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clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...

Ralphs group is Simon, who is sensitive and spiritual in nature. At one point in the novel, Simon hallucinates and images that t...

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

He says, "I know there isnt no beast-not with claws and all that" and he asserts that there is no reason to fear, but then he adds...

Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

asks whether pluralism "is a philosophy for wimps," that is, "for those whose beliefs are too saturated with uncertain and ambival...

of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...

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

had been older, he would have wondered why his father, would have witnessed the "waste and extravagance of war" and who "burned ev...

William Blakes "The Divine Image" have little in common, as the first poem relates a mystical enchantment of a knight with a super...

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...

and how the "friendly rustling murmur" (line 30) of the pine trees always welcomed him home. Another aspect of Romantic verse is...

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

of a child. 1. "I a child and thou a lamb" (Blake 670). B. Dickinsons narrator is a dying woman. 1. "The Eyes around-had wrung the...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

rising above childhoods of extreme poverty or abuse, yet cases do occur. James second argument in defense of free will point to th...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

the "music" of nature and is part of a continuous cycle. This poem concludes "How can we know the dancer from the dance" (line 64)...

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...