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retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

In five pages this short story is analyzed in terms of perspective, setting, tone, style, and symbolism. Seven sources are cited ...

the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...

the most frightening short stories ever written. Jackson begins with a description of a gorgeous summer day and subtly weaves a we...

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 ...

In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...

person aside from being mothers and wives. In the following paper we examine the symbolic nature of the sea in Chopins book, illus...