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fundamental importance in the Republic of the metaphor of descent and its connection to the two great themes of birth and death, a...

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

of antecedents, tastes, habits, inclinations, and speaking all sorts of sub-dialects of the same jargon, thrown pell-mell into one...

others homely? The title of the episode "Eye of the Beholder," suggests that beauty is, as the clich? goes, in the eye of the beho...

that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...

decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...

theme. Without the skill of Munro, the themes might be buried with just a scant plot controlling the movement of the characters. Y...

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

is so powerful to witness how Moliere never overtly describes the religious hypocrisy at hand, but instead shows the fervor with w...

poetry is to use an economy of language to express ideas that are more complex than the concrete images and words that convey them...

critical reception and the issues and themes addressed in their work. Regionalism A principal thrust in this school was the conc...

the old and sick. There was always room in the safety and warmth of la familia for one more person, be that person stranger or fri...

banks of a "black and lurid tarn" (Poe Usher). As the narrator in both stories is fully aware of who he is, he never bothers to in...

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

The cognitive aspect of the work seems to be the most important. Making a paradigm shift, as the author reiterates, is the highlig...

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

someone is accepted in society. This is but one example, but it speaks of the deeply imbedded social expectations concerning manne...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

this we see the slow development of the monsters position and how he will eventually come to seek revenge. The most obvious for...

took off and many different African people started coming into the region. Many slowly began to leave for less hostile states, suc...

the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...

Notably, Rearick conceptualizes these elements by relating the historical factors, including the conflicts prior to this era that ...

man. Lennie is a simpleton and needs someone to protect him from ranch owners that would take advantage of his slow mentality. Thi...

the criminal justice system, an alliance that provides for better understanding of "the vast psychological perspectives" (Diviny e...

therefore sees the differences between the two as being "artificial" - Dickinson was reclusive, and ridden with doubt, whereas Whi...

or another Jonathan cannot deny that within himself that wants to fly higher and faster, more perfect than before. Eventually, t...

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...