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

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...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

when examining the beauty in nature. According to a student writing on this subject, Bass (1990) provides many examples of the f...

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

of men" (Dickens V). Carton looks quite a bit like Darnay, however, and in this reality Darnay is set free because it cannot now b...

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

the children, "It was festival, carnival" (line 15). These contradictory images to how house fires are generally perceived are mad...

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

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

forever working in the smithy, making horseshoes and farm implements. They had been friends since they were boys, and it seemed th...

time reader has no idea why. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer...

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...