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is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

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

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

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

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...