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by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

not lost./ He would the sea were held at any cost/ Across from Middleburgh to Orwell town./ At money-changing he could make a crow...

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

In five pages twelve lines of this famous tale are analyzed in terms of how it provides a true love commentary and represents an e...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

Chaucer mentions that her forehead is showing, which is often considered to be a characteristic of a person who was well bred and ...

the Pardoner, himself a representative of the Church. The Seven Deadly Sins are known as pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lu...

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

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

host is asking if the next can outdo the story offered by the Knight. In the following lines we see the words and the general per...

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

If so, he is giving an analogy to say that it is impossible. It is with this presumption that Chaucer creates his religious charac...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...