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the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...
regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...
reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...
are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...
charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...
Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...
it would be remiss not to include it in an essay such as this. All Christians follow the Holy Bible, the Old Testament and the Ne...
of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...
it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...
are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....
As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...
as they face the discrimination with the power of togetherness, as a family. Much of the play also focuses on embracing on...
she has given up. She is dejected and withdrawn, lying on her bed despondent and weeping. This depiction highlights Medeas femin...
power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
She states, "Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good" (Gilman). By the end of he...
To an admiring Bog! (846). The subject matter features a person who feels inwardly lonely who does not wish to advertise h...
legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...
errors, and so kind to people that I always thought of him as a sort of saint" (Hemingway 88). This is clearly a very high claim t...
The thematic representation of the American dream in two literary genres (1 poem and 2 short stories) is discussed in 9 pages. Th...
Acquiescing to pressure from his father to also become a member of the Imperial Service, Orwell joined Burmas Imperial Police in 1...
her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...
1918, but there are no existent early drafts until the 1919 version, which was published at this time in a Cambridge edition of La...
read and understood these books also feel somewhat superior to those who have not (Bridges, et al.). In addition, several of the t...
truly a place of bliss where nothing but a good and wonderful existence greeted Adam and Eve each and every day. However, there w...