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that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

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

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...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

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

of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...

Muslim traded his slave-master surname for X and began prescribing militance as the only cure for his peoples ills. Then a pilgri...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

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...

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

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...

of him, his semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more" (Shakespeare 202). Hamlet is resigne...

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

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...