YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Characters Who Are Trapped
Essays 1981 - 2010
Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...
and unknown. Given that he has no past, no present and no future, its obvious that Bartleby is not a character but a symbol. Wha...
describe the way in which society considers those who are different. The psychological construct of the Other is applied to the pe...
(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...
the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...
lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...
novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...
name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...
of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...
In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...
of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...
way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...
events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...
hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...
young men. One of the great ironies of the play is that Willy has sold the boys a perverted version of the American Dream. He has ...
literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...
Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...
marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...
a specific group, for example, the stationary items are referred to as school and office items. This reflect the broad appeal that...
not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....
the safety needs (Maslows theory of motivation - Hierarchy of needs, 2009). Glen has already fulfilled the first two levels: he ha...
the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...
when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her" (Chopin). Her husband...
group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...
Here, for instance, are a few lines from the opening scene, in which a pivotal event in Nettas life is taking place: shes watching...
when the play opens, he has no knowledge that he has actually done so; he believes he was successful in avoiding the prophesy. Th...
girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...
arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...