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fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

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...

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

the community as an oddity, "a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 433). She ...

extent to which she, as an unchanging artifact of her own times, is overpowered by death despite struggling against it at all poin...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

in 1892, tells the story of a woman who is diagnosed with a psychological disorder and is subjected to the prevailing treatments o...

research paper on Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper". I have chosen this story primarily because of its aesthetic interest to me, in t...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

to my mind)--perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick!" (Gilman). Because her...

loves to write, and obviously sneaks off to do because we are reading about it. Writing is her passion and while it is seen as an ...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

This paper looks at sanity and madness in Gilman's narrative The Yellow Wallpaper, and explores the concept that for the heroine, ...

An analysis consisting of five pages compares the ways in which three protagonists attempt to improve their lives. The works exam...

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

A paper which discusses the life, work and theories of the writer Charlotte Gilman, and looks specifically at the role of feminism...

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

In ten pages this paper examines how children were idealized in the romantic writings of Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Charlotte...

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

his moment in nature (Wakefield 354). But while the first stanza ends the implied assumption that the poet need not concern hims...

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...

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...