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time and thus see the attitudes of Twain. First we see that Huck is very disturbed by the fact that Jim has runaway. Jim is truly ...

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

difference between the two representations. When one is cast forward by way of determinism, it is as though one has absolutely no...

being mindful of his station. Agamemnon is the king of the Achaeans, and Nestor has no designs on Agamemnons position. He does w...

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

clearly in the beginning of the novel, before she meets Ninny, in the following lines from Flaggs novel: "This morning, as they dr...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

is reflected in The Awakening. No woman could have any greater calling than to be a good wife and mother. In fact, that was the ...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...

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

one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...

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...

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

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

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

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...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....