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Essays 1801 - 1830
plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...
this day, of course, will differ from all others. What makes this a significant day in Miss Brills life is that she is about to be...
the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...
lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...
used as power weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the...
some of the local women, but he does not follow through on this desires because - above all else - he wishes to avoid consequences...
reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...
standing in a position that speaks of martyrdom: "he, his hands behind him, appeared pinned to the door frame, waiting like Saint ...
own enlightenment. Joy/Hulga has actively chosen to be pessimistic about life and about people. She is bitter and angry, which ...
human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...
of symbolism can be seen in Melvilles "great white whale in Moby Dick; Dantes journey into the underworld in The Inferno" and many...
of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...
that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...
of death, while the Mourning Dove reminds one of the mourners at ones funeral. This also sets the tone for the frame of mind that ...
kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...
Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...
its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...
it will save more than it will cost, adding value to the company and be cost efficient. The main risks that are felt ion interna...
living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...
Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...
readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is als...
talked too much anyway" (Glaspell). Throughout the story, Martha Hale feels guilty because she did not visit Minnie more often, b...
In a research study on the factors which lead to acts of revenge, University of Arkansas psychologists tested a number of voluntee...
to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...
features suggest, Miss Moore, first of all, does not try to change her appearance to meet white standards, hence, her hair is "nap...
grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...