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

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

whale (55). Naturally, this represents the books climax, but how would Melville fill the huge writing gap between the introductio...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

she imagines that she is able to rub "the life back into the dim little eyes" (Mansfield 176). On one level, Miss Brill realizes t...

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

of "Desirees Baby," Teresa Gibert observed, "The number and the intensity of the surprises that provoke astonishment in the highly...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

hit-and-run death of Toms mistress, the married Myrtle Wilson. Her widower is deceived into thinking Gatsby caused the accident, ...

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

luster that made her, herself, shine so" (Capote 14-15). In this one can see how despite the group of people she hung out with, ...

regions, such as Palestine, Bethany and Cana. Some of what John records only an eyewitness could have reported, such as the fragra...

legal husband was not even in the country. She will not reveal the childs fathers name, however, out of sincere love for the man w...

In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...

"fundamental difference" as well in the actions of the men and women, a difference "grounded in varying understandings of the home...