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behavior. The influence of such forces can seem so over-powering that the parent eventually stops trying, emotionally abandoning c...
idea of Equilibrium and warned not to do anything until he knows what the effect of his action will be: "... you must not change ...
Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...
usually considered a teacher, or guide. The point is that the stories in this book use a great deal of symbolism, perhaps because...
in form and lessened in abstraction. Yeatss once short, rhyming poems transformed into more lengthy poems that were less concerne...
life, becoming bitter and angry. In essence they could well become poisonous to themselves and others around them because they hav...
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...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...
the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...
into the word and lasts for only a few minutes before a decrescendo takes the music into the Russian folk dance theme, which comme...
her we see this as representative of the Devil, but the Devil will, as Delia suggested, is going to make sure Sykes got what was c...
no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...
(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...
so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...
consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...
freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...
complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...
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...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
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...
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...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...