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he learns that his sons will fight and one will die. Thus, the reciting of the story is a punishment for Adam, a demonstration of ...

that leads Socrates to the conclusion that he will not be exiled from his beloved home, but would rather die a martyr for his beli...

the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...

to the religious ideologies of the Russian Orthodox church, and it is not surprising that Alyosha expresses ideals that are reject...

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

and his first brush with death came at the age of eight, when his father, a livery-stableman by trade, died of a fractured skull a...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

ClassicNote on Pride and Prejudice a.php?a=n001001182). In this we are given a subtle, yet very powerful, foundation for the unfol...

professor from the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His numerous books over the pas...

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

its merit as a work book for understanding the adult world of men. The Seasons of a Mans Life As mentioned, there exists very ...

specifically, it was an obsession as opposed to true love. What distinguishes these from each other is the element of personal sa...

One of the reasons for this is that Dickens expertly wove just about every emotion and every tale of human nature into this one gr...

so many things that Everyman had hoped to have done by the time Death arrived. As it is, Death has arrived and Everyman must make ...

mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...

used to hang around Walts drawing board (Thomas, 1976). In 1931, just three years after the creation of the famous character, Mick...

literature and his father had an impressive library (Ambrose Bierce, 2002). Bierces family was considered to be "sternly religiou...

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

that his poetry on the surface seemed to be very much about nature. However, when one looks beyond the imagery of the poem, one be...

Buddha identified Four Noble Truths. They may be briefly stated as follows: Human life is an existence of suffering. Human sufferi...

one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...

Two beings created for each other feel mutual love at the first glance; every consideration disappears before the irresistible imp...

do with something more important than materiality. The poem goes on to complete the first set of wings as follows: "With Thee O le...

of his mind and spirit working in tandem to overcome natures obstacles as well as the more primitive creatures on the Earth. Frost...

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

factor into the equation, though it would seem that love was possible eventually. Given that Petruchio considers Katherine his p...

its likely that Lennie will never remember. During the readers introduction to them they come upon a water hole which Lennie immed...

Willy Loman is a rather pathetic man. He is perhaps average, almost typical but maybe too stereotypical. His life had always been...

woods, peopled with the wild creatures of the forest, witches and all sort of magical folk, including Satan, himself. Tam stops to...