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These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...