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powerless to stop his thoughts about her. His growing physical tensions haunt him as he relives how the light plays on her hands. ...

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

out the way one may have originally intended; as such, a life perceived as less enlightened still encourages - and even requires -...

own death and running away. Along the way, he meets Jim, a runaway slave who is traveling north in hopes of freeing his family. ...

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

he has not really learned a great deal, except to perhaps further solidify his lack of desire to be civilized. In reading this sto...

As he hauls water through the village he is greeted by many who know him. Some of course treat him like a servant but by and by...

the plague will end and his grateful subjects will worship him like a god. However, the aging oracle Tiresias (sometimes spelled ...

deliberation" (Livesley, 2001, p. 22). Lt. Raine is a most conscientious soldier to the point of replacing any semblance of human...

there are certain things a person must do, certain things a man must feel and never turn away from. So many men were lost in their...

journey with a runaway slave and ultimately finds his way back to civilization and a home. Offering a very simple and adventurous ...

fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

is a fact. Troys son Cory wants to know why Rose wants them to build a fence. Cory says, tells Troy "Some people build fences to k...

young girl to embark on this very adult and complex journey? One can see as the story unfolds that Sophies energy, open-mindedness...

thinks himself a hero. When we see the following, that illustrates the position of the narrator in this poem, we begin to see h...

mother, Lady de Courcy, reveals, this woman is no shrinking violet (Knuth 215). Lady Susan uses her feminine wiles whenever the m...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

madly in love with Osen - the cooper" (Saikaku 600). A relevant phrase in literary circles that relates to the overall con...

such endeavors she discovers that this is not the case. She tries to escape through passion, but finds that she is still a woman i...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

whom Bruenhilde had rescued on the battlefield that day. The next characteristic is that of a series of compounding obstacles wh...

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

The depiction of women protagonists in these Chinese movies is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of seven pages. ...

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

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

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...