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could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

barbaric Native-American society. It was his hybrid nature that made Hawkeye somewhat of a cultural chameleon, but also m...

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

revealed. The reader is introduced to Marlowe as he is about to call on a potential client, the elderly, but very rich, General ...

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhab...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

the Chorus suggests that it could be the work of the gods (Sophocles). Rather than consider someone elses viewpoint, Creon begins ...

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

based on actual wants or desires. The effect of this societal pressure causes her to refuse help and support which might otherwise...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

not a political drama, but the battle of wills between two family members -- Creon and his niece, Antigone. It does not take much ...

she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...

in terms of black and white, but this should not necessarily be construed as a racial connotation. He enjoyed the tranquility of ...

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

of Chiltern - although he is a man of power and a man admired by many because he is a well-bred human, he nonetheless hides a terr...

And yet, it is apparent that Okonkwo behaves in this manner because he is filled with a great deal of fear. Above all else, he fe...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...

the old and sick. There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or fri...

heros funeral and will have forever the respect of his people, who will remember him in their folktales. This is the singular goa...

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

everything leads back to itself without ever answering anything. The story, and the life of Billy, is nothing more than an endless...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

seems only to be related to her nature as a reference point. Mr. Caulfield is never seen in the novel, and there is little inform...

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