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were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...

In five pages these short stories are compared in terms of the community importance that exists in each of them. Four sources are...

wronged by the people sets out to uncover just how dishonest they truly are, how they do not possess righteousness and that they a...

was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...

find her own identity. In this we can see her as sad, lonely, loving, determined, or ignorant. All of these minute characteristics...

believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...

a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

the remainder of her days with the red letter A embroidered upon her chest as a lasting reminder of her sin. Because Puritan wome...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

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 essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

In eleven pages this paper examines the impact of transcendentalism on the life and writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne with 'Young Go...

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...