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same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

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

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

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

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...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

well. Interestingly enough, when small businesses make millions other innovations and turned into larger businesses, sometimes th...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

acquired when one allows himself to be transformed, a manifestation that encourages one to "perceive new meaning to his life, to e...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...