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human being. Her song on the "blond wood psaltery" produced a "crystalline sound like water purling between stones" (82). As this ...

and, determined to prove to his mother that he is not unlucky like his father, Paul supernaturally begins the attempt to change th...

part of Chaereas, but because the decline of this young man serves to rally the entire community and the assembly appeals to Hermo...

them up for scrutiny. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these romantic medieval values clashed with the new emphasis on re...

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

to the Siren and also in descriptions of her performance of Clytemnestra. Nevertheless, Thackeray leaves her in a life where she "...

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

how her husband clearly has no idea what is bothering his wife, although he clearly also presumes to have the answer in taking her...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

more valuable male to another as Amir is in a far better social and economic position than Hassan. While he clearly adores his fri...

was, and it should be said that this was a different place and time. Yes, the people did not have abundance, but also, one can say...

Michael is illegitimate, a revelation that he accepts cheerfully-a very strange thing for a Catholic priest to do (Dancing at Lugh...

is doing is supporting him and encouraging his dreams, although they are false. Because of this sort of set-up we are immediatel...

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

the white race is far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts is not something that will ever be carried th...

not part of the solution. He begins to understand that change does not happen in one fell swoop, but that it is a slow process, mu...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

of human beings. Each character comes with their own subplot in which a facet of human existence is discussed and examined. S...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

The reason Koestler has given these injuries to the man who once led the revolution is that he is now aged, useless, and must serv...

antagonist, Count Dracula that encompasses both sexuality and perversity. In the oft-analyzed Chapter III, the unconscious Harker...

Before he begins the tale, he explains that he is a greedy devil, and it is through his physicality and his voice that they are di...

There is no question that death plays a major role in this story, as evidenced not only by all the dying patients but also through...