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(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

87). They dont see Alisoun for who and what she is, but instead act out some sort of romantic fantasies that have little to do wit...

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

be raised by her sister and brother-in-law. However, Remedios warns her against this course of action, saying that, in the north, ...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had a great effect throughout Europe and the patronage system of the Baroque was soo...

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

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

songs and lays had been the product of his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (P...

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