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Essays 1981 - 2010
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
both married before their husbands had died and left them widows. In the first section of the story, Wharton gives background prof...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...
him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...
spelling of swor (to swoor) and the change from "hire" to "hir." In addition, though of the usable participle "to" clarifies the ...
as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...
banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...
now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...
Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...
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...
the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
common to the Old South. And, it is in this essentially foundation of control that we see who Emily is and see how she is clearly ...
one year, what it is that women truly want from a man. For whatever reason, the Queen has chosen to give the man a choice - death...
Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...
formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him" (An Occurrence...). The third person point of view is d...
more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...
Oscar often refers to "filthy lucre" (Lawrence 922). His mother explains that luck is "what causes you to have money. If youre l...
that a cultural connection is thereby forged between sex and virtually every aspect of human experience" (Greenbaum 53). ...
according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...
Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...
The Ministers Black Veil Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil is a short story that describes evil and depravity as developmental ...
In six pages dramas by Wenders and Brecht are compared with this 1924 story by Franz Kafka in a consideration of meaning and symbo...
of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...
attention of the white community and gets him an invitation to deliver the speech at a gathering of the towns leading white citize...