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tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

constant throughout history. The Prologue features the much-married Dame Alice, who is a shrewd manipulator of men who unabashed...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

Chaucer mentions that her forehead is showing, which is often considered to be a characteristic of a person who was well bred and ...

back" (Norton 85). The Tales themselves have a General Prologue and also a Prologue which precedes each individual tale. The Prolo...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...