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like Poes "The Casks of Amontillado," Joyces "The Dead" contains many "Gothic themes and motifs" (1). For one thing, the time of t...

real motivation or interest. Therefore, to have his body match the way that he has felt about himself for a long time does not gre...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

criminal is so small, few would talk about it. Another way to look at the situation is that the author hones in on one story in ...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

Western States Book Award for Fiction and the Walt Whitman Award (The Iguana Killer [Review]). Interestingly enough, Rios spoke Sp...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

about alcohol. The narrator describes that -- if her parents ever drank alcoholic beverages -- it was outside their home (Munro 43...

fundamentally selfish and mean-spirited. In fact, OConnor repeatedly demonstrates to the reader how similar Fortune and his grandd...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner, an "old south" family that remembered the Civil War - the familys patriarch, William Clark Falkn...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

In 5 pages the young protagonists in Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' short story and Crane's Maggie A Girl on the Streets novel are con...

The opposites and dualities that appear in this short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne are analyzed in 5 pages with Puritan ethics and...

OConnor utilizes the central theme of Christianity is as a subtle, symbolic plot to convert her readers, whom she had envisioned a...