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

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...

and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...

finds the novelties of society to hold any importance. She is obviously not pretentious and she is not perhaps wealthy for she doe...

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...