Essays 391 - 420
that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...
world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...
from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...
what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...
of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...
(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...
grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...
Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...
when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...
the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...
readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...
French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...
when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...
forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...
during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...
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...
favorable in his time period (Art Archive [1], 2005). This author notes the following in regards to his work and his beliefs: "Yet...
a cave. They make love and, from this point on, Dido considers them to be married even though a ceremony has not officially consec...
stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...
end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...
does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...