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the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
In six pages this paper considers the protagonists Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and Edna Pontillier's self quests in On the Road a...
In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...
Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...
lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...
and accepts her even after she confides her sexual past to him. However, Amir never confesses his sin to anyone - not to his fath...
viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...
saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...
that he too is a man like Stoksie, but the reference to Stoksies children again reveals his immaturity. Referring to the babies in...
When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...
many of the same factors that Wright presented in the life of Bigger. Baldwin writes, for example, that he himself is a product o...
man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...
original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...
of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...
that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...
is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...
Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...
are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...
one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...
of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...