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Macbeth was elected King in preference to Duncans own son, who was considered...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...

/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

like a tragedy at this point, but we are provided with simple comedic elements throughout. For example, there is the character of ...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

was irreparable. In I, Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the protagonist is the misunderstood Tituba, a real-life woman who had b...

the simplicity of the life that he foresees for himself, as well as its self-sufficiency. The sense of solitude that Yeats create...

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

interrelationship of human beings with the forces of nature. He mentions that his own growth as a mature individual allows him to ...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...