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in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

This paper examines how women in America, particularly in the South, were treated as represented in 'A Rose for Emily,' a classic ...

In four pages this paper examines these authors' perceptions of women as they are represented in characterizations of sin and good...

This five page paper interprets Claudius' question to Hamlet as to what has become of Polinus' body, the question preseted in Act ...

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...

American women's social roles are considered in William Carlos Williams' poems 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'The Young Housewife' in a...

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how women's roles are depicted in these two classic works of literature. Five so...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

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

If the reader proves victorious at ascertaining the entire concept as a whole, while comprehending the connection of the detailed ...

great deal of literature there is a foundation that is laid in relationship to a community. The community is a part of the setting...

had died, the reader recognizes that Emily must always live in that Old South because of her father and his demands. But, at the s...

deathly lit environment gives the mention of rose a very sad and lonely tone. While people may, at first, immediately think the ...

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

as devoted as Ms. Emily thinks, goes out with another woman. When he returns, Emily poisons him with arsenic. Finally, she closes ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...

This essay pertains to William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning," and the changing attitudes of its 10-year-old protagonist Sa...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

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

literary criticism entitled, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Judith Fetterley described "A Rose for...

of our known world esteemd him." As we note, Horatio had a great deal of respect for Hamlet, and later illustrated how Hamlet had ...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

a feeling that his ferocious conviction in the rightness of his own actions would be of advantage to all whose interest lies with ...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

necessarily as depressing as one could envision in relationship to the process of dying and the construction of a coffin outside h...

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

child, which is further emphasized by his stiff nature. All of these symbolic descriptions lay the foundation for understanding th...