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Essays 211 - 240
In five pages this essay examines the influence of the Book of Genesis on such authors as William Faulkner and Thornton Wilder. T...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...
her best friend, about Joe Starks, who is an ambitious man that soon becomes the mayor of a small town called Eatonville. But Jani...
In nine pages this paper examines how insanity is thematically and symbolically portrayed the short stories 'The Lottery' by Shirl...
death, Addie exerts control over her family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her ...
whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
What is particularly interesting about these observations as they relate to such works as Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding...
and even tells her grandfather that "I never dreamed [your beard] was a birds nest" (Welty, 47). Stella-Rondo had accused Sister o...
of the story escalates the tension that is associated with this part of the narrative. There is considerable irony in the attitu...
the Old South and the New South which further complicates the matter. In the Old South, the South ruled and supported by slavery...
cohesive literary glue that holds it all together. One of the ingredients of that glue is the use of language. His particular use ...
Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...
"exciting, gripping story of crime and bloodshed" (Anonymous PG) leaves the reader with many unanswered questions, which only serv...
The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...
father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...
this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...
a lady....
appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...
In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...
of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...
This essay looks at "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and presents the argument that this story presents a critique of Southe...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
In four pages That Evening Sun by William Faulkner is examines in a consideration of the interaction between the children and Nanc...
limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...
This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...
of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...
of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...