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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wordsworth & Hardy/Perspectives on Nature

First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...

Island of Terror: Battle of Iwo Jima

wife that said she should not plan for his return. This shows how strong and determined he was to do the job that the Japanese mil...

Fantasy: Death of a Salesman and The Glass Menagerie

slowly come to a point where he realizes he is out of time and "His mind has run out of control. He is confused and no longer able...

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by Wordsworth

Form This particular poem has a very clear pattern of rhyme. It is considered to a type of poem that possesses a...

Compromise of 1850/3 Speeches

perspective on the political realities of the era, reviewing the political climate and history of the South. He states that this h...

Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

President Taft’s Foreign Policy

administration were the fact that he initiated "80 antitrust suits"; established a "postal savings system" and the Interstate Comm...

The Exorcist and Frankenstein

possesses a girl. She has no control over this possession and there seems to be no character that actively engages in evil. As suc...

Article Analysis: Ten Faulty Notions about Teaching and Learning

practice impede students understanding and dull creativity; that theres no need for teachers to measure students performance; that...

The Diversity Toolkit

people, is not comprised of "20 percent people of color" (Sonnenschein, 1999; 1). Considering that this work was written almost 10...

Dunning and Woodard

plans for Reconstruction" (Jarvis, 2008). He believed that the African Americans should have far more rights than they did. In add...