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Elder Fairytale

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...

'The Pardoner's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

no jet planes at the time, one has to assume that he is in that vicinity of the world. The characters are entrenched in sinful act...

Sex and Gender in Decameron

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

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

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

Pandosto by Robert Greene and The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

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

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

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

'Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His Womman Divyne' Review

it "slows the pace of the narrative, heightens suspense, and enhances the tales mock-heroic tone" (p. 69). This appears to ...

John Barth's Use of Allegory in 'Giles Goat Boy'

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...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

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

Growing Up in Frances H. Burnett's The Secret Garden and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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...

Ancient Irish Tale 'How Ronan Slew His Son'

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

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...

American Immigration Theories

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

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

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

Female Protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Anton Chekhov's The Darling

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

Questions on 9 Stories Answered

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

Masculinity in The Tale of Genji

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

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Mysteries' The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Red Headed League, and The Adventure of the Speckled Band

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...

Totalitarianism in the Works of George Orwell and Margaret Atwood

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

Women as Objects

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

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

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...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale and the 7 Deadly Sins

the Pardoner, himself a representative of the Church. The Seven Deadly Sins are known as pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lu...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

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

Thematic Conflict in John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War

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

Frank Norris's McTeague

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

Nguyen Du's The Tale of Kieu

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...