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what they want, remains universal and could easily fit into a contemporary drama or comedy. Lysistrata tells her fellows that "We ...

it would be remiss not to include it in an essay such as this. All Christians follow the Holy Bible, the Old Testament and the Ne...

of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...

it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...

are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

this suggests, comedy provides numerous benefits. When the famous Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean lay on his deathbed, it is reput...

you not, such as you are, get your following together and sail beyond the seas? Did you not from your a far country carry off a lo...

fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

frame. Archilde says: "One had only to go into daylight to realize how preposterous such things were" (McNickle, 1935, p. 106). ...

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

regard to the acceptance of reality, issues of morality and, perhaps above all, the concept of divine judgment and human guilt. I...

Chandler was famous for his evocative descriptions of L.A.; the heat and light, the flowers, traffic, noise and above all the vivi...

This sets the stage for a pessimistic story, despite any optimistic elements. This sense of pessimism is also one that is very u...

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

charities was remarkable. She was coming into her own, moving out of the extremely heavy shadow cast by the royal family (particu...

bound to engage. While mythological women were strong of mind and spirit, they were not allowed to express their inner most being...

of the novel is concerned with conflict in one form or another: the overt differences between the fictionalised East Europe of Sto...

a significance in the fact that precisely at midnight on August 15, 1947, the actual date of independence, two babies would come i...

become separate" (p.48). An interest point is made as Fromm investigates erotic love. Today, many equate eroticism with romanticis...

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

or morality/values. In addition, Freud also theorized that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual ...

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

(Ruth 1:3). The sons married Moab women but about ten years later, both sons died (Ruth 1:3). Ruth was one of the widows of Naomis...

generation, perceiving life and important family relationships very differently. They do not come from the same position, in terms...

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved ...

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...