.... were doing brave and honorable acts of chivalry, when they were only two fools running around the countryside. Cervantes tries to make his book more interesting with the use of point of view. Don Quixote sees what his mind and imagination create, not that which is transferred through the optic nerves in a very clean-cut scientific manner. He retreats to a world that holds meaning for him. When he first departs, he stops at an inn and his eyes make it a beautiful castle with blushing maids and noble sirs. The wench Aldonza is turned into Dulcinea, his one true love, who he swears by in his b .....

.... and punishment’ in the nineteenth century. Ainsworth started his writing career as a writer of Gothic stories for various magazines. Gothic elements are included in Ainsworth’s novel: the ancient hall, the family vaults, macabre burial vaults, secret marriage, and so forth (John, 1998, p. 30). Rookwood is a story about two half-brothers in a conflict over the family inheritance. The English criminal who Ainsworth decides to entangle in Rookwood was Dick Turpin, a highwayman executed in 1739. However, echoing Bulwer, Ainsworth’s explanation for his interest in .....

.... the plague. He looses his sanity at the end of the book and tries to kill a lot of people. Joseph Grand was a petty official and also a writer. Jeanne Grand was the divorced wife of Joseph. M. Othon is Oran's police magistrate. Dr. Richard is a colleague of Dr. Rieux. Dr. Castel an elderly doctor who perfects a new plague serum. Prefect is the chief magistrate of Oran. The old Spaniard is an asthmatic philosopher. Gonzales, Garcia, Raoul, Marcel, and Louis are Rambert's underground contacts. The novel begins in the 1940's at Oran, in a city on the northern Algerian coast, where the .....

.... house was burned even the machines. When the bomb goes off the people of the town are doing normal activities because they don't know the bomb even went off. The people die from the bomb and all but one house is left standing. Ray Bradbury uses the conflict man v.s. nature to convey his theme that technology will outlive humans. In The "Masque of the Red Death", Edgar Allen Poe conveys his theme through the setting. The seven rooms of Prince Prospero's castle symbolize the life of a person. The seven rooms of the castle are colored coded with the last one being black which stands for deat .....

.... returned victorious from all but his last. In his argument with Unferth, Beowulf explains the reason he lost a simple swimming match with his youthful opponent Brecca. Not only had Beowulf been swimming for seven nights, he had also stopped to kill nine sea creatures in the depths of the ocean. Beowulf is also strong enough to kill the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands by ripping off his arm. When Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is seeking revenge on her son's death, he is able to slay her by slashing the monster's neck w .....

.... always dream of the perfect utopia and expect our world to transform into it. Some of us always look for the easy way out and drugs allow us that. A further similarity of Brave New World to us, is when John is in the hospital after his mother's death due to soma abuse, and witnesses the workers receiving their soma rations. John begins to throw the soma out if the window, causing hysteria among the workers. For these workers soma is everything. They cannot imagine life without it. People addicted to cocaine, heroine and other drugs go through a similar stage called withdrawal. Living without .....

.... is a veteran of World War II, who is caught in a tangled emotional web. The horrors of the war have left him reeling from post traumatic stress disorder. Once a strong, spiritual man who thrived on innocence and tradionional Jewish values, Seymour returns to a materialistc post-war society that does not understand the emotional trauma of a veteran. He finds himself in an emotional whirlwind of which he cannot escape. The Holocaust defied every sense of reason that Seymour had, and he now questions his beliefs and values. He is confused by all of the horrible experiences he faced in Germa .....

.... Thomas, she went on to become a very successful Dental Assistant. In this occupation she assists the dentists in jobs that he or she cannot handle doing by their self. When working this job she also had to raise two young children who she supported extremely well. She would often go out of her way to please my brother and I, giving us usually what we wanted. She did not spoil us though. She knew that spoiling us would not help us as we grew older in the real world. Later in her life she decided that it was time for a change in her everyday lifestyle. She had always wanted to become .....

.... the ranch, their place of work. George immediately feels that he is jeopardizing his relationship with other men in order to defend Lennie’s actions. George is further discouraged when he realizes, based on Lennie’s behavior that he can never be left alone- even to go to the bathroom. Lennie can’t even be trusted not to kill puppies while petting them. Lennie, in fact, goes so far as to kill the owner’s daughter-in-law. By this point, George, a nice yet overly ambitious individual, could no longer control this growing contempt towards his once beloved Lennie. As George’s feeli .....

.... very idea scares Macbeth, and seems impossible to commit. “…Doth unfix my hair…murder yet is but fantastical…”(p19) Act Two 1.) At first Macbeth sees a dagger floating, leading him to Duncan’s room, which existence he questions. After having murdered Duncan, Macbeth is jumpy and nervous, he imagines he hears things when they are owls. He also is afraid that he is damned to go to hell when he cannot say ‘amen’. He is afraid he will not be able to sleep in peace. 2.) At the end of scene two, Macbeth does show remorse that he has killed the King. When he hears the knocking at t .....