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Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

variety of educational models that underscore learning as an element of individual nature as well as cultural and social variables...

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...

on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

another prosperous sulfur merchant, culminated in their marriage and the birth of a daughter (Coppolillo 73). But whatever domest...

uses his videotapes to overstep personal boundaries with women. Important to note in his interactions with women is his revelatio...

the school to lawsuits by parents disagreeing with the teaching. In essence, public education was cut adrift. Teachers and...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...