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… society and her husband. In the nineteenth century women had few alternatives to marriage; they were not expected to step beyond their roles as housewife and mother. Females were confined in every way imaginable. Women were limited by their identities…

… Don Quixote and his fascination with chivalric stories. With his “wits gone”, Don Quixote decides to become a knight and ream the country side righting wrong and rescuing damsels in distress. He outfits himself in some old armor and professes…

… “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” In 1984, doublethink is the normal way of thought, and as a result everyone understands it and practices it. Doublethink is different from changin…

… in order to enhance the thematic interests of the novel. The use of symbolism allows the reader to interpret the story, which in turn, stimulates a more personal, imaginative, and meaningful experience. Scott F. Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, became…

… is the story of a man that represents the common human dissatisfaction with being human. He sells his soul to the devil for what he believes to be limitless power, with full logical knowledge as to the consequences of such a transaction. He knows the…

… based on one character, however in this case there are two. I say this because they are both one. Sound confusing? It should, I had to read lines over and over just to understand it. You see its quite simple, there is one Dr. Jekyll and he is a…

… is a mystifying horror story that occurred sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a young English lawyer takes an excursion to Count Dracula located in Transylvania, in hopes of finalizing a real estate transfer. The novel portrays a gross…

… of mankind,--folly and ignorance,” Shakespeare once wrote. This quotation strengthens Shirley Jackson’s ideas in “The Lottery”, as she very distinctly uses symbolic names for her characters to show the ignorance of the sacrificial lottery the small…

… isn’t filled with dreams, goals and ideals. These things are a part of life and human nature. We all have the inbred desire for a good life. That is we all want to have a nice home, a good job and money, a place to raise our kids without fear or worry,…

… trying to fit the whole world between the capital letter at the beginning and the period at the end of a sentence, and that’s why his sentences tended to be so long. In the very first sentence of his short story “Dry September,” he manages to establish…