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soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...

receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...

purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...

black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...

jealousy. His inherent nature does not want him to believe such lies. We see this throughout the story as he is constantly confuse...

95 A.D. (Classics Resources, 2002). Quintilians advice to teachers still holds true today and offers general guidelines that can b...

a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...

the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...

the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

but she doesnt seem to realize it. One of the very first scenes between them the reader realizes that he is going to be a dominee...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

preferred method of service is that he cannot be trusted. He admits to being deceitful, purely for his own purposes," and we know...

to represent myriad things to myriad people, ultimately rendering any universal explanation virtually impossible. The problem wit...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

leaving only what is possible, even where it may be improbable in order to find the solution. In catching the culprit it is also w...

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

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

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

Texas), he has not made any grand innovations, in many cases, in fact, he failed at much of what he attempted. But instead of tryi...

monstrous Green Knight after having already shown that he is unmarred when his own head is cut off (Norton 218). There is a great ...

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...