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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

one of greater wealth arrives and asks for her hand. Hamida is not necessarily being mean or cruel and she is not really lacking...

and they offer comfort and information, as in Adas case. Minor characters have the dual purpose in this book of offering more info...

While Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play, he is a central figure from the beginning, as he is discussed by vari...

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...

different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

their lives and their emotions. However, she did have control over Jake, Robert, and Mike because they were lost, part of that los...

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

is considered to be especially significant in regards to the documentation of American history and despite having been written in ...