.... by the realization of his folly and his descent into madness. The play begins with Lear, an old king ready for retirement, preparing to divide the kingdom among his three daughters. Lear has his daughters compete for their inheritance by judging who can proclaim their love for him in the grandest possible fashion. Cordelia finds that she is unable to show her love with mere words: "Cordelia. [Aside] What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent." Act I, scene i, lines 63-64. Cordelia's nature is such that she is unable to engage in even so forgivable a deception as to satisfy an old king's vanity and pride, as we see again in the follow .....

.... be. Then you’ve got them right where you want them� (261). Keating was so narrow-minded that he did not know that that secret was not a rare one at all. Much of the world knew and exercised this information everyday. Keating said that if you became what people wanted you to be then you would have them right where you want them. Keating must have wanted them playing with his soul then. Because when a person becomes what people want him to be he opens up his soul to be influenced. When a person gives pieces of your soul to too many people he is left with an empty shell. In effect that person becomes a virus, living off the souls of others .....

.... mystery that he is, Gatsby is this "silhouette of a moving cat," and lives his life this way. As this quote shows, Gatsby emerges from the shadow to reveal himself to Nick (who is one of a very few amount of people that he confides in with the truth of who he really is). Whether Gatsby is throwing extravagant parties in his own home or with a small group of people, who he is remains a secret. Gatsby is constantly encompassed by darkness and secrecy When Gatsby threw his large parties, he was rarely seen amongst his guests and was most often alone, observing them. "Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another." .....

.... own precious lives, rather than be respectable and see the vulnerable women on board the lifeboats first. I don't believe this terrible incident has any relation to my experiences because I have never experienced being on a cruise ship and then suddenly realized that my worry free vacation is going to turn out to be a horrifying nightmare. Walter Lord writes, "I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern ship building has gone beyond that." (Pg.21) I chose this excerpt said by Captain Smith because it proves how people can be so ignorant when it comes .....

.... to “The Bridges� in one way, “The Storm’s� setting was also on a farm, but it was in rural Louisiana, and the time frame was different, “The Storm� was placed or around the early 1900’s. The novel, The Bridges of Madison County involved one family just as the “The Storm� had, but in “The Bridges� the married couple, Franchesca, and Richard Johnson had two children, Michael, and Carolyn. “The Storm� involved one married couple, Calixta and Bobinot, they to had children but only one, named Bibi. In both of the stories, there was a man who interrupted the day to day life of the two wives. In “The Bridges�, the m .....

.... “skill�. This is where Mintz’s theory that plantations were a “synthesis of field and factory� is best explained; “The specialization by skill and jobs, and the division of labor by age, gender, and condition into crews, shifts and ‘gangs,’ together with the stress upon punctuality and discipline, are features associated more with industry than agriculture – at least in the sixteenth century� (Mintz 47). Plantations required a “combination farmer-manufacturer�. Workers on plantations worked assiduously with a definite sense of time. They worked continuous shifts, resting only form Saturday to Monday morning. Mintz goes on t .....

.... fascination as their home is destroyed (Walker 73). Dee believes that her mother subjects her family to substandard living conditions, by choice. In a letter to her mother, Dee writes, no matter where she (Dee’s mother) “chooses� to live she (Dee) will manage to visit (Walker 73). Although Dee indicates that she will visit, shame prohibits her from revealing what she considers an inferior home life to her friends. Her mother realizes Dee’s embarrassment and knows “she will never bring friends [to the house]� (Walker 73). Unfortunately, the manner in which Dee chooses to alleviate the shame of her heritage, seemingly with no regret, .....

.... - Starkfield (Ousby 154). Every feature of the landscape seems to relate directly back to the people of the town, whether it be the town as a whole or a specific place. For example, Starkfield was a dreary town, "buried under snow, silent and incommunicative as the characters (Nevius 136)." Even Ethan’s farmhouse was symbolic of himself. The "L" of the farmhouse was like that of his own body, shrunken and weak (Nevius 136). Ethan himself represented Wharton’s idea of a honorable man in the nineteenth century. He has admirable qualities, such as integrity, ambition, and wisdom (Magill 531). It is his sense of morals and responsibility .....

.... China’s “long eighteenth century?” This is especially true for upper class women. The philosophical idea of yin and yang is found throughout Chinese culture, literature, and social structure. The idea is that the world is made up two opposite types of energy which must be kept in balance with one another. Neither is greater than the other, or more important than the other. In respect to gender, yin is female and yang is male. Yin is private life within the family and yang is public life outside the family. Men were to focus on public life and outside affairs and support the family while women were to focus on private life and supp .....

.... readers and it should not be underestimated by the power that it may hold. Although, it must hold to its meaning, we can not allow it to steer us to the wrong's of the world today. Shelly Fishkin suggests Mark Twain has "obscured" the African American roots when writing Huck Finn. Jim, as suggested by Fishkin, has been plagued with a dialect that should not be represented by the African American race during that time. The question is raised by Fishkin as to if Huck Finn was black? This in turn would take away from the whole basic outcome of the moral lesson that we are all so desperately wanting to hear about. I found it almost appalling to .....