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of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

opined that, in this work, the tragic and the supernatural are synonymous: "The tragedy of Macbeth thus lies in the attempt of a m...

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

his own resulting suicide because he believes his life is not worth living (which, in many ways, parallels Clarissas own ambivalen...

unfortunate accident, and they do run into the notorious Misfit. Both the grandmother and the Misfit are concerned with the quest...

they have somehow missed the spiritual dimension which they purport to seek, and have been sidetracked instead into seeing materia...

fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) donqu2.html). He was beaten, and he returned home where he approaches Sancho and pleads with him...

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

the Introduction of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Seamus Deane presents the idea that the walk is one of the novels m...

third lines go together; here the poet wants to know why Tantalus is "baited by the fickle fruit." For those who dont know Greek m...

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

just like you say. Only when you dont have no dinner, it aint" (Steinbeck). He never says he would love some food or a meal or any...

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

as the world is filled with poison and chaos and destruction. They meet Oryx at a time when they are perhaps struggling to find so...

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretched to give back to life the love it gives her" (OBrien Bi...

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

that they are constantly losing, for many losers keep plugging away. And, if they constantly plug away, with good intentions and p...

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...

It took place in the south, as did most of OConnors stories, and showed the ignorance of southern whites by using a certain predil...