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In a paper consisting of five pages the characters of Offred in The Handmaid's Tale and Bone in Bastard Out of Carolina are contra...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

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

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

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

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

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

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

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...

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

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

eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

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