.... decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surroundings, he seems to have a heightened sense of unreality, as if he is hallucinating. Poe uses descriptive words such as decayed, strange, peculiar, gray, mystic, Gothic, pestilent, dull and sluggish to help set the unusual, gloomy .....

.... the scarlet letter had the largest impact on Hester, it was a constant reminder of the sin she committed. The "A" she must wear on her bosom completely humiliates her in front of everyone she meets, she begins to even hide behind it, trying to conceal her identity. Hawthorne is referring to Hester in the quote, "The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her and concentred on her bosom" (55). Hester is doing everything possible from going completely crazy. So many people are staring at her as i .....

.... home all his life with the responsibility of his mother and sister. In the end, Tom walks down the fire escape for the last time “following in [his] father’s footsteps” (7). No matter how much he tries to be better than his father is he ends up walking out just like him. Amanda is the one that tries to control Tom and burden him with all the responsibilities. She is constantly nagging him about what he does and how he does it. She tells him to “eat food leisurely, son, and really enjoy it” (1.8-9) when he eats his dinner. She confiscates books by Mr. Lawrence from his room be .....

.... but it isn't a wholehearted choice, it's in her actions but not in her mind. Katherine assumes the role of an obedient, polite wife but she still retains her innate assertiveness. Katherine's being tamed is not a matter of her being cured of her shrewishness but rather her having learned to get along in a man's world. In this play courtship and marriage aren't the result of love but rather an institution that people are expected to take part in. Suitors are not judged by how much they love the woman but how much money and land they can give her. A woman's suitors would all gat .....

.... philosophy has broken away from the more religious idea of destiny and moved toward a more logical aproach to life. Obviously, death is still inevitable, but logically, the future should be altered with each decision. Man has become too egocentric to believe someone, besides himself, can control his life. Loyalty, unlike fate, is still respected as it was in Beowulf’s time, but can get overlooked in modern society. The idea to honor those close was the most Christian element of all the Anglo-Saxon traits. It original from the Biblical ideas of honoring God, honoring parents, honoring ne .....

.... almost the entire raid party is killed when they are ambushed by the Mexican army and the “White Eyes,” as they are referred to in the book. What is left of the entire Apache Nation, his tribe, are forced to surrender to the White Eyes and are taken as prisoners of war to Florida by train. While stopped in Texas for two months, President Cleveland decided that the Apache men where to be separated from their families and held at Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island in Pensicola Bay. The women and children were sent to Fort Marion, Florida. This book is called Runs With Horses because .....

.... that it is probably rather gloomy and untidy because of the dead leaves that cover the woods and walks. This prompts and even more dramatic exclamation from Marianne: “‘Oh!’ cried Marianne, ‘with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall!’” (p. 77). In this line, and in those that follow, it seems that Marianne gets carried away with her appreciation of the dead leaves on the ground. In the description of them as inspiring “transporting sensations” in her, the extent of Marianne’s “sensibility” is aptly conveyed in a very concise scene. The “se .....

.... through the Yeobright family”(Hardy 492). He goes on to say that aspects of the Yeobrights reflect the “condition of man”(Hardy 496). Mrs. Yeobright is quick to pass judgment on others, including Clym. “And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered. Manager to that large diamond establishment –what better can a man wish for? What a post of trust and respect and respect! I suppose you will be like your father; like him, you are getting weary of doing well.” (Hardy 139) Clym, like Mrs. Yeobright, is also quick to judge. He is a man of ideals with .....

.... is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowledge her sin and boldly displays it to the world. She dresses Pearl in scarlet as a second symbol, and wears the scarlet A long after she could have removed it. All these things are proof that she was trying to hide nothing. Hester’s salvation lies in truth. Adultery also led to Hester having psychological consequences. She experienced much shame and guilt. As one of her punishments for her sin, she was forced to stand on a public scaffold while she was made fun of by her peers. The scarlet A followed her around everywhere she went. .....

.... shocked by this total subjugation of the Africans and the completely pointless work which they are forced to perform. Prior to 1807, the Europeans directly enslaved the Africans. After 1807, Britain, and eventually most European countries, banned the slave trade. However, this did not stop the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, whose members Marlow described as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage," from using natives as forced labor for their benefit--the classic definition of slavery. Europeans were also extremely distrustful of the natives. The .....