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corruption of politics; Colonel Killigrew (whose name in itself is symbolic) personifies the evils of pleasures of the flesh; and ...
was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...
the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...
survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...
with typical Christian values, and most of them wanted to grow up to become policemen, firemen, or doctors. Being average did not...
he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...
lover on the edge of being lost. Donne promises that lover that if she abides with the callers wished she will be rewarded with g...
say in their prose pieces. "Of Chambers as the Cedars/Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof/The Gambrels of the S...
women--and how they react when that legal system is about to destroy one of their own. Women did not make homicide law as it exist...
Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...
blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...
does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...
OConnors characterization of Joy/Hulga carefully builds up an image of a woman who has been very badly scarred by life, both physi...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...
that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...
a room of her own and a house of which she can be proud" (Sandra Cisneros, 2003). Among the issues Esperanza faces are the "disadv...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...
an undercurrent of evil present which is about erupt for all to see. Even the names Jackson chooses are symbolic of this un...
have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...
daddy longlegs in the evening hours is a good omen, a portent of good luck" (Ross). In another painting a critic for...
from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...
"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...
In a paper consisting of five pages this short story is considered in terms of its message, style, symbolism, and power struggle c...
at the center of the town square, and to emphasize its importance, the narrator notes, "The villagers kept their distance" (Jackso...
is made immediately aware, first by the title, then by Willys revealing that he found himself driving off the road, that we are ga...
crustcrumbs, fried hencods roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys, which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scen...