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at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

(Burton, 1985). He tried to talk her out of it, but she insisted, and thus began the thousand nights, for each night she would end...

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

Faulkner writes that the druggist questions Emily about the use of the arsenic and explains that he by law must ask her about her ...

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

"We are two-legged wombs, thats all; sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices" (Atwood, 1986, p. 136). Because they are fertile they ...

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

toward improving quality of life" and this goal entails the factor of problem solving (Peed, 2008, p. 22). By focusing on the un...

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

same as it would be had Genjis father actually fathered the new baby. Yet, this baby takes the throne as it is not revealed who t...

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Elisa carried with her always, always feeling and smelling and tasting the day. The garden hose water, which tastes like no other ...

he decides to proceed anyway. Clearly, the dark, cold, unforgiving surroundings that encapsulate the guest as his driver leaves h...

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

what anyone tells him at face value, though as the story wears on a touch of skepticism begins to creep in. Especially when he spe...

how so many consumers have come to think of shopping and accumulating things as something of a hobby, even a passion. People ident...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

grief-stricken protagonist/narrator who is mourning the loss of his beloved, Lenore, and has perhaps taken to drink much as Poe ha...

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

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 ...

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

her article, Obdurate History: Dinh Q. Le, the Vietnam War, Photography, and Memory, Moira Roth has traveled back to Vietnam to le...

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...

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