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/ Arrayed of the Round Table rightful brothers ... / the feast was in force full fifteen days" (37-39, 44). They are celebrating t...

choked with it, so that they die and fall early. This of course is an extended metaphor for the men themselves, who will also die ...

(Faulkner). In the story of Miss Brill one does not see her as a tradition of the people, a sort of monument to an Old South bec...

these regards, who states that "this was a time in which writers and artists were intensely involved in exploring contemporary soc...

Rosmer, haunts them. Both characters, as noted, feel they are the cause of the suicide of Mrs. Rosmer and by the end of the story...

the Puritan faith within the story. One author notes that, "Puritan doctrine taught that all men are totally depraved and require ...

complex, and comprises 13 separate steps, each performed in accordance with Vedic tradition, and each symbolizing some aspect of t...

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

does he reach in and grab the insect and hand it to her. She is delighted and states it is not a grasshopper but a bell cricket, o...

from the Garden of Eden. The novel is "structured in two parts, each beginning with an air battle followed by an exploration of th...

"color meaning" website lists exactly these same colors: red, blue, green, orange and purple, plus black and white, as the ones it...

retinas are one yard high" (Fitzgerald 15). The student researching this topic will note that there are divergences from the stu...

saved by a friend and turned to writing which greatly changed her entire perspective, giving her "some measure of power" (Gilman [...

theme of pride that runs in Lyman and his ancestor, as well as other characters. In the work the author notes many instances, su...

day it was...Thought my old man was out back stacking wood...She dried her hands on her apron" (Jackson). Clearly this town is sym...

standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not mere...

he reminds her that that is still several months in the future (Ibsen). Her response is to suggest that they borrow what they need...

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

cultures," and is always a figure of evil (Champion). Delia is busy working, when she is frightened out of her wits: "Just then so...

waxed Japanese car with personalized plates" hits Candido on a road going through the canyon (Boyle 3). While the lives of these t...

attempt to free themselves. What he has realized is that what they had seen all along on the wall of the cave were mere representa...

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

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

behold his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final...

has not lost beauty, only become more spiritually connected with the land as she takes on the guise of earth. This is because she ...

ambitious path than romanticism (Liebman 417). In fact, Frost tries to make every poem a metaphor to show his commitment to thes...

can see that the Hills, which the man remarks are like White Elephants, "refer to the shape of the belly of a pregnant woman, and ...

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