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And yet, it is apparent that Okonkwo behaves in this manner because he is filled with a great deal of fear. Above all else, he fe...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...

his epistle that "he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind ... he is a double-minded man, unstable in...

"black heart," but each kept some number of people at bay, not letting those individuals enter the inner recesses of either their ...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

planned any of it, but he had to know that one day, after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched w...

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

so strongly rooted in the collective consciousness that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethica...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

An elderly pianist, Mademoiselles music arouses Ednas artistic temperament. Additionally, Edna becomes infatuated with a young man...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

aftah he done worked hard all day" (Wright 860). As the author wastes no time in revealing, Dave "is frustrated by social control...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

until finally, the creation goddesses intervene and create a primitive alter-ego for him that would keep his own in check. Only w...

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

husband Torvald, belittle their women and define their mates based on their potential as a companion, housekeeper, and the ability...

could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...

freely expressing their sinful temptations to the minister. The cause of Reverend Hoopers alienation, it would appear, was not an...

his growth toward a greater measure of understanding of the world around him. For example, his school experiences in Clongowes pre...

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; th...