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world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...
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...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
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...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...
From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...
makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...
room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...
looks at the picture of a man killing a lion, and says that if the lion had painted the picture, it would have been the other way ...
grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...
shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...
had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...
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...
when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...
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...
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...
how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...
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...
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...
In five pages the plot motifs featured in each of these tales are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...