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Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Chaucer mentions that her forehead is showing, which is often considered to be a characteristic of a person who was well bred and ...

back" (Norton 85). The Tales themselves have a General Prologue and also a Prologue which precedes each individual tale. The Prolo...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

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

told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

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 ...

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...

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

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...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...

relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...

but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...