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die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...

As such, the social, political, economical and religious activities experienced in everyday life represents the very essence of wh...

women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...

circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

was not, as it had been during the Depression, a function of what the consumer could afford, bur rather what the then could find (...

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

manners and mannerisms and all kinds of non-verbal communication that will be interpreted. It is possible that any or all of these...

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...