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…Ben was a really thin teenager. He had burnished dark hair and sharp blue eyes. He was slender and gangly. He had a pale face that always had a frightened look when he was with people. Alone he highlighted the perfection of his face strikingly when he…

…. Catherine had a kind heart. She cared of Heathcliff. She also had a sacrificed heart. When she did anything wrong, she would reflect her mistakes. Sympathetic means being kind to somebody and kind- hearted. Catherine was kind to Heathcliff when she was young…

…grant me in Thy Word to see A risen Saviour beckoning me. No evil then my heart shall fear In the dark valley. Thou art near! My trembling soul and Thou, my God, Alone are there; Thy staff and rod Shall comfort me. O gentle Dove, How much Thy holy law I love…

…explodes from within the veil of the place of judgment and tender mercy: "I am bound to wear it ever, both in light and darkness, in solitude and before strangers, so with my familiar friends. No mortal eye will see it withdrawn. This dismal shade must…

…proud of it." In 1896 he married Jessie George and the year after that The Nigger of the Narcissus was published, that same year he became associated with Blackwood's. His son was born in 1898 and his book Heart of Darkness began to be serialized…

…A very wisely. The dark and gloomy colors of Hester's clothes show the grief and the guilt that she goes through. The color of the scarlet letter is very important because the crimson color signifies the devil. Since Hawthorne selects the novel's setting…

…heart. Keats states, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk" (1-2). The reality is that Keats is dying from his disappointing life and has few good things to anticipate for the remainder of his life…

…is defiling the holy ground that God created. The sestet seeks to explain God’s magnificence by contrasting the dark scene of the octave to the constancy of God’s grace and continued relationship with man. I believe Hopkins is saying that the grandeur of God…

…the reader´s attention. Even though he lead a tough life and was known as a sadistic drug addict and alcoholic, he still managed to produce great pieces of literature. Three of his greatest works were "The Tell Tale heart", "The Fall of the House Usher…

…to discover some evil inside her daughter. "Day after day, she looked fearfully into the child's ever expanding nature, dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity, that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being" (61). Hester…