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

breathing hard and fast now but he wasnt really breathing because there wasnt any air passing through his nose. He didnt have a n...

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

foundation for the story through an examination of the region itself, thus perhaps further adding to a con approach to the charact...

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...

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

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

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...

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...

who scorned Bartlebys oddness, comes to allow for the differences that set each person apart from another. Ritter supports this n...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

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 ...

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...

sons that they need to look good, be friendly, and essentially to be what he is not. He has always possessed many different notion...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and ones own husband, assures friends and relatives that ...

a room that "opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! but John would...

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

In five pages William Shakespeare's Hamlet is examined in an analysis of what is represented by the melancholy character of his pr...

In five pages this paper examines how William Faulkner's character Col. John Sartoris is presented somewhat differently in an anal...