YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Novels and the American Dream
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most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years...
hopefulness here in Comala; instead, the air is heavy with an oppressive guilt that is positively stifling. It soon becomes readi...
were emphatically not members of the aristocracy that it was almost impossible for them to transcend their conditioning and upbrin...
is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...
Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...
novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...
of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...
for. When Pug was about to resume command of the U.S.S. California, he was, in a sense, home: "The iron deck underfoot felt good....
music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...
of Denver and Sethes children, and many others.This establishes the idea that family is very important and thus we can assume that...
additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...
everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of decei...
In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...
a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...
come about. At the same time, the authors depiction of the Indians is less than kind and while that is true, one can say that her ...
section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...
"alienation has especially come to signify the difficult relation between the individual and his sense of difference and distance ...
For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...
"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...
up by identifying Buck as a dog, but throughout the course of the text, the complex dog-hero is amazingly human in terms of his pe...
purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...
evil, the insurance company. Rudy faces an experienced lawyer, Leo F. Drummond, and five of his associates in the courtroom scenes...
had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
people and the reader often finds himself shaking his head in amazement at what these people had to endure in order for this proje...
Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...
his life -- and that of everyone elses, as well -- had become a mere mockery of human existence. "Winstons body dealt with his fr...
that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...