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she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...
battle, but this passive character allows others to control his fate. One cannot deny that Macbeth expresses a unique fascinatio...
on the world scene. And, we know that the one individual who could perhaps sway him from his innocent and noble ways is Gatsby him...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...
she develops the illusion of her identity slowly vanishes. She is slowly seen as an intelligent woman who desires more from life t...
Emmas polar opposite. She has not been born to gentility, but has been raised to be so by the sponsorship of the Campbells. In ord...
is the assistant to an assistant. Hap lacks even the smallest spark of introspection or self-analysis, but rather is the embodimen...
one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...
the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...
in the right way. In order to do this, however, one must be able to determine, using ones reason, what those right ways and right ...
tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...
and do this? This provides an example of a moral individual who is placed in a slightly unmoral situation. In this regard,...
God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...
finds the novelties of society to hold any importance. She is obviously not pretentious and she is not perhaps wealthy for she doe...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...
uses his videotapes to overstep personal boundaries with women. Important to note in his interactions with women is his revelatio...
be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
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...
feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...
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...
And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...
their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...
When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...
all the players in the love triangle. But, they are also more than that. All three characters embody some of the ideology that was...
of what the Greek gods did to human beings when offended. Niobe was a proud mother of many children and she bragged that she had m...