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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...

He returns to the witch who then tells him he can have an ugly and faithful wife in her, or a beautiful and unfaithful woman. He a...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...

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

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

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

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

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

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

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...

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

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

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...

to indicate that the students are not gaining a positive education in life through learning how to be moralistic or ethical in the...

The Chaucer we envisage here might regard this tale as valuable for its religious elements, for its depiction of a valiant woman w...