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He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...

and quite different from the well known dystopian view of Aldous Huxley. In Brave New World, which was written more than a decade ...

his store, shed find him behind the counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and...

notions about Cuba, her grandmother and Cuban life. Lourdes has to cope with Pilars attitude, such as when she mocks her adopted c...

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

people in his life one can see why he is in such a labyrinth of personal issues, trying to come to terms with all of it. And at th...

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...

Amber begins to grow up and learn and see the world in a very kind way, thinking more about others than herself in the end. She is...

smooth and convincing as he states the following: "If they had politicians back in those days, they said, Gimme, just like all of ...

A 5 page character study and summation of Goethe’s Faust. Bibliography lists 4 sources....

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

repulsive in appearance and Satan was transformed by his own evil, becoming increasing ugly as the poem proceeds. As this suggests...

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

also alienates Sethes daughter Denver, who hates him because Beloved is interested in him; Denver wants to keep Beloved to herself...

or knowledge which is essential to him if he is to complete his tasks and become a true hero....

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

for their ethical behavior. He identified six stages which were classified in three levels: pre-conventional, conventional and pos...

an affair. The whole family was corrupt and unforgiving, but most importantly their downfall came at their very own hands because...

sends through the voices of her characters. Stowe is a master at crafting conversations and employing just the right words for he...

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

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

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

Ishmael as he relates to Ahab and his quest for the whale. The second section examines the survival of Ishmael. The last section o...

life of misery which was to befall me" (Defoe). Crusoes defiance of his father relates also to his willfulness toward God, who, ...

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...