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Essays 271 - 300
the law. It would be an impossibility, no matter what the prediction, that this would happen. However, in the case of Oedipus, he ...
wonder of nature, or the natural balance of things as he is determined to kill the whale. As one author notes, "Ahab destroys hims...
man who may have once possessed dreams, but today is an angry and bitter individual. "He was a man of thirty-one with a hardened f...
...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...
Muslim traded his slave-master surname for X and began prescribing militance as the only cure for his peoples ills. Then a pilgri...
man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...
food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...
since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...
that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...
different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
organism. * Dmowskis was a distinctively anti-romantic nationalism. He thought the ideals of Polish romantic nationalism--the bro...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...
I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...
the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...
is difficult. It appears that he is able to emulate a real boy, he makes decisions regarding his own actions, has emotions and act...
the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...
of one individual, Lipsha. One critic notes that this novel "explores more or less three general areas which constitutes its plot:...
relatively quiet, yet ominous woman. We note that she is clearly a very "mysterious person, which attracts Esteban to her and w...
and his lack of desire for monetary gain at their expense. What the student may wish to expound upon at this point is that man is ...
. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...
making of an immense success" (Conrad Chapter III p. NA). Marlow could not deny such facts he really had no knowledge of, and yet ...
the South and its prejudices behind to escape the sexual abuse of her father, a one-time rabbi turned shopkeeper, whose racism fou...
make him sick in actuality. To relieve his masters distress, Mosca tells the lady that her husband is riding off in a gondola with...