.... Marlow is told that there are enemy natives hidden there, but it is struck by the absurdity of this war with the “darkness” and its invisible forces. Finally, the steamer reaches the mouth of the Congo and Marlow disembarks. Here, he boards another steamer, commanded by a Swede, and starts on his first leg of his journey up the river. The captain tells him of the sad fate of another Swede who had apparently hanged himself. Again and again Marlow is struck by the incongruity of the European presence in Africa. Marlow goes ashore at the Company station, which is surrounded by broken .....

.... novel, this initial realization continues to be reinforced by events. Edna makes a number of painful and complex discoveries about the society in which she lives and awakens to her own potential for passion, desire, and love but “…she reserves her greatest passion for a figure of pure fantasy…”(Wolff 236). Her husband cannot fulfill these potentials “She grew fond of her husband…” but “…no trace of passion…colored her affection”(37). Edna also realizes that Creole society, as represented by both Madame Reisz and Adele, allows men absolute freedom to come and to go as t .....

.... life. He knew Eveline was miserable. Eveline wanted to leave Dublin and marry Frank but something stopped her. The fear of leaving the younger children and having a new life scared her. she would have boarded that ship and never returned to Dublin. At that point in time women had obligations to their families. They were the homemakers who cooked, cleaned, and made sure the children were cared for. This is especially true for Eveline because of the promise she made to .....

.... one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance. When this dream doesn't happen, he asks around casually if anyone knows her. Soon he meets Nick Carraway, a cousin of Daisy, who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when he takes the .....

.... ever created. The product of Hester’s sin and agony, Pearl, was a painfully constant reminder of her mother’s violation of the Seventh Commandment: Thou shalt not commit adultery. Hester herself felt that Pearl was given to her not only as a blessing but a punishment worse than death or ignominy. She is tormented by her daughter’s childish teasing and endless questioning about the scarlet letter and it’s relation to Minister Dimmesdale. After Pearl has created a letter “A” on her own breast out of seaweed, she asks her mother: But in good earnest, now, mother dear, what does .....

.... very old, strong spirit, his age has physically affected him, in war he was brutal, but now he wouldn’t hurt a fly. Surveyor- more in contact with his thoughts than with the real world, motto: “I’ll try, sir!”, described as a rusty sword Author’s title: Surveyor of Revenue One rainy day he looks through old barrels of articles and finds a scarlet letter “A” and a document describing the life of Hester Prynne. He claims that these serve as documents of proof for his novel. (These were never found and were probably made up to give the novel a historical sense.) He decide .....

.... was an underlying prejudice against Indians; their skin color made it easy to identify their race. They were prohibited from many jobs and professions even El Parker, a very well educated Native American, who had to obtain aid of his friend U.S. Grant before he could join the union army and fight in the Civil War. Again the striking similarity to the plight of the European Jews during World War Two, when they were marked with a star and their rights were revoked. These comparisons are quite disturbing and the similarities continue even to the treatment of the gentle California t .....

.... to hunt and kill a pig. Coming from a place like England, he has not had any experience in anything like this before. He is struggling to be a hunter, because right now he still has not made his decent into primitive savagery , which is the way he ends up at the end of the story. But Jack is shown to have primitive urges early. The author says, "He [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up." (p.51) So we see how Jack does have a certain urge to hunt and kill as one of his primitive desires. After a few tries, Jack and the hunters finally catch .....

.... to stand. This metaphor also excellently exemplifies the catastrophe that occurs in Macbeth as both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth try to separate. Macbeth is a eighteenth century play written by William Shakespeare. Using these two metaphors, the breakdown in the relationship between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth and between the king and the thanes and how they perfectly parallel each other because each is caused by Macbeth’s will to be independent According to Webster’s dictionary, the archaic definition of independence is “competence” (1148). To be independent is not to be &# .....

.... young and attractive porter at the Steen Clinic. Peter is also a gifted painter, and is only working at the clinic to pay his living expenses while he waits for a prestigious arts grant to come his way. However, Peter is infected with the arrogance of those who feel that their talent entitles them to liberties unavailable to the rest of society. He lives in a magnificent studio apartment, and owns only the very best painting equipment. He obviously cannot afford this on a clinic-porter’s salary, so he figures out a way to, with Marion Bolam’s help, blackmail former patients into .....