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This 7 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's use of vacant facial expressions in her novel Beloved can be understood with referen...

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts the themes and characters in two of Toni Morrison's novels, Beloved and The Bluest Eye. T...

-- could be guaranteed. Then Sethes mother had to return to the fields, and Sethe would be nursed -- insufficiently -- by the whit...

In 8 pages this paper examines the thematic significance of motherhood and the symbolism of breastfeeding in the 1987 novel Belove...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the past is reinterpreted through the lack of conflict resolution in the texts In Country by Bo...

In a paper containing six pages the protagonist's inability to handle the dissolution of his beloved Ibo culture after the takeove...

In 8 pages the erogenous and nursing significance of breasts and the freedom and oppression they represent to Sethe are the focus ...

In six pages the concept of freedom through death as a release from life's hardships is examined through such works as William Fau...

In ten pages the amazing life of Herbert Hoover from his selfmade business career to his disastrous period in the White House to h...

at first, her "kindly" master died, and a man known as "schoolteacher" took over; he embodied the worst traits of the slave owner ...

these women to seek relief in laudanum." Laudanum was a drug and apparently many plantation mistresses were living in incredibly o...

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

of Western superiority, is the only correct view. By this novels end, it is clear that what Price calls "faith" is rather cultur...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

the hope inherently possessed in freedom. But, even Baby Suggs understands that slavery will always be with them. She dreamed of b...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see that the past, which involves at least Sethes enslavement, is very real ...

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

social consciousness. One of Douglass first discoveries, or one of the most important first discoveries, he made was that of the...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

exactly how many versions have existed throughout the ages, one would be hard pressed to find a definitive answer, inasmuch as the...

who seems to have been originally placed in the plantation to serve as the woman of the slaves. She was somewhat innocent and was ...

in her own tragedy. While Sethe is still enslaved, she is treated by Schoolteachers despicable nephews as if she were no more th...

Morrisons work because water is symbolic of Beloveds need to fulfill a basic desire, but also a thirst for freedom. Another impo...

We see that part of the past is dead, with the death of Baby Suggs who was a constant reminder of slavery and the hope inherently ...

beginning, as we see the characters in a somewhat present condition, a condition wherein the women are not slaves, we also see tha...

girl before she is stopped. It is this sin -- the sin of Cain, to murder ones own flesh and blood -- that traps Sethe both in tim...

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...