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In five pages this paper examines how short stories depict love in terms of similarities and differences found in Susan Minot's 'L...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...

do that. Dave needs to understand himself well enough to determine that it is actually he who is flawed, and not society....

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

this keeps them interested even more, thus providing us with the dual nature of formal religion as it teaches one thing but does a...

not to fake for them things that you dont know about them or that they might not have done" (An Interview with Margaret Drabble). ...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

Carthage queen, to fall in love with Aeneas. The entire story of Dido and Aeneas brims with fire imagery that demonstrates both Di...

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...

the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

that which was rightfully hers. This was a very grave endeavor during these ancient times and serves to illustrate just one small ...

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

be seen as an unavoidable force, which we are destined to fight against, but will ultimately fail. If we look at Sophocles writing...

she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

to catch up with and crush idealistic young people afraid of occurrences over which they seem to have no control" (Hynes 265). "L...

living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

from high school as "president and co-valedictorian of the senior class at Shillington High School. During that summer, Updike beg...

Delphin by the Forum for a clandestine meeting. This Delphin Slade happened to be engaged to Alida at the time. Alida says that sh...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...