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grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story" (Poe NA). The narrator immediately informs us that something horrible and...

"girl" in reference to this female, a choice which would appear to indicate that she is somewhat younger than her companion yet He...

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

Clearly this essential theme is one that speaks of a cultural nightmare for the idea of feminism. Women today are women who unders...

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

It comes to pass that Don Quixote and some of his friends are staying at an inn, and the innkeeper is nearly as...

not something that had occurred to him earlier. The murder appears to stem solely from the fact that the narrator has the power in...

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...