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that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...

It is always simpler to diagnose someone elses life than ones own, and so it is that the reader watches as Goldmund slowly unravel...

human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

their lives and their emotions. These men did not need a woman to encourage them or to make them feel like they were men. Inter...

that allows the poem to celebrate or immortalize its national culture (Epic Poetry). The distinguishing characteristics of Homers...

this Mariuss evil twin? The characterization of Gaius Marius is above all well done, as were the characterizations of many other...

combat and claiming the right to sleep with any woman before her marriage" (Sparknotes). While Gilgamesh is handsome if not beauti...

which also includes the tales of the Friar, Summoner, Clerk, Merchant, Squire and Franklin and consist of tales or perceptions rel...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

tribal office. She is still close with her brother in many ways, but is very distant from the rest of the world, even those men wh...

Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...

is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

quickly. It is true that in some of the Northern settlements, plantation managers preferred to use white indentured servants rathe...

as "little skylark twittering." Her husband calls her "little featherbrain," "little scatterbrain," "squirrel sulking", and "song ...

relatively quiet, yet ominous woman. We note that she is clearly a very "mysterious person, which attracts Esteban to her and w...

her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one...

which Alpine realizes by the novels end, through Bobers example, can be the foundation of a meaningful life. Bober is unsuccessf...

seeing her dressed up for she was obviously a young woman who was bare foot and bore unkempt hair. When the conversation progre...

the story unfolds Satans speeches become increasingly hostile and destructive and the true deception of Satans nature is revealed....

man and religion, which changes the society. Through all of these events and conditions we are witness to incredible change, most ...

also knows that she cannot abandon all that she is or all that she has experienced. We watch as she confronts her strengths and ...

be a lover and an optimist. But we begin to see images of tension in the fact that he describes the evening sky spread out as "a p...

is Miss Havisham. He believes that she is funding his education so that he can become educated and then wealthy and then be worthy...

Madame Defarge. There is an exception however, for a few years back she did play the Wicked Queen in Snow White, which could perha...

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...

cannot go when he obviously want it so badly. James feels that his fathers sarcastic rejection of the idea of visiting the lightho...