YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Creating the American Character
Essays 1891 - 1920
of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...
I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...
the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...
different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...
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...
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,...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
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...
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:...
ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...
the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...
the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...
the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...
leaving only what is possible, even where it may be improbable in order to find the solution. In catching the culprit it is also w...
of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...
Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...
servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...
but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...
preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...
to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal explanation virtually impossible. The problem wit...
in terms of theory, there are important factors related to interpretation and use (or not) of measurement types, noting that there...
affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...
the pages how very fragile the fledgling country was - but ultimately how adept its leader. McCullough opens 1776 in Great...
Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...
tells her that if she does marry this man, Morris, she will never receive any money from him, her father. Up till this point Cath...