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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...

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

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

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

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...

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

jealousy. His inherent nature does not want him to believe such lies. We see this throughout the story as he is constantly confuse...

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

95 A.D. (Classics Resources, 2002). Quintilians advice to teachers still holds true today and offers general guidelines that can b...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

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...

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...