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

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...

the pages how very fragile the fledgling country was - but ultimately how adept its leader. McCullough opens 1776 in Great...

most memorable stories and characters in American literature, and they remain popular to this day. This paper considers perhaps hi...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...

their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...

of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...

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...

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

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

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

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

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...