SEARCH RESULTS

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in ...

the change from their boring and traditional lives as parents and spouses. They are independent creatures in a society that does n...

character. Looking at both works shows belies Martin Kearneys arguments and demonstrates that Joyce had an altogether different po...

of trance, or opens himself to whatever psychic power he possesses at these times. But lets go back to the beginning. One of the ...

earlier life to the "unguessable country of marriage" (7). As the reader continues, though, it becomes evident that the hope sh...

"dances" out to the fig trees each day to check on their ripeness (Ripe Figs). When she finds them to be "little hard, green marb...

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribut...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

She has been given the opportunity, or so she thinks, to finally live a life that is solely hers. There is a powerful sense of fre...

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

doesnt blame nor does she come to resent either her husband or the reverend, but instead she reveals an extraordinary amount of co...

In 5 pages this paper examines the short story's structure in terms of building the suspenseful foreboding and the plot that contr...

with the famous line: "None of them knew the color of the sky" (PG). The introduction is chilling. Why would no one know the color...

In five pages the symbolism featured in this 1987 short stories' collection is analyzed. Three sources are cited in the bibliogra...

In six pages this paper compares this short story's major themes with the life of Kate Chopin. Nine sources are cited in the bibl...

In 3 pages the limitations of freedom are examined within the context of Hester Prynne's social bondage in Hawthorne's novel The S...

In eleven pages Lee K. Abbott's quirky exploration of human nature in the short stories collection Living After Midnight is examin...

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

In 6 pages the theme of scientific experimentation as it is represented in both of these short stories are analyzed. There are 6 ...

the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...

In four pages the ways in which Hester Prynne and Huckleberry Finn symbolically represented social conflict are examined in this c...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the social restrictions imposed upon freedom as revealed within Douglass's Narrative of the L...

his physician father to perform a Caesarean on a pregnant squaw. Dr. Adams describes the serious medical situation in clinical, m...

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...