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Essays 511 - 540
The idea of sacrifice is the focus of attention in the context of this thoughtful analysis of this Dickens tale. Darnay and Carton...
her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...
told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...
told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...
constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...
from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...
how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...
relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...
but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...
women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...
or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...
most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...
away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
issues of courtesy will be evaluated in order to determine whether or not invoking its precepts is a help or hindrance in civilize...
In five pages this paper evaluates whether the honor code and courtesy are used righteously or self righteously in these Medieval ...
The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...
In six pages this paper compares Seamus Heaney's and Lucien Dean Pearson's translations of the Medieval epic tale. There are thre...
In six pages this paper examines Moliere's satirical morality tale and its open theater impact. Four sources are cited in the bib...