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imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...