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"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...

corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...

such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

virginity before she marries Bayardo San Rom?n. To ascertain the guilt of innocence of Nasar the events need to be considered and ...

wearing halter tops and shorts (40). He nods at them and makes a "clicking sound" with his tongue (40). Clearly, it is a "come on"...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

serves to foil Nora in Acts I and II by tearing down Noras optimistic attitude with her own weighty pessimism. Mrs. Linde has not...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

guilty. What he does not know is how involved his mother, Gertrude, is in the plotting of the old Kings death. Her over hasty marr...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

gender identities not only to themselves but also for society (Samuels 104). In The Last of the Mohicans, womens roles had evolve...

if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play...Come telling me I come along too early. If you could play...then the...

have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who h...

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

to torment me anew. Suddenly the air in Rahim Khans little flat was too thick, too hot, too rich with the smell of the street" (H...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

her emotions to get the better of her. But, then again, if one looks back in history, at the time this story was written, that hea...

focus on the negative. The struggle between positive and negative forces is a challenge that has besieged mankind since he ...

harrowing existence would lead a mother to that sort of desperate act. But still, no matter why she did it, and even if death is b...

draws a moments air independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an...

their slaves to do so; they decide to sell Uncle Tom, who is middle-aged at the time, and a young boy named Harry, who is the son ...

much loved by a young baronet, Sir James Chettam, she marries instead the Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is much older than she is,...

Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

panacea when it came to womens rights. Liza was caught in this time period where she wanted to strike out on her own but was held ...

leaves, but in Hedda, both Eilert and Hedda die. In his introduction to The Feast at Solhoug, which came in for its share of cri...

friendship that endures, but had been weak and strong at different times in the lives, largely due to circumstance. Prior to the n...

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...