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Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths"

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

About "Macbeth"

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

Theme in Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

Critical Approaches: "The Yellow Wallpaper"

it does not suggest that the reader become formally involved with the story. She (or he) need only read and "listen" to Gilmans wo...

Stories: Japan

boy of 16, was less than polite to the Nakamura family and seemed very racist, constantly telling the family he had wanted to go t...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

Gatekeepers and the News

(Donohew, 1967). The gatekeeper may operate under a set of instructions and guidelines, or they may have to make these decisions ...

The Concept of the "Other" in Alcott and Davis

and never will-even though hes making a lot of money. The Other, then, is someone who is not one of us. And having defined them on...

The Sun in 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

sun-drenched countryside. The glare from the sky was unbearable" (Camus). In this first chapter the power and glare of the sun ...

The Feminist Literary Works of Mary Wilkins Freeman

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

An Analysis of Adam and Eve

powerful persuasiveness to lead man astray, the consequences of disobeying God and the subsequent struggle of all humanity. It is ...

Tim O'Brien's 'How to Tell a True War Story,' Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and the Importance of Setting

a sense of apprehension. As he looks back to see her watching him as he rounds the corner by the meeting house he vows that thing...

Analysis of Stories Featured in The Burning Plain by Rulfo

flood. While many might examine such as story and wonder why anyone would go to such extremes over a dead cow, this...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Greasy Lake by Boyle

themselves from their parents, their community, and society as well in many ways, finding elements that make them unique. In this ...

An Old-Fashioned Story Reviewed

home for everyone, as everyone has a mother. Even people who do not know who their mothers are perhaps have a gut feeling about he...

Theme of The Great Grandmother by Nancy Hale

as life slips away alongside the wonderment borne of childhood is, perhaps, some of the most intense and illustrative of all Hales...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Live Burial Theme in Edgar Allan Poe's Writings

stupor, Montressor begins to wall him in...alive. As Fortunato begins to sober up and realize what is going on he begins to scream...

Character Influences in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and John Updike's 'A & P'

excitement in the place. It is not necessarily a nurturing environment for one who wants something more out of life than to be a b...

James Joyce's Dubliners and Dublin's Importance

story of a young girl who lives in Dublin with her father and her brother. But living there has become like living in a prison, a...

Themes of Futility and Furstration in the Works of Joyce

North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free. An...

The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiongo

independence of British rule and the postcolonial and postimperial themes of independence are consistent through "The River Betwee...

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Summarized and Analyzed

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

South Africa Setting for a Fictional Story

some people spend their whole lives asserting that innate desire; it is this quest for improved social, economic, political and cu...

Charles Johnson's Middle Passage A Journey

freed black man and has just hopped onboard a slaving ship headed for Africa. The ships captain is a dwarf named Ebenezer Falcon, ...

Were Adam and Eve Influenced By the Snake or Free Will?

God warned Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of Conscience, but they did not heed his admonition. Convinced by the serpent th...

Feminist Perspectives and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' and Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'

the reader with picture-perfect images. As one author notes, in regards to this story, "Through joyous rituals, LeGuin outlines pa...