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This paper examines four literary criticisms of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, Young Goodman Brown. The author also discusses Hawth...

In a paper consisting of five pages the argument is presented that within the short stories 'The Darling, 'The Betrothed,' and 'Th...

were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch, Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. T...

Realist writers "were more or less in open revolt against [society]," and naturalism combined the theories of Charles Darwin to co...

In ten pages 5 short stories from the collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes are analyzed in terms of the literary techniques emplo...

Secure in the knowledge that his origins are unknown, Max joins a white supremacist group and allies himself with their bigotry. S...

the community live, Angelas twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo, feel compelled to enact revenge on Santiago in order to redeem the fam...

argue he is standing up to injustice in the world as it involves the young girls. As one author states, "At first glance, Sammy, t...

suspects of being promiscuous. She is a flirt and immediately begins flirting with the bunk hands. Curley, a highly volatile man, ...

on the futures of children who are currently nurtured on violent images as pleasure. In an equal area of concern, owners of mass m...

this adds information to the reader. One of the main purposes of this is that is further aids in making the reader feel as if he ...

small town life where everything is simple and seemingly perfect and content. But, in reality they are nothing more than a symboli...

In five pages this research paper considers how the author used anthropomorphism in this story that is a part of Canterbury Tales....

was a message for his people, and for the reader as well. What did the black veil symbolize? The story ends as follows: " The gras...

according to her relationship to a male, Joyce subtly points to the gender hierarchy that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth ...

the intent of the writer. Might he have an agenda hidden under the ghost story? At the same time, this is a classic supernatural t...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

insanity, as she becomes progressively obsessed with the rooms wallpaper, its "sprawling, flamboyant patterns committing every art...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

A slightly different perspective on family life is offered in Joyces Eveline. Here, the protagonist is not only...

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

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

connection to the past somehow. The young men do not possess a strong link with their past and this causes them problems. They do ...

Melville is describing again the schoolmaster not just as an animal carrying out instinctual actions, but is describing his behavi...

it right in front of him. However, in The Birthmark we are also introduced to the character of Aminidad, who...

Therefore, Aylmer is destined to live a life of unhappiness, based not upon any inherently horrible thing about his life, but base...

Johnson muses about the past and, in so doing, tells the reader a great deal about both herself and her daughters. Mrs. Johnson ...