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Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

Time Themes in The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

radicals that Verloc has been spying upon. Now, time is not his friend. The element of time is narrowed considerably after this ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Enslavement

the hope inherently possessed in freedom. But, even Baby Suggs understands that slavery will always be with them. She dreamed of b...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, 'The Minister's Black Veil,' 'The Birth Mark,' and 'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment'

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

Boys and Girls by Munro and the Blood Motif

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Joseph Conrad's 'The Lagoon'

thinks the woman will die. Arsat is very sad and while he waits out the long night he begins to tell his friend about how he came ...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

Vanishing Point Film and Existentialism

on the Today show, but most will die before that time. The speedometer on the car can indeed represent life and how or why one can...

Questions and Answers on New York Authors

respectively. He did perhaps change his ideology over time and student writing on this subject might say that he had softened his ...

River's Significance in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

Literary Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

to convince her that having the abortion is no big deal. PATTERN OF SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH MODERN WORLD It is an interesti...

Analyzing 'The Train' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

that if they go to Florida, where it has been rumored that there is an escaped murderer loose, they will all be killed. The family...

Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...

Women in The House of Bernarda Alba by Garcia Lorca

give it up once Agustias is married. Poncia warns Bernarda that the women are going crazy being locked up as they are and that she...

Influences of Nature and Biography in the Works of Emily Dickinson

Dickinsons writing. While "no ordinance is seen" to those who are not participating in the war, it presence nevertheless is always...

Misfit Character Symbolic Uses in 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

the more meaning it opens up" (Yaghjian 268). Christian symbols and portrayals of Christ abound in "A Good Man is Hard to...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Analyzing 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' by Mark Twain

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Dali and Bosch

daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...

Issues in Morrison's The Bluest Eye

that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

Cisneros and Roethke

a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...