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freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

and one from their devoted black servant Dilsey Gibson and read like the gospels of the Bible in that observations of actual event...

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

are pure creatures and seeing them run or even trot, or perhaps even exist, makes this young man incredibly happy and content. The...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

closer to home, meaning that the consequences of the war are more far-reaching than they are to Nick, his counterpart. "In Another...

natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...

Color One author suggests that "It was to be expected that as primitive man developed the weaving art, the introduction of ...

observation. The pear tree is a very powerful teacher for Janie. "Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in ...

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...