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- 3031: Vladimir and Estragon: A Symbol of Man
- ... York: Grove Press, Inc., 1954) 8 left. 2 Beckett 8 left. 3 Beckett 11 left. 4 Martin Esslin, “The Search for the Self,” Modern Critical Interpretations Waiting for Godot, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987) 29. 5 Beckett 50 right. 6 Esslin 29 Bibliography Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1954. Esslin, Martin “The Search for the Self.” Modern Critical Interpretations Waiting for Godot. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 1987.
- 3032: Edward Gein
- ... Worden resembled, to some extent, Ed Gein's long-departed mother. (Nash p. 64-70) On November 17,1957 after the discovery of Bernice Worden's headless corpse and other gruesome artifacts in Eddie's house, police began an exhaustive search of the remaining parts of the farm and surrounding land. They believed Eddie may have been involved in more murders and that the bodies might be buried on his land ... the killings. However, after more then a day of silence he began to tell the horrible story of how he killed Mrs. Worden and where he acquired the body parts that were found in his house. However, after days of intense interrogation he finally admitted to the killing of Mary Hogan. Again, he claimed he was in a dazed state at the time. (Skeletons in the Closet ) His condition was attributes ...
- 3033: Wuthering Heights
- ... helps to set the mood to describe the characters. The reader finds two households separated by the cold, muddy, and barren moors, one by the name of Wuthering Heights, and the other Thrushcross Grange. Each house stands alone, in the midst of the dreary land, and the atmosphere creates a mood of isolation. These two places greatly differ in appearance and mood. Wuthering Heights and its surroundings, depicts the cold, dark ... the best of friends, a freindship that turned to love with time. Heathcliff, because of his social class was often judged as being "A wicked boy, at all events, and quite unfit for a decent house" (45), by strangers and even some members of his adopted family. Because of his childhood disturbances and harsh treatment, Heathcliff became a very hardened person filled with rage and dark features. He is described as ...
- 3034: A Domestic Dilemma
- ... the afternoon you’re trying to make me out a drunkard." in a sharp, unforgiving tone. Martin becomes frustrated knowing that he is not able to trust his own wife with any responsibilities around the house because of her intoxication, "If you could only realize how sick I am - how bad it is for all of us." He pleads with Emily and tries to calm her often, but underneath his calm ... in most homes where various discussions and most of the action takes place. The kitchen is often the only room where a whole family will meet at one time. Two event takes place in the house’s bathroom. The incident of Emily bathing Marianne and dropping her, and also the loving and careful bath Martin gives his children, and pulling Andy’s tooth. The setting for these events creates a comparison ...
- 3035: The Awakening: A Woman's Fight for Independence
- ... break that label; she fights to do as she wishes. Little by little she breaks free of society's' image, letting her independence shine through. She cancels her Tuesday socials and helps out around the house doing little chores. The biggest step she made was her decision to move away from her mansion and into the "pigeon house", a little cottage around corner. After this move she was free to explore her new profound freedom and desires. She succumbed to the passion in her heart and had a meaningless affair with Arobin, a ...
- 3036: Social Injustices in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... fell out of the tree...I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things." Nowhere else is Twain’s voice heard more clearly than as a mob gathers at the house of Colonel Sherburn to lynch him. Here we hear the full force of Twain’s thoughts on the hypocrisy an cowardice of society, "The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of ... what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for ourselves and the ability to stand on our own and do something about it. We are that mob that stood outside Colonel Sherburn’s house, we are the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, and we are the King and the Duke, and even the foolish townspeople in every town they conned. Somewhere along the line we must become I, someone has to ...
- 3037: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall: Ellen Weatherwall
- ... of the jilting, she has a home, husband, and children. (Mooney, 48) “Tell him I was given back everything he took away and more. Oh, no, oh, God, no, there was something else besides the house, the man, and the children. Oh, surely they were not all. What was it? Something not given back…”(DeMouy, 47) In everything Ellen wants an identity that you can only receive when you are married ... an endless darkness and this darkness would curl around the light and swallow it up. God, give a sign! For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped it all away. Oh, no, there is nothing more cruel than this-I will never forgive it. She stretched herself with a deep breath ...
- 3038: The Yellow Wallpaper: Oppression of Women In Society
- ... real problem until the end of the story -- at which time he fainted. John could have obtained council from someone less personally involved in her case, but the only help he seeks was for the house and baby. He obtains a nanny to watch over the children while he was away at work each day: "It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby." (164) And he had his sister Jennie takes care of the house. "She is a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper." (163) He does talk of taking her to an expert: "John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the ...
- 3039: Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Kemble Knight: Writing Styles
- ... their literary careers. In Bradstreet’s works, the tone can be seen as very religion-oriented. A true Puritan, Bradstreet exercised plainness even in her diction. In a poem called “Upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666,” Bradstreet is able to express a tender sentiment without being sentimental as a result of her simplistic word choice. Religious ideas also surface as common themes. Bradstreet makes it clear that material ... she was entertained. Her accounts are mostly non-fictional with a bit of reflective observation; she spares no details to good taste. Knight and Bradstreet emerged from very different backgrounds. Bradstreet was raised in the house of a British nobleman. At sixteen, she married a scholar who eventually became the governor of Massachusetts. She came to America with her husband and parents, and she moved with her husband to a small ...
- 3040: Social Injustices in Huckleberry Finn
- ... fell out of the tree...I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things." Nowhere else is Twain’s voice heard more clearly than as a mob gathers at the house of Colonel Sherburn to lynch him. Here we hear the full force of Twain’s thoughts on the hypocrisy an cowardice of society, "The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of ... what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for ourselves and the ability to stand on our own and do something about it. We are that mob that stood outside Colonel Sherburn’s house, we are the Grangerfords and Shepardsons, and we are the King and the Duke, and even the foolish townspeople in every town they conned. Somewhere along the line we must become I, someone has to ...
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