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tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...
at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...
is told that Sofia is a woman who does not know her place. She should not be allowed to talk back to her husband, or state her own...
who has always studied hard and done what is right in order to get ahead. He has gone to college and is a successful lawyer. In es...
who thinks about her own weaknesses, yet also truly sees what she perhaps should be. We note how Clarissa, though strong and se...
This essay presents the argument that Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel is a sympathetic, sensitive character who is ...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...
wild state Enkidu represents the noble savage, the noble animal that is pure of spirit and strong. He was to balance out the negat...
the favor of the spirit world, of the gods, and yet they both approach it differently. Fast Horse is presumptuous and arrogant whi...
farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...
adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...
self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...
Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...
to others had amused him, but it was disheartening when used against himself" (Forster, chapter 5). We are constantly remi...
small boy, but to insure my familys survival, my own birth" (29). Through the next several years, Dana returns to the Weylin plan...
even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...
of empathy or sympathy for mankind. He is not a man; he is a monster. And yet, he is a confused monster. "Ah, the unfairness...
life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
to insure a good life back in China. The strain between the two begins to show, however, as May-ying criticizes Chan Sam when he ...
provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...
endeavors to avoid such a punishment by doing an exemplary job. Nevertheless, trouble develops and Billy seeks the advice of an ol...
make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...
Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...
woman going, but she was not happy. There is much evidence of this. Susie, the dead fourteen year old is the narrator and observes...
this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...
dreaming all their lives for one thing or another the arrival of the insurance money is something that makes the possibility of ac...