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Essays 211 - 240
When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...
she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...
Jazz Age"). Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were a sort of American "royalty," known as much for their "madcap antics as for his wri...
showing that her concerns are animalistic as well. From this beginning, she grows into a person of worth and awareness. Miyazaki ...
manly man, who appears before the boy, a man who is "a big balding six-footer with a rough, manly face" (Capote 4). This is then s...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...
to her on the basis of her sex. To further complicate her situation, she was an exile from her primitive Colchis homeland, forced...
Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanline...
plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...
complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...
is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...
are giving in to another, and also demonstrating how they are not necessarily self confident or overly concerned about themselves ...
more than the all-too common story of a girl seduced and abandoned by a worthless man, it is a lecture that runs nearly 150 pages ...
one of the most frequently anthologized stories in English, and one of the most popular. Its blend of horror, mystery and irony ar...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...
is a classic "quest" tale; the description of a mans journey through a strange new world, in this case, Detroit, Michigan. This pa...
Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...
of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...
that he dies of a broken heart. The relationship among art, passion and intellect is really the heart of the story. Mann has very...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...
Hardy presents the tragic story of a young dairymaid, descended on her mothers side from rough peasant folk and on her fathers fro...
the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
He is shot and wakes to find himself in another body, a person in the past. Zits has access to the persons memories and knows the ...