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that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

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...

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...

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

tells the reader that whatever happened to the occupants occurred recently, as obviously the house still has electricity. The per...

an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...

take on most of the responsibilities for child care and housework. The traditional female categories are still being claimed by wo...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

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...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

Stone Face, Ernest, a small boy growing up in the village learns of a prophecy concerning one who will live among them and will be...

death(The Death/synopsis). He simply lived his life like most people do: work, family, community. There was nothing else. Or was t...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

restriction and that, for the rest of her life, "she would live for herself" (Chopin). With a feeling of freedom unlike anything s...

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

clear that there are some very mysterious things taking place within the story. We note this first in the presence of the house wh...

of any producer are monitored carefully by commodity traders. The volatility of prices in general does not have a great deal of ef...

with Sykes tormenting her with a whip that mistakes for a snake. This image carries with it the historical weight of slavery, as...

it looks like a Holstein calf, and she is waggin her finger at me and sayin, "Child, you got to grab hold of the things you want i...

The books all remained accurate translations, but the marketing in terms of covers were highly customised to each market. The imag...

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

nagging them at home. Given that he wrote many of his works between the fifties and seventies, it was a certainty that the indepen...

Sebastian for the arrows to begin piercing him" (OConnor). We see the hat that she is so proud of an he, in his impatience, "Put i...