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…The House of Seven Gables: What are the effects of “Romance” used in the novel-as defined by Hawthorne in his Preface-on the moral of the story? In The House of Seven Gables Hawthorne uses Romantic elements to make the moral of the story more…

…Type of Work: Gothic horror story Setting An ancient English manor house; nineteenth century Principle Characters An unidentified Narrator Roderick Usher, the Narrator's gravely ill friend Lady Madcline, Roderick's even more in firm sister Story…

…Little House in the Big Woods Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilders “Little House” series. The year is 1871 and five year old Laura Ingalls and her family, Pa, Ma, Mary, and Baby Carrie, live in a log cabin…

…Upon the Burning of Our House “Upon the Burning of Our House”, by Anne Bradstreet, is a very interesting poem. It illustrates some of the puritan’s ideas. It also illustrates many archetypes. Some of these archetypes are helplessness…

…and began reading to him. Noises throughout the dreary house came parallel to the noises of the story. I momentarily glanced at Roderick. He maintained an uncontrollable tremor and rocked from side to side. His ridged eyes were focused on the door…

…In A Doll‘s House, a female protagonist seeking self-worth strikes up controversy. A Doll's House introduces women as having their own purposes and goals. The protagonist, Nora Helmer, develops throughout the play to eventually conclude that her way…

…can be found in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and in Henrik Ibsen’ A Doll House. These are two drastically different stories, yet both Oedipus the King and A Doll House incorporate dramatic as a significant part of each story. The story of Oedipus is a well…

…Nora At the beginning of the play, Nora, who in A Doll’s House is the female protagonist, is portrayed like a doll, hence the title of the play. Her husband, Torvald, talks to her like a little girl, using terms such as “little lark” or “little…

…. A HAUNTED HOUSE is a symbolic representation of Modernism as seen through Virginia Woolf?s style. It is not accidental the fact that it is a short-novel; the profound concentration of images, symbols, connections has a greater impact than it would have had…

…to work in a factory, is January housed in Slaughterhouse-Five. - 1945 Dresden fire-bombed by the Allies. POWs and guards survive February in an underground locker and begin to dig bodies out of the rubble the next day. - 1945 War ends…