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- 5641: "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reve's Tale": Similarities
- ... her. The situation is very similar to "The Reeve's Tale." In that tale the Miller lets John and Alan, two scholars, who lost their horse from the Miller's own doing, stay at his house. However, since the two boys are "Headstrong
and eager for a joke" (110), Alan proceeds to rape the Miller's daughter, while John sleeps with the Miller's wife. It is apparent that these situations ...
- 5642: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz: Duddy
- ... to bang as soon as he entered the bank, but nobody questioned the signature on the cheque, and so he rushed down to his own bank with it and deposited it there. Rushing into the house, he announced, "I've got the money.' " (p.304) Yvette, Duddy's girlfriend, who greatly aided Duddy in his pursuit of the dream, tries to help Duddy understand relationships. Yvette is Duddy's first serious ...
- 5643: The Odyssey: Telemachus And His Development
- ... Odysseus would kill all of them for being treacherous beings, while Telemachus does nothing but whine. Telemachus says "how his noble father might come back out of the blue, drive the suitors headlong from the house, and so regain his loyal honors, and reign over his own once more"(The Odyssey, Homer, 1980 Oxford University Press, W. Shewring)(pg. 17) It is not till Telemachus receives divine attention that he even ...
- 5644: Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie
- ... Laura-- delicate,sadly different,an anomaly in the modern world.The glass motif recurs throughout the whole play in many other forms.When Laura dropped out of college she constantly visited the zoo,a glass house of tropical flowers that are as vulnerable as she is.During Laura's and Jim's brief romantic encounter,Laura is gaining more confidence about herself.It seems as if she is starting to escape ...
- 5645: Lord of the Flies and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Similarities of the Characters
- ... friend of Dr. Jekyll. Lanyon is a significant character of this book because he later on reveals the double identity of Dr. Jekyll. Poole is Dr. Jekyll's chief servant , he takes care of the house , he has also been with Dr. Jekyll for a very long time. Bradshaw is the character who guards the back entry of the lab. Mr. Guest is Mr. Utterson's secretary who finds the similarity ...
- 5646: An Analysis of Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Devil and Tom Walker
- ... happen. Also in both they take place in remote areas. Next we have the husband wife relationship in both cases. Now Rip was sort of a say nothing do nothing when it came to his house and wife. His wife would bad mouth him and yell at him, but Rip wouldn't do much anyway. He would just go off and sleep. Now Tom and his wife on the other hand ...
- 5647: Of Mice and Men: The Feeling Only the Lonely Could Feel
- ... stereotyped her and refused to talk to her on the Ranch. Curly's wife had dreams of becoming a great actress in the movies, but married Curly because she wanted to get out of her house. Her loneliness was not the worst kind. She was however almost as much exciled as Crooks, yet she allowed her position on the Ranch manipulate others so she could have friends. All these characters were ...
- 5648: The Scarlet Letter: Hester and Her Daughter Are Isolated From Society
- ... live in the abandoned cottage (Hawthorne 78). Hester tells the magistrates that she is going to stay in town, since it reminds her of her sin and in that way punishes her(Hawthorne 78). This house was far enough from civilization that Hester and Pearl did not have a friend in the world besides each other. Pearl, is a descendent both of sweet children who fashioned a play maiden out of ...
- 5649: Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian
- ... safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in a ...
- 5650: Cooper's "Deerslayer": View of the Native Americans
- ... Hurry are brought across even clearer. But it is another character, Tom Hutter, who also plays an important role in Cooper's presentation of the Indians. Hutter's significance first involves where he lives. His house is located directly in the center of Glimmerglass. This suggests, symbolically at least, that he is involved in the center of activities, whether moral or immoral, within Glimmerglass. In addition, more than living in the ...
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