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Compton in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! And The Sound and the Fury

them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...

Symbols and Themes in “A Rose for Emily”

they sneak away; here the reference is to an angry and implacable god who is ready to strike down those who disobey. The second r...

Houses in Literature and their Symbolic Value

and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...

Miss Emily as Illustrated by her House

one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...

Chopin, Faulkner, and Jewett - The Use of Foreshadowing

setting up the ending in this way through foreshadowing, it would seem to "come out of nowhere", and would be a jarring fit with t...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Similarities and Differences in Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily

This 10 page essay analyzes the characters presented by Faulkner and Gilman. The author of this essay contends that each of these...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Faulkner: As I Lay Dying

be buried in her familys plot (Lilburn). Its summer, its hot, the journey takes nine days - that in itself is macabre enough, but...

Literary Characters and Conflict

seething, boiling and discontent as the odd angled buildings and broken windows. It can be the quiet solitude of a rustic church, ...

Faulkner, Hemingway and Hawthorne's Strategy

Readings are taken from three works, The Sound and the Fury, The House of the Seven Gables and A Farewell to Arms, in this paper w...

Willilam Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway

discuss the men. In the article concerning Hemingway the author notes that "Description so vivid that it enables one to be there i...

Comparative Analysis of 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

In five pages the tone and style of these short stories are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are no other...

Comparative Analysis of How Mood, Atmosphere, and Place Are Used in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

His soul seemed to melt...He had never thought of loving her...When he rescued her and restored her, he was a doctor, and she was ...

Comparative Analysis of 'Representations of General Nature' in 'A Haunted House' by Virginia Woolf and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

This paper applies Samuel Johnson's contention that 'representations of general nature' should be featured in good stories in a co...

Protagonists and Their Internal Struggles in 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner and 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

In 5 pages this paper compares these stories in terms of the internal struggles of each protagonist. There are no other sources l...

Death and Sex Symbolism and Themes in 'Patriotism' by Yukio Mishima and 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

Throughout the story, the reader is forced to determine just which gender Emily actually represents. Additionally, it becomes cle...

O. Henry/Gift of the Magi

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

The Way of the World by William Congreve

particular man, Mr. Fainall, is constantly trying to obtain money through devious means. One of those means involves his wife Mrs....

Different Interpretations of Settlers in the New World

A great deal of insight about equality emerges, and later, this would be the basis for the creation of the United States of Americ...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Leon Bing/Do or Die/Youth Gangs

youre that thirteen or fourteen-year-old kid youre probably sitting quietly, trying to wind your thoughts into as tight a package...

Reflection on Two Diverse Articles

This essay summarizes the highlights of two documents: a bibliographic memoir of Roger Williams Brown, father of developmental psy...

Eliot & Thackeray

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

Simon and Piggy, Lord of the Flies

This essay concerns Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the roles played by Piggy and Simon in supporting his primary thesis...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Public Administration Decisions

This paper reviews one chapter in a book by William Johnson on Public Administration. The chapter discusses decision making and co...

BiPolar Disorder on Television

Stereotypes and stigmas about mental illness have been consistently fostered by the media but in recent years, there are some tele...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

William of Ockham

The Middle Ages was a time of dramatic change in Europe and the British Isles. This paper addresses secular and religious values b...