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Memory Mambo/Aguero Sisters

heritage, a mulata, she would "do just about anything to deny her real lineage," and is attracted to Juanis father primarily becau...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

"own kind" in terms of the patients she serves, meaning donors who were raised, as she was, at Hailsham or one of the other estate...

Bluest Eye, Sonny Blues and Cathedra

is beautiful, acceptable, and normal while black physical characteristics, i.e., broad lips, kinky hair, flat nose and dark skin, ...

Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

Stock Characters

portrayal. Plautuss cast was in no danger of impeding upon each others characterization, inasmuch as they all embraced their own ...

Browning's Last Duchess & Her Fatal Misstep

creating a believable psychological portrait based on this duke, which is largely considered to be accurate according to Renaissan...

Nick Carraway/The Great Gatsby

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

Comparing the Main Characters and Dark Themes of Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

Beowulf & Aeneas

past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

Lord of the Flies and the Characters of Jack and Ralph and The Outsiders and the Character of Pony

What we learn by reading this book is that society as a whole is only as good as the individuals which...

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

A Theophrastan Character Sketch of Goody Two Shoes

are great fun, probably because we can see ourselves or people we know in them. In the case of Goody Two Shoes, it turns out that...

Character Analysis: Lyman in "The Red Convertible"

car deliberately so that Henry would work on it, and thus be restored to his old self. This doesnt seem to match up with the idea ...

Puritanism and the Formation of the American Character

and that the Puritans did not come to America to seek their freedom, but to "improve their economic well-being."3 At least that wa...

McCullers/Character of John Singer

who is also his employer, having him committed. Singer is devastated., as Antonapoulos was his world; his main human contact. At t...

Character and Setting in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...

Psychology of Characters in The Iliad

(Tracy). He traveled from place to place and although poor and impoverished at many points in his life, he was also warmly receive...

Common Theme: Identifying with the Character

be "good" persons. But what does it mean to be "good"? I understand that to be good means to follow "their" rules, the churchs rul...

Character Analysis of Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun

breathing hard and fast now but he wasnt really breathing because there wasnt any air passing through his nose. He didnt have a n...

Characters in Shakespeare’s Work

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Characters of Jane and Edward Rochester

combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...

Enkidu and Gilgamesh Character Development

have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...

Character Analysis of Turnus and Aeneas in Virgil's 'The Aeneid'

in the story when Aeneas has arrived in the realm of Turnus. Turnus was engaged to marry a woman but the womans mother has chosen ...

Characters of Othello by William Shakespeare

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson and the Character of Ishmael

man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...

Comparing the Characters of Gilgamesh and Charlie Marlow in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...

Malcolm X's Life and Character

Muslim traded his slave-master surname for X and began prescribing militance as the only cure for his peoples ills. Then a pilgri...

Characters of Macbeth and Othello

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

Character of Starbuck in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway

this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...