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…to find the wife's body and the cat, which had been buried with the body. The next story to discuss is "The Tell-Tale Heart" written in 1843. This story begins like "The Black Cat" with the main character, the narrator, explaining why he had murdered…

…7) Istanbul (Yi Si Tan Bao) Been to many places I come to Istanbul It's just like a fairy tale There are castles and forts Everyday I'm busy searching What is it that I want? I realise that I have lost my way No matter how I search I just can't find…

…“Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer is a modern fairy tale. It tells the story of a once happy family living in an affluent suburb of South Africa who move emotionally from contentment to fear as they protect and isolate themselves from the rest…

…King Lear is a metaphorical tale of an ailing man's journey through hell in order to forgive his sins. Lear's untimely, sinful surrender of his throne results in a chain reaction of events that send him through a treacherous journey. It is a tale…

…, except she knew a whore when she saw one" (111). Proctor’s point was that his credibility should not be questioned, for he ruined his reputation in telling the truth. This characterizes the acts of a courageous man, unnerved by possibilities that could…

…all the dignity and respect that the narrator had at that time. Generally around the 1950s men would sit around old barbershops and tell their “big tales” about how they caught the biggest one yet. Women had their bridge club and also their garden club…

…or perhaps tales of coming of age are more entertaining. The author William Faulkner is well known for stories about the transition from boyhood to manhood. One particular story tells the tale of a boy's quest to hunt a mystical bear named Old Ben. William…

…pertinent. The year 1848, in which Europe was wracked by political upheaval, marked the flood tide of romanticism in Italy, Austria, Germany, and France. In William Tell (1804; translated 1825), by German dramatist Friedrich von Schiller, an obscure medieval…

…in the audience or reader. It is for this reason that William Shakespeare used blood imagery in the tragedy of Macbeth. He used few words to tell the historical tale of a Scottish king and the treachery of his reign. Using blood imagery, Shakespeare reveals…

…, therefore, much criticism of The Scarlet Letter focuses on its relation to history. Many critics have investigated the Puritan laws governing adultery and searched for an historical Hester Prynne. Other critics have used clues within the tale to specify its…