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manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

any sustenance for her. This brings in the thematic element of the shawl in a very powerful way for Magda would suck on the shawl,...

itself to help a fellow man who had suffered loss either directly or indirectly from the tragedy. The contractor so highly regard...

father, who dismisses them as "trash" with no further explanation (Shelley 51). Frankenstein says that if his father had bothered ...

things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

that set up the story. Frankenstein appears some little way into the novel, when he is picked up by Waltons ship, emaciated and dy...

as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and ration...

can all kick the habit. It is this hope that perhaps propels him to continue on. It seems as if Rents is walking a tightrope betw...

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

"Dont worry your pretty little head about it" and sending her to bed with milk and cookies. He treats her like a child. We also b...

one of waiting. Is this what man was meant to do? In Waiting for Godot, playwright Samuel Beckett explores these ideas as well a...

work and survive, this dream is simple and very powerful Throughout the Great Depression people left their land, when it was use...

or information that does not come from the system and as such they are clearly oppressed and forbidden to be human beings. From ...

one gets the understanding that bravery and courage had nothing to do with being strong in a violent sense. It had nothing to do w...

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

answers both in the affirmative and negative to this question, primarily due to Holden reactions towards Jane (Takeuchi "Salinger...

lives, because it cuts across all the important dimensions: community, family and work (Sklar and Dublin, 2002). Power is also use...

Secondly, as to themes, Bradstreet grounded her religious inspiration not only in Puritan orthodoxy but also in the wonders and be...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

Patricia Highsmiths novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" is the story of Tom Ripley, a young man whose looks can be very deceiving. Ri...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

all of his previously held values as vulgar absurdities, incompatible with the reality of his experiences. The existentialist them...

the laws regarding the firstborn, substituting something for an animal or a person (New International Version, Exod. 113:13; 34:20...

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

to emerge in the stories to be analyzed. The first major theme to emerge in the stories to be analyzed is the effect of power ineq...