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… people in puritan society during the 17th century. At that time, people are filled with hysteria and phobias of witchcraft, which soon led to ridiculous accusations of innocent people. The main instigator of the story is Abigail Williams, a teenage…

… was in the last year of high school. A senior as they called it. The most popular girl in the school, and of course I was the head of the cheerleading team. I had golden blond hair that went down to the middle of my back, with dark blue eyes and full…

… the 1970s. The action focuses on the Jarrett family--Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the action of the book begins, there was a second Jarrett son--Buck--who was killed in a boating accident over a year before the novel begins. After…

… Coppola wanted to draw the greatness of the film from the greatness of the novel, the section most like Heart of Darkness is the weakest because he makes the rather romantic assumption...(Hagen,301) Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the…

… and movies, one can always find a masterpiece that stands out due to its originality and its perplexing narration. For example, on the Memento official website, many words from the critics, especially the phrases "a psychological brain-teaser" or "intell…

… main idea of the short story is about a boy and his family. They have a very hard winter, their father is sick in bed from a flu. They had a bad harvest this autumn, and have almost nothing to eat. They are striving to survive; the mother decides to…

… was better that Lennie died talking to George about his dream of the land, the only thing he really wanted, rather than the other men from the ranch yelling at him for killing Curly's wife. There were many examples of foreshadowing in this novel. They…

… sa panitikang Iluko ay hindi lamang isang pag-aaral sa kasaysayan nito kundi pati na rin ang pag-unlad ng kulturang Iluko. Ang panitikan ay tinitignan bilang isang dokumentong panlipunan dahil hindi ito isang uri ng sining lamang kundi ayon kay…

… Shaw's Pygmalion seem to present a straightforward contrast between male figures of authority and passive women? Both Richard Strauss and Bernard Shaw adapt from popular myth and legend in their work Don Juan (1888-1889) and Pygmalion (1912).…

… written tale. Beloved begins in the late 1800's in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sethe, a former slave, lives with her eighteen-year-old daughter Denver. Sethe's mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, lived with them until her death eight years earlier. Just before…