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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...

extremely close friends. Nel is abandoned by her husband, Jude, when she catches him making love to Sula. This is a double loss fo...

to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...

In 5 pages sex as an instrument of power rather than an expression of intimacy is considered in this analysis of Beloved by Toni M...

typical, but maybe too stereotypical. He is someone who today would appear on The Jerry Springer Show. His life has always been dy...

As the development of bound labor in the American south moved from the indentured servitude system of the colonial era to the grow...

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

In 4 pages this paper examines the struggles of Nell and Sula in contending with apathy and evil in this novel by Toni Morrison. ...

appreciated by adults and adolescents alike, in that such beautiful yet sometimes subtle impressions represent the epitome of Hold...

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

In nine pages Melville's message in Billy Budd is analyzed and then the novel is compared to the works by Arthur Miller and Toni M...

Awakening: Marriage and Independence In Kate Chopins controversial novel The Awakening, which was first published in 1899, the n...

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

where people were loud as they danced and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very s...

very beginning of the book a reader understands that this will not be, in any way, a "usual" story, especially as the logic behind...

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 ...

money, and she now has nothing. With this simple background in mind we note that she, at one time, wanted to explore herself an...

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

friendship: conflict between human beings. The exact manner in which Morrison reveals this conflict is an integral component to t...

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

However, each contact with the white community in the town below reminds the reader of the constraints established by racial bigot...

However, this influence is seldom acknowledged by critics, who "see no excitement or meaning to the tropes of darkness, sexuality ...

became indentured servants, but this was rare (Faragher, et al 57). Because of the institution of indentured service, "New world s...

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

She has attempted to find a place in herself wherein she can survive and go on despite her actions. It is a very cloudy place that...

depictions of Black America" (Nobelprize.org). Another critic notes that, "Morrison powerfully evokes in her fiction the legacies ...

remembering what happened. With disremember she is primarily taking a memory and pushing it away so that it will not become real t...

and sung amidst a house that was less than perfectly organized. As we can see in this very simple beginning, a beginning that sets...

the ease and comfort of old friends. Because each had discovered that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and t...