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to death. Proctor, who places his pride above his life, chooses to die rather than comprise his principles so Abigail, though she ...

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

to look at his own veiled prejudices if only through the eyes of his bigoted mother. Says Mrs. Chestney, in a typical outburst th...

about how he/she appears to others and later on, the child develops a sense of sexual identity) Young adulthood/intimacy v ...

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

famine as being the direct manifestation of her conflict with Oberon) and the madness itself is generated by the very human desire...

expects of herself, involves being the keeper of the history of the family. There is likely many elements within her character tha...

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

enthralling" (1995). The film is a romance, but it avoids the trap of being formulaic; often films of this kind rely "more upon ac...

and Othellos skin color. Othello is a Moor and is dark skinned while Iago is an ordinary Venetian. This is something that comes up...

events because one parent or the other couldnt take them there. Most of all it would mean that there would be a constant tug of w...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...

Despite her poor reception by those that disagree with her philosophically, Costello makes many valid points about animal rights. ...

and unknown. Given that he has no past, no present and no future, its obvious that Bartleby is not a character but a symbol. Wha...

describe the way in which society considers those who are different. The psychological construct of the Other is applied to the pe...

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

name is ironic in that Beneatha is beneath no one in her family. Her intellect and her passion for knowledge are unsurpassed. Sh...

of the men involved. The men want things in absolutes, black and white; the women can tolerate ambiguity. In Noras case, things ar...

In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...

of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...