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Essays 241 - 270
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
This paper consists of five pages and considers the origins of Roman mythology and compares it with its Greek mythology counterpar...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...
being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
The three elements of mythology such as the popular literary motif of the tragic hero, the treatment of women, and the comparing o...
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...
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...
word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...
is not often told is how the Pilgrims would have died without the help of the Natives, and how the Pilgrims, the Puritans, felt th...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
In six pages this paper examines how Hemingway's rather condescending attitudes and low opinion of women are reflected in his shor...
for her money, but resents her for the power it has given her and the lack of ambition he himself embraces. He feels he has paid ...
This paper analyzes Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The author addresses narrative voic...
by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...