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Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Miss Emily as Illustrated by her House

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

Chopin, Faulkner, and Jewett - The Use of Foreshadowing

setting up the ending in this way through foreshadowing, it would seem to "come out of nowhere", and would be a jarring fit with t...

Houses in Literature and their Symbolic Value

and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...

Symbols and Themes in “A Rose for Emily”

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Effects Of Hypothyroidism

a sense of low self image just as readily. With the prevalence of at least some weight gain being one of the most commonly experi...

Comparative Analysis of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

In five pages the tone and style of these short stories are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are no other...

Comparative Analysis of How Mood, Atmosphere, and Place Are Used in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

His soul seemed to melt...He had never thought of loving her...When he rescued her and restored her, he was a doctor, and she was ...

Protagonists and Their Internal Struggles in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner and 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

In 5 pages this paper compares these stories in terms of the internal struggles of each protagonist. There are no other sources l...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Death and Sex Symbolism and Themes in 'Patriotism' by Yukio Mishima and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

Throughout the story, the reader is forced to determine just which gender Emily actually represents. Additionally, it becomes cle...

Willilam Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

Faulkner, Hemingway and Hawthorne's Strategy

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

Compromise of 1850/3 Speeches

perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...

Island of Terror: Battle of Iwo Jima

wife that said she should not plan for his return. This shows how strong and determined he was to do the job that the Japanese mil...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

Villains in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

Metamorphosis of Change in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...

Congreve and Pope: Resistance to Marriage

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...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

The Way of the World by William Congreve

particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....

Different Interpretations of Settlers in the New World

A great deal of insight about equality emerges, and later, this would be the basis for the creation of the United States of Americ...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

The Diversity Toolkit

people, is not comprised of "20 percent people of color" (Sonnenschein, 1999; 1). Considering that this work was written almost 10...