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world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

"We are two-legged wombs, thats all; sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices" (Atwood, 1986, p. 136). Because they are fertile they ...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

would cause him to keep a distance from other children, such as twitching behavior, bands on his teeth, and glasses (Sacks 85). Fr...

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

she isnt such a ninny; not only that, but there is an explanation for some of her behavior. In the French tale, her father is aliv...

noted that the emperor had announced defeat, which meant surrender (Dower, 2001). Yet, the woman who Dower notes on the first pag...

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

to indicate that the students are not gaining a positive education in life through learning how to be moralistic or ethical in the...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

she should behave. She goes to a home where she is treated very well and ultimately has a puppy of her own and this makes her life...

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...