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complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...

his mind tends to wander, that he has forgotten that the boy who helped him a few years earlier is off at school. Mary explains ho...

accompanied by his son, Ferdinand, the heir to his throne; Antonio, the Duke of Milan; Sebastian, the brother of Alonzo; and Gonza...

which are primarily told through an oral tradition, combining the blues with the cultural wisdoms. "The blues are first represente...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

all her transitions into adulthood. She feels she is special, because of her religion, and is, in many ways, without a strong p...

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

Many countries across the world offer universal health care. This is especially prevalent in Europe, the UK, and UK possessions, e...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

to those themes" (Mayo 231). Another author indicates that "Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye emphasizes the de-culturing effects o...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

forbidden to them, they have set about creating something else to be" (Morrison 52). For example, Sula would go to Nels house to s...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...

as dark and as evil as could be imagined." This could perhaps be followed with a statement arguing that "this is exactly the case ...

himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

selected one thing (one person, one book, she is not specific) and close her attention to all others. However, the "Soul" is not...

of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...

lived with her before her death and that Sethe sought her out after escaping from slavery. The presence of the baby girls ghost ...

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...