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death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...

cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...

of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...

The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

a lady....

otherworldly and immovable. She is not a fully functioning human being. Louise Mallard is also damaged, but her weakness is physi...

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

Durang's satire of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie is considered in this report of five pages in which the author's succes...

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

he so closely identifies with him, which is precisely Poes point-the narrators is not normal, but is quite insane. The point of ...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...

cold hearted person. She was like this because she was afraid to really look at herself. She was also afraid to hope for anything ...

why he became an addict; he also express great uncertainty about his life after hes released from prison (Class lecture on "Sonnys...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

cases from the point of view that the person on trial is guilty. There is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty-he start...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

as he encounters people he believes to be good Puritans his innocence is slowly being threatened with a truth he cannot understand...

still places on the planet where nature is more important than man and his machines, and where nature actually "knows best" and sh...

paper and open a vein. The point is that non-writers dont understand how difficult writing is; writers do, and frequently wish th...

The grandmother thinks she has the answers and is saved, religiously or otherwise, but yet she perhaps seems to realize that this ...