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Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

In three pages this paper examines how symbolism is represented in this epic tale. There are no sources listed....

does not stray far from each authors original intent, he does infuse the stories with his own sense of whimsy and message. In Ant...

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

In a paper consisting of five pages the characters of Offred in The Handmaid's Tale and Bone in Bastard Out of Carolina are contra...

what makes some relationships as viewed by outsiders particularly scandalous. Indeed, the role of class in society represents bot...

unstable" (Bouson, 2001, p. 101). Bouson contends that it is really her shame that is Bones core; and that her deep sense of wor...

These day laborers are obviously the ones who are trying to get by and are juxtaposed to the people who are willing to hire them. ...

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which society suppresses the individual as represented in Brunner's 'The Sheep Loo...

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

literal hell on Earth and suffering a subsequent crisis of faith, redemption is possible. The narrator eventually arrives at a wor...

In seven pages Poe's life and works are examined with a focus on the theme, symbolism, and meaning of 'The Tell Tale Heart.' Six ...

In five pages Poe's detective tale is examined in terms of the protagonist's superior class attitudes that are revealed when he in...

In five pages this paper examines the importance of social mobility in this Alger tale that defined the story of the American conc...

In six pages the problems surviving parents have following a child's death are examined with topics of communication deficiencies,...