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of the females role in society, which confined women exclusively to the home and the roles of wives and mothers, lingered well int...

reader with an insiders view on the Southern culture of the era because narrator frequently describes the reactions of the townspe...

This essay offers interpretation of Hawthorne's short story " Young Goodman Brown." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

This paper concludes that viewers do expect story lines that are less than realistic, but of course, the cases and predicaments de...

story "Grit" portrays the intense conflict that arises between Glen, the manager of the Black Beauty Minerals Plant located in Mob...

standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...

own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

there is the suggestion that Elsie is a good mother. OHara writes that the "only thing," that Elsie "held against" her children, i...

he used to own and wear while he was working. The fact that Tom wore a tuxedo while performing suggests that he played at the best...

life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. It is dull enough to confuse the eye in followin...

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...

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

as "tiny jewels glowing behind the cover," which weave a "tapestry of transformed lives." This point is exemplified by the first s...

barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and ther...

to assist him in his most basic needs, provides the kind of care and understanding required by the dying and increasingly isolated...

of Brown. It is essentially natural worshipping, however, with many different types of people coming together in a more ritualisti...

as Grange becomes unhappy with his simple life. He leaves behind this wife and child in order to find something better. And, it is...

this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...

environment, which is rare anymore, is often a very dangerous environment that can threaten ones life. This makes the reader under...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...