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

do this type of disjointed reminisce. The story gives a great illustration of how setting can become as real and subtle a charac...

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...

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

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...

accuse the owners son, Johnnie, of trying to kill him. Threatening to leave the hotel, the owner (Scully), convinces him that to g...

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

his dealings with those who are not Indian, or his dealings with his children, and in his treatment of his wife. His pride is wo...

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

in the reigning powers influence over art. In addition, art was commonly used to glorify those in control at the time, a reality n...

inner soul of a woman to be appreciated for the ways in which she makes the lives of her family easier and more pleasant. A native...

as a problem (Frost, 1962). However, later philosophers, as they pondered the nature of the universe, began to see the fact of cha...

life that one would want to aspire toward. And, typically, as in a religious painting, the consequences of not choosing the faith ...

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

way that he feels about himself is not overly shocking to Gregor. His determination to make his train, the fact that he would even...

finds problems there, too, when her uncle becomes sexually interested in her and she agrees, in order to fend of his advances, to ...

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

the perhaps an understanding of fate, on the part of the fish. We are further offered an understanding that the fish is old in the...

him become worried at this change of character and personality. Everyone offers their opinion, but the Queen decides that she will...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

novel reap the ultimate reward of independence, acceptance and long comfortable lives. From the start of the novel, Hesters emerg...

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

moral Shady Hill. Strangely enough, considering that description, there is a great deal of humor in the story, not the least of wh...

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

them - and his brother replied in the affirmative. This seemed satisfying enough an answer to Schubert who passed away later that...