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by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

Montgomery. It could be contended that even the geographical location of Maycomb is a critical element in Lees plot. Montgomery,...

Chaucer mentions that her forehead is showing, which is often considered to be a characteristic of a person who was well bred and ...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

case, claiming that she has done no wrong to her husband. But, it is to say that she is constantly doing as her husband orders, ev...

still powerfully under the control of a patriarchal society. "For Antigone, there could never be any laws that could stand in t...

cases out of ten," the child dies from one cause or another, such as starvation, illness or neglect. However, Oliver survives, and...

this fact that is akin to the shame that Sanders feels over his fathers drinking. When asked if his First Communion clothes were ...

not lost./ He would the sea were held at any cost/ Across from Middleburgh to Orwell town./ At money-changing he could make a crow...

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

In five pages twelve lines of this famous tale are analyzed in terms of how it provides a true love commentary and represents an e...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

songs and lays had been the product of his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (P...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

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...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...