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the whales as evil, or the one particular whale as evil, has infiltrated the beliefs of the men on board as well: "The whalemen be...
the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...
While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...
black women -- they strive, sometimes they fail, but they are who they are. Ben As narrator for this novel, Naylor brings back t...
the narrator informs the reader, looks at his wife as she were a "valuable piece of personal property" (Chopin 4). It is largely E...
purity of Jane, as a potential, "better" wife for Rochester (267). It also allows Rochester to vindicate himself at Berthas expens...
soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...
exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...
remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
different from most modern Western cultures. Their way of life worked for them and was ultimately destroyed with the colonists. Wi...
organism. * Dmowskis was a distinctively anti-romantic nationalism. He thought the ideals of Polish romantic nationalism--the bro...
how and why they would be drawn to one another. Perhaps they see in each other traits that they would like to learn or possess. Th...
that Byblis argued with herself that such desires were acceptable to some degree: "Twas thought no sin to wonder at his charms,/ H...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
food as a measuring cup of personality, a leavening for plot, and an ingredient in the theme" (Kellman 435). The contradictions i...
at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...
both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...
since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...
of women in the Bible as well. In these portrayals we learn that there is that there is a certain propriety in the world. Propri...
I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...
the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...
her, it is apparent that his "real" life is with his wife and children, and that Nadine is only on the periphery. It is ironic, of...
rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...
he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...
treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...
In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...
still considers himself superior to black people despite the fact that he himself is part of the lowest echelons of society; he me...