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experience of slavery (Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) By Olaudah Equiano bvbooks.asp?Bo...

Goldings Lord of the Flies, for example, gives a view of civilised society which is by no means optimistic. He takes a group of ch...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

writers overall mystique, utilizing such literary techniques as dialogue, imagery, figurative language and interpretation. ...

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...

her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...

paid directly from an individual or a group of individuals to a private company or individual, which then provides either manpower...

two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...

whole. Bosha begins the collection of criticisms and assessments by presenting an introduction to Cheever, with some reflections ...

era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

and was embodied in the character of Francis. However, to view a master of the surprise ending one must look toward Fyodor Dosto...

he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...

she has the red girls attention, she dumps Gwen. She is always looking for the greener grass on the other side, and...

Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

of Chiltern - although he is a man of power and a man admired by many because he is a well-bred human, he nonetheless hides a terr...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

they move to a town that Joe commences to alter. He opens a store and becomes incredibly prosperous, but insists that Janie never ...

limited at best. The average American will probably not ever venture off her shores. Often, the more technologically advanced cult...

her choice of subject matter. She acknowledged the callous dismissal of her contemporaries, who labeled her material as "womans s...

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

daddy, you bastard, Im through" (Plath). Throughout the poem, which is full of Nazi imagery, she has compared herself to a Jew, a...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

bombs on the city that they created a firestorm-a self-perpetuating inferno that destroyed the city almost complete. The worst par...

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

it up" (Hurston). By focusing on poor urban blacks instead of writing about the African-American doctors, dentists, and lawyers, ...

this growing bandwagon is up for dispute, however. U.S. Labor Department statistics cited the loss of more than forty-six hundred...

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

his mother. Sheppard fails to see the depth of the boys grief, and Norton hangs himself in despair. His suicide is an attempt to b...