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a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...

to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal explanation virtually impossible. The problem wit...

Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

in the story when Aeneas has arrived in the realm of Turnus. Turnus was engaged to marry a woman but the womans mother has chosen ...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

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...

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

In this thesis orientated essay consisting of six pages a comparison of two very different characters John Proctor and Abigail Wil...

In four pages this essay discusses Kate Chopin's novella in terms of how the protagonist develops throughout. There are 2 other s...

In six pages this paper presents an analysis of the protagonist featured in Stephen Crane's Maggie A Girl of the Streets. There ...

In twelve pages the self concept and behavior of Jim in the novel Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad are analyzed. There is an outline con...

distainfully resists him, declaring, "Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable, / T...

In five pages this research paper analyzes the shrewishness of Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew comedy by William Shakespeare....

This essay consists of eleven pages and examines society's treatment of women in the female characterizations featured in the lite...