YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Reflections on Several Famous Literary Works
Essays 421 - 450
much of a respected figure. One author, in noting this states that his "playboy image impeded the proper assessment of his work" (...
still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...
King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...
down into the depths, and the church of Dantes medieval Italy labeled any direct and persistent questioning soul as heretical. ...
was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation uns...
through the Japanese, then the Russians and then the Chinese Communists. Reality and everyday actions became skewed as people live...
At the same time, however, the stories which are presented to not necessarily unfold in a clear chronological pattern. Instead va...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
Frank Norris, who was working for Doubleday, helped Dreisers first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), to be published....Dreiser continu...
all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...
he was sent to another culture and made a slave. With his plans and expectations already in place Kunta finds himself in Americ...
were sold for five dollars each to work in the fish canneries in Alaska, by a Visayan from the island of Leyre to an Ilocano from ...
learned of the pregnancy, and that she is not particularly impressed with his perspective on the situation....
not necessarily reliable, and that the imposition of an adult viewpoint on childhood events and emotions is bound to present a dis...
essentially touched upon all that was important and relevant to the African American. He was born James Langston Hughes on Feb....
not been there for his two sons. In this respect both of the sons have had to grow up without their father, or with essentially an...
with open galleries and porticoes. Bottles of milk were grouped on the steps, and occasionally light flickered from the kitchens w...
of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...
each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...
visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...
OConnor (1925 - 1964) Novelist oconnormain.html). This illustrates her intense position as it involves the secular world that surr...
ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...
we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...
of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!" (Conrad PG)....
or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...
the undercurrent of human conflict is more than apparent as evidence of how plot is a function of character. "The evening, I reme...
He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...
we note in the following: "Since before this time the races of men had been living on earth free from all evils, free from laborio...
this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...
the Inferno. "In Dantes Inferno, there is an Upper Hell and a Lower Hell. Upper Hell is the place for those guilty of excessive se...