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…as the signifier of the mythic feminine beauty. This notion originates from society's stereotypical views of the attributes, or positive myths, a woman should possess in order to be deemed sexually desirable. Myth can also affect how a sign is read as it can make…

…turns upside down when she is torn between telling the truth and surviving the trials. John Proctor is the next who is forced to contemplate a choice between the importance of his family and his own name. The third, Reverend Hale, battles with himself about…

…class. Darnay desires a wife as well as a partner in life. He is not looking simply a mother for his children. He marries Miss Manette and becomes a loving husband and father of a daughter; little Lucie who eventually inherits the name and character of Lucie…

…the idea of financial or moral dependence on anyone. His desire for independence leads to the question of whether he is out of touch with reality. "NORA: And, besides, how painful and humiliating it would be for Torvald, with his manly independence…

…. Kino from John Steinbeck's The Pearl and Jack Griffin from H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man both show that their extreme desire for these things leads them to their own undoing through greed, the extremity in the actions they commit and eventually succumbing…

…on the point that Marlowe mixes noble and base, high and low, spiritual and salacious impulses in Faustus's nature from the very beginning. One moment the scholar desires "strange philosophy" and at the next - "the secrets of all foreign kings." The opening…

…. The queen asks, “What is the thing that women most desire?” If the knight is unable to answer the riddle in twelvemonth and a day, then he will loose his head. It is meaningful that the riddle centers on the will of women. In solving this riddle, the knight…

…        By examining the character list, one immediately notices the value Tolstoy places on character. With one hundred and forty named characters and several other unnamed characters, Tolstoy places his central focus in Anna Karenina…

…close. She even implies that they had a homosexual bond by saying that they "had something that had to be kept on ice" (634). Yet Brick is unable to accept the truth because of his homophobia. Like his name suggests, Brick's identity centers around the idea…

…In James Joyce's "Araby" various spaces are used to symbolize guilt, lust and sex. The narrator's desire to venture from home in order to attend a Bazaar, Araby, parallel his desire have his first sexual experience. The narrator's home is a place…