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Essays 241 - 270
traveled into the wilderness in order to achieve moral clarity. Hawthornes title character journeys into a forest near his home, ...
a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...
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...
decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
of judgments find themselves in usually violent altercations that force judgment to be passed on them. She admitted, "In my own s...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...
man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldnt get up, impeded by his enormous wings" (Marquez)...
wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...
each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...
- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...
(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...
modern-day utopias that seemed to have the best of everything. There were sporting events, community activities, performing arts,...
formality and propriety was incorrect and not only have the main characters deceived each other, but Wharton has been successful i...
and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
concerned with the cultural deterioration which was inevitable after the wars catastrophic destruction. Two of these authors most...
and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...
by the lack of ethical integrity, which seemed to be a byproduct of industrial society. The wheels of progress, in Lawrences view...
In seven pages this paper examines the short story in terms of how it expresses the author's attitudes about religion. Six source...
In five pages this paper discusses these two short stories in terms of how language is employed by the characters to achieve order...
city. Not surprisingly, the first section of the book, which deals with city and its economy as well as the greater economy...
In six pages this short story is analyzed in terms of male bonding and how the relationship between the men changes throughout the...
yo like. Ill be home tonight." The screen door made a little snick as it swung closed, and she was alone. She pulled the gown back...
In four pages this essay analyzes the short story by Ernest Hemingway with an emphasis upon symbolism includiing that represented ...
In five pages this essay discusses this amusing short story by Sherwood Anderson....
In five pages this paper analyzes the structure of Butler's short story....
In seven pages the use of language and the symbolism of the quilt are examined within the context of Walker's short story....
In seven pages this essay considers transformation within a comparative context of these short stories....