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heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

in anarchy wherein a lack of rules in a society would lead to utter chaos and the ultimate destruction of order in the world. Sy...

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

that pushes her into insanity (Gilman). John is both a man and a doctor, and so presents a strong authority figure. When she firs...

at the rights and role of women in Palestine during the time of Jesus, and interpret his reported words within that context. The...

object of desire, but here she seems shy and even a bit hostile. In his book on Ingres, Robert Rosenblum describes one of Ingres o...

be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...

to the plays because they were written during the time of the British Commonwealth, a time when the very nation has lost its Empir...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

in the way different characters are presented, as well as beauty in different meanings at different levels. It may be argued tha...

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

property rather than fellow human beings. Tourist information on St. Thomas indicates that St. Thomas Market Square is today a "...

for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

draws a moments air independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an...

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

(in the context of marriage), religion cannot be sexual. "Sexuality may be spiritual, but spirituality may not be sexual, it seems...

image they could understand and comprehend. They would envision her in clothing they comprehended and related to, images of heaven...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me" (Matt. 26:10-11). Jesus goes on ...

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...