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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...

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...

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...

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...

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,...

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:...

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

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

all, concerned with business profits, not with the welfare of his employees. The manager wastes little time in reminding Gregor o...

In five pages the social satire portrayal of these characters and how Shakespeare used them to poke fun at the elite's pretentions...

In five pages Octavius Caesar, Enobarbus, Cleopatra, and Antony are analyzed in order to determine which emerges as the most tragi...

is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...

of one individual, Lipsha. One critic notes that this novel "explores more or less three general areas which constitutes its plot:...

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

of Tartuffes virtues. Orgon tells Cl?ante that when he first saw Tartuffe, they were in church: "He came to church each day, wit...

require him to act as an arrow in the bow of his God. Unlike his contemporaries, Ezeulu exercises great compassion and demonstra...

portrays him as being. Jacks childhood environment is riddled with dysfunctional elements, everything from domestic violence to ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

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

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...