YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Four Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 421 - 450
books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had the broken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere; and i...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
the end are shown to have empty, meaningless lives. "It was the very perfection of quiet absorption of good living, good drinking,...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
not been fulfilled as she soon learned that many of the columns in the paper originated from a central syndication network and the...
by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...
her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
stopped, at least for Neddy Merrill. It seems that for those like Neddy, money must be had at all costs, but he had a problem too,...
he managed to illustrate some of the ridiculous restrictions and excessive emotional burdens that various religions placed on the ...
she formally received the Valmonde name, although according to the locals, "The prevailing belief was that she had been purposely ...
Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...
who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...
prior to the approaching storm but soon becomes unconsciously aware of her longing for passion when she feels oppressed under the ...
the condition of the nineteenth century woman in marriage, and has been more recently rediscovered and recognized as an overtly fe...
especially in inner city conditions, is a culture that relies heavily on community. Like other cultures, and unlike the majority o...
third person (not a character in the story)" (Peterson elements.html). From this basic understanding of the element of point of...
it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...
Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...
seen in literature of her time, but clearly something that existed in the real world. She was fortunate to have married a man w...
Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...
with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...