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tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

host is asking if the next can outdo the story offered by the Knight. In the following lines we see the words and the general per...

entertainment or that Chaucer was simply commenting on the humorous characters and times which he experienced during his lifetime....

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

If so, he is giving an analogy to say that it is impossible. It is with this presumption that Chaucer creates his religious charac...

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 ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

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...

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 ...

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

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

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...

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...

but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

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

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

In six pages Ulrich's 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812' and Darnton's 'The Great Cat M...