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says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

(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...

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

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...

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 ...

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...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

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...