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try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

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...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...

and overcome her family and poverty. Andrea is in search of self definition at this point, though she is not consciously aware of ...

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

Phuong. In this we see he has no real love for Phuong and he has no real desires other than simple comfort. He is unhappy with the...

to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessor...

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...