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In nine pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its symbolism and portrayal of themes including the nature of manhood, life, and ...
having their baby. His act was accomplished so quietly, no one knew it had happened despite the fact he was lying on the bunk abov...
A short story analysis consisting of three pages is presented in terms of the relationship between father and son and the elements...
William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...
of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...
the spider and it is true for man as well. Obviously, he doesnt actually say this specifically but he instead illustrates it thro...
a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility" (42). As this suggests, an ...
political activist organization known as Sinn Fein. Each chapter is subdivided in such a way as to concentrate on a specific aspe...
to oppression. This is evident in the work of Anne Moody, who roughly lived and experienced many of the same situations as did Jor...
the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...
and it was this heart-felt emotion that elevated her works from ordinary to the ranks of extraordinary. Music had long play...
She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...
fact that the book was originally rejected by publisher T.S. Eliot presumably because of the grim and hopeless picture which was p...
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...
short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...
won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...
vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...
negative aspect to this competition, or that they would sabotage one anothers efforts out of jealousy....
not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...
his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...
the end, ones heart may win over ones intellect. In Diane Ackermans poem, which may very well be a modern retelling of...
beneath, the concept of such themes will satisfy most readers and explicators of fiction, there may be hidden, deeper meanings in ...
that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...
smooth stone/ That overlays the pile; and, from a bag/ All white with flour, the dole of village dames,/ He drew his scraps and fr...
"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...
David Ives "All in the Timing" is a series of one act plays which tell the story of different situations all with a comical and...
of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...
Willy Loman in Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. Of course, unlike Loman, it is Gregor who is given the raw deal even though he ...