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a famous singer, a woman who appears also quite lonely and powerful. Her name is Madame Tradutorri and she suffers at the hands of...

a graduated student of philosophy she has the knowledge and the wisdom to rise above the ridiculous and find truth. But, it is her...

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

of tradition. Just because things have always been done a certain way does not mean that such traditions are good for any communit...

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

now, instead of letting his hands out into the open, he shoves them deep into his pockets and does not talk much. When he talks, t...

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...

definitely engages in what can be interpreted as seductive posturing (Wells 128). For example, as she slowly turns, Sammys stomach...

equivalent of playing Russian roulette, was popular in Japan, but his mother always refused to eat fugu, but decided to do so rath...

inability to understand the calls in the dead of night are paralleled with the frustration they feel at not getting any informatio...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...

white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its ...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

live. "In this theory, Madeline and Roderick (who are twins) represent the unconscious and the conscious, and when Roderick denies...

It is clear early-on that it was common knowledge in the town that Emilys father was abusive -- if not physically, then certain m...

In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...

back to the past, as the young man obsesses over his mother and his search for identity. And, "Although the narrator begins by den...

when they enter it. Fortunato has a bad cough and so, on their way to the wine cellar, Montressor keeps giving Fortunato more wine...

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

However, it is clear from the opening section of the narrative that the unknown writer of the letters has seen a very different...

positively in most of her readers. Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesom...

great pain, screaming, the arrogance of the doctor comes out in the following: "But her screams are not important. I dont hear the...

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

lost. This brings us to one of the differences in the story, yet it also involves a similarity. With Mabel we have a woman who ...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

of his own family history." At this point the critic moves into examining the history of Hawthornes ancestors and the developme...

the line, asking if he can remain there till the storm passes. "He expressed an intention to remain outside, but it was soon ap...

to be dealing with the religious beliefs that he held and those he was questioning at the time. When Young Goodman Brown...