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fantasy), horror has generated the most serious study. Fright master Stephen King credits this to the acclaimed literary trilogy...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

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

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 ...

a grandfather is made clear as soon as Robert ushers Mr. Winfield into the car. Wiinfields granddaughter, Sheila, greets him. With...

some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...

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

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...

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

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

above her on the social ladder, Sophy accepts him when he proposes marriage. She marries, not from love, but more from a standpoin...

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

In five pages this paper examines how Houston promotes drama and literature through theater and writers groups and considers their...

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

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...

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...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

Melville: "he was ... a gentleman adventurer in the barbarous outposts of human experience" (147). Melvilles Bartleby the Scriven...

In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...

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...