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among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks" (The Museum of the Goddess Athena). As one can see, Athena does not lov...

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

with the ideas of the era have made her a prime target for heartache, as her suitor, not as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out ...

a very well to do family. She attempts to foster a love of beauty and words to the narrator. In order to do this she encourages th...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

try" (207). As this exposition suggests, Marshalls presence as an outsider to the dynamics of the Hubbard family and as an outsi...

at the end because they simply enjoy being, instead of attempting to compete with others. Dr. Pangloss maintains, in great satiric...

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...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

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

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions. I was especially fond of animals, and was ...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

tying themselves to the underside of Polyphemus flock" (Stories from the Stars). Though the cyclops checked the sheep, "he didnt d...

in the following: "Oh be it ours to come to Theseus famous realm, a land of joy! Never, never let me see Eurotas swirling tide, ha...

Latino barrios in Chicago and she understands the plight of young Chicanos in addition to women feeling trapped between two cultur...

townspeople had actually seen her she still remained hidden until the appearance of a new character, Homer Barron. Homer is the an...

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

the story unfolds Satans speeches become increasingly hostile and destructive and the true deception of Satans nature is revealed....

man and religion, which changes the society. Through all of these events and conditions we are witness to incredible change, most ...

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...