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tone to the story that keeps the reader from fully empathizing with Emily or her situation. However, it is this distancing from Em...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

seen in any other character in the novel. He began to see that he was different, and not human. Then he came upon a bundle that...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

Carol is seeking help from her professor, but also knows how to manipulate the situation for her advantage. John provides Carol w...

nine Books relate Augustines life up to the death of his mother and then, the story takes an abrupt turn as Augustine puts forth h...

as the term is defined. They use and are used in like fashion. Neos character is more of the classic hero archetype. However, Bu...

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

likely remain lost for the rest of his life. Analysis When we look at the very beginning of the story we can clearly see an an...

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

Especially when he speaks of Stoksie, in this example: "I forgot to say he thinks hes going to be manager some sunny day, maybe in...

originate in the collective unconscious of the race as a whole, saying that they were "primordial images which have always been th...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

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 ...

of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...

asked her if he could feel her face. He felt every detail of her face and it touched her to such a degree that she felt compelled...

content nor particularly happy with her lot in life. She brags to her husband and it is obvious that she could best him in almost...

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

protagonist finds his fathers rejection of him to be too much to bear and continue living. Kafka begins "The Judgment" by pictu...

people to some extent. In the beginning he states that it is not a very great painting, and while he is not ashamed of it, he hide...

a garden. Without end or limit, without borders and fences, in noises and rustling, golden in the sun, pale green in the shade, a...

my birthday and my parents are throwing a party for me. Its no surprise, but thats just as well. I cant ever remember having a p...

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

other hand, proposes that time is circular and events are cyclical. The old mystic who dreams is dreaming specifically to create...

question, one of the jurors came up to her later and told her, "I dont want you to think it was unanimous--it wasnt" (Sereny 360)....

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

they are poor because they have no luck. Paul, being a small child, thinks that luck is a tangible object to be found, obtained or...

traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...

that this woman has a great power over her and over the rest of the class. She begins to look around her at the reservation and re...

castle where he runs into a surly servant girl: Danielle(who beans him with an apple). Later, when he sees her in some of her si...