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Blindness in 'Cathedral' by Raymond Carver

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

'Cross' by Langston Hughes

her well" (lines 4-8). This substantiates the forgiveness and understanding that the speaker already has indicated towards his fat...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Battle Royal in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

and is confused by his grandfathers sudden rejection of this template of behavior as "treachery." The grandfather says to live wit...

'The Road Not Taken' and 'Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost

line assures us that we are in this world" (Ogilvie et al.). There is a very relaxed, yet very introspective, tone to the lines as...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Buzzards

intelligent. She is made to remain aloof from all people in this relationship. The buzzards at this point could well be related to...

Comparative Analysis of Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

of passion in their lives, this somber existence. The mood is also set by the tone as it develops along with the plot. In Lawrence...

'Ballad of Birmingham' by Dudley Randall

hope. The mothers wise voice could be seen to be the voice of experience, conservative ways, of hope seasoned with hard times. The...

Student Papers and Interpretations of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

upon her every which way she may turn, reminding her that because she is of the female gender and not of the most prominent of soc...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Boundaries and Limitations

the irony of the Congo River, which is described as the antithesis of the Thames, which is the location from which Marlow tells th...

Emily Dickinson's 'I Dwell in Possibility'

say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...

'If You Touched My Heart' by Isabel Allende

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

Symbols Used in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...

Fourth Act, First Scene of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...

Sidonie Colette's 'The Hand'

hygiene she also realizes are very large and she is shocked. This is a significant statement by the wife, since up until this time...

John's Gospel 10, Verses 22 to 40

a point (Born, 1988). For instance, in verse 24, the Jews ask Jesus "how long" He will keep them "in suspense" - "If you are the C...

Muralists of Mexico, Orozco, Siquieros, and Rivera

The aristocratic sections of society had fully embraced all things European and as such had negated their Indian and native origin...

Willilam Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff and Characterization

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...

Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

and dies. The plane crashes, but Brian manages to survive it by landing the plane in a lake. Brians journey begins. While he is ...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Death Themes in Othello by William Shakespeare

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

Canto 2 of Dante's 'Inferno'

forest, having lost his way from the "true path." One night, when half my life behind me lay, I wandered from the straight lost ...

J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Satirical Commentary

eros, or cupid, in that the dust from her makes a person fly. Pixie dust coupled with happy thoughts send one skyward...just as fi...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Perfection

the world of all evil by silencing any voice of dissention. This short story clearly illustrates the idea that evil is in the doin...

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...

Native American Short Story 'High Horse's Counting'

speaking with the man directly, or setting about to use his mind to figure out a logical answer, he resorts to unethical behavior....

Analysis of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...