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

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

souls, and rebirth, a central focus in lifes journey for all cultures and time periods. Mankind throughout history has bee...

position to that of management, or even to that of an incredibly successful salesman/employee. His character was weak, and his int...

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

society that Don Quixote escapes, and in books of chivalry, women are honorable for what they refrain from doing. The use of force...

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...

an individual is to relive the medieval times of knight errantry detailed in his favorite books. Changing himself into the dashin...

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

late at night and sprinkling lime around, presumably on the theory that her servant killed a rat or snake and they smell its decom...

friends-who were all at the same class at school-had the idea that war is glorious and noble, an attitude encouraged by their teac...

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

is notable about Tolkien is that his world makes internal sense. Each race (Elves, Dwarves, Men, Orcs, etc.) has a distinct langua...

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...