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of one individual, Lipsha. One critic notes that this novel "explores more or less three general areas which constitutes its plot:...

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

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

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

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

make him sick in actuality. To relieve his masters distress, Mosca tells the lady that her husband is riding off in a gondola with...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

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

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...

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

While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...

Barber makes one fact exceptionally clear. That is that the characters of the men who have held the office of the U.S. Presidency...