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of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

oppressed. Later in the story the reader learns of how Emily was not allowed to have male suitors and how her only responsibilit...

While this may be one way of looking at the story, and the character of Emily, it seems to lack strength in light of the fact that...

flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all" (Faulkner). This is a clear indication that Em...

is also presented in a manner that makes the reader see what a sad and lonely life she has likely led. This is generally inferred ...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

even on good speaking terms with him. This leads the rest of the townsfolk to determine that Brown is crazy making Hawthornes poin...

of America in its beginnings and resulted in the development of a genre that has come to be known as transcendentalist literature....

Glossary of Literary Terms) by exposing opposite truths, as it relates to her perception of death. Retaining ones dignity i...

A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dick...

in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And...

turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their pre...

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

This feature of transcendentalism is clearly evident in Emersons address. Emerson begins "The Divinity School Address" with a ly...

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

from a different era. Considering that he saw some of mans worst atrocities to his fellow man, it is no wonder that his poetry r...

In ten pages this essay considers how Emerson represents transcendentalist principles in a comparison and contrast of his two spee...

individuals freedom and dignity. He espoused the self as the most important entity. In transcendentalism, the person aspi...

In three pages 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman is contrasted and compared with Thoreau's Transcendentalist writing in 'Economy an...

In six pages this paper considers Ralph Emerson's influence in terms of style of writing and his transcendentalist concept of happ...

action, one must carefully consider the possible alternative of a lawful, democratic form of protest, the overall value and useful...

each. An allegory, while closely associated with symbols or symbolism, is a unique literary element in that everything within the...

such. We had long thought of them as a tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled sil...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

of the key phrases in these lines is "Were I with thee," which indicates that the poet is not with her beloved. It is the fact th...

a vase and ask of what the pictures speak: "Thou still unravishd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,...

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...