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In eleven pages Franklin Pierce's life and undistinguished presidential administration are discussed and include his friendship wi...
close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...
attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...
we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...
Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...
about the less-than-illustrious Snopes clan of Yoknapatawpha County, a family that appears in most of Faulkners works. In both sto...
the circumstances surrounding their creation and the manifest events of the plot differ quite dramatically. For instance, one migh...
are the core of moral tradition as defined within the context of societal constraints. Most people associate moral tradition with...
fighter due to the story regarding her missing teeth. In that incident she was demanding that an individual pay her for the work s...
below. The Faulknerian characters viewpoint is that ...of a passenger looking backward from a speeding car, who sees, flowing aw...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...
scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...
only in the perception of the one who desires it....
predetermined age; moral development continues as the person ages and gains more knowledge, his or her morals also change based on...
have little respect for each other as people. This family, in the end, only gives a surface appearance of going beyond their indiv...
In five pages this paper analyzes The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler in terms of a family's moral connection. Three sources are...
This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...
This paper presents an analysis of William J. Williams' When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor in five pages. Ther...
In five pages the grotesque is analyzed within the context of Faulkner's short story 'A Rose for Emily' and O'Connor's short story...
In five pages this paper discusses how the past is revived in 'Babylon Revisited' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and in 'A Rose for Emily'...
In a paper consisting of twelve pages case examples and statistical data consider the American family changes relative to the work...
kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
to a significantly more positive approach to this modern form of family structure, inasmuch as the high rate of divorce continues ...
In five pages this research paper compares Miller's Death of a Salesman and Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' in an examination of relatio...
heritage that he ignored his wifes infidelity and she ultimately committed suicide. In addition, there is Faulkners Lena Grove, t...
or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...