.... 213) This is meaning that if a women tried to play a role in society she was just not taken seriously, or felt like trying to play a role was getting nowhere. The way Gilman describes the wallpaper tells of what the narrator’s mind is thinking, “and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide.”(Gillman 206) She doesn’t think this on the conscious level but more on the unconscious level. When the narrator writes, “(The designs) destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”(Gillman 206) She is sp .....

.... Ethan's lack of financial means and Zeena's health are factors that will never allow him to leave Starkfield. Unable to find any solutions to this problem, Ethan and Mattie decide to commit suicide by sledding into a tree. They figure it is the only way they can be together. The attempt fails, and the two are left paralyzed. Now Ethan's wife must care for the two for the rest of their lives. There were many themes found in Ethan Frome, but the greatest of them all is loneliness and isolation. In college Ethan acquired the nickname "Old Stiff" because he rarely went out with the boys. .....

.... the police came to see about a scream that was reported earlier. The man led them through the house, claiming that the old man was out of town for a while. He finally sat down in the exact spot where the old man had been buried under the floorboards. What eventually made the man confess to what he had done when he imagined that he heard the old man's heart beating from under the floorboards. It got louder and louder until finally he thought they(the officers)were just driving him insane and they heard the heart to and they must have heard it until he just jumped up, ripped o .....

.... her father, until she finds out he is working against the Embassy. Adam Eddington was going to a small island in Portugal, Gaea, to work for Dr. O’Keefe, an acclaimed scientist. At the airport, he meets a girl named Kali. She tells him to watch out for Canon Tallis and Dr. O'Keefe. He meets Canon Tallis and Poly, Dr. O’Keefe’s daughter, and they become friends. Canon Tallis has to leave so he leaves Poly to go to Gaea with Adam. Adam loses Poly. He goes on to Lisbon and meets Kali. Kali brings him to meet her father Typhon Cutter. He has Poly and gives her back to him. .....

.... the English Channel into place. Napoleon's plan was to build a fleet of landing craft, flat bottom boats, powered by sail and oar that could outmaneuver the great English Men of war. The person Napoleon appointed to direct the building of the fleet was Admiral Denis Decres. Decres, in turn, appointed a Flemish engineer, Pierre Forfait, to see to the construction of the landing fleet. Forfait's objective was to supply the French forces amassed at Boulogne with 1300 vessels. One thousand of them were to be utilized for troop transport, the balance were to be armed with cannons and used in the .....

.... mother’s scarlet A as a baby and was attracted to it instantly for some reason. Pearl notices the letter as an infant as her “eyes had been caught by the glimmering of the gold embroidery about the letter, and, putting up her hand, she grasped at it…”(98) and Hester feels the “torture inflicted by the intelligent touch of Pearl’s baby hand.” (98). This seems to suggest that truth was once again revealed to Hester whenever Pearl noticed the scarlet letter and it shows how Pearl seemed to know the significance of the letter as an infant. While Hawth .....

.... that God will “forgive Narciso…” only “…if [Tony] also asks [God] to forgive Tenorio.” (173) In addition, Tony’s maturity leads him to order someone to “go get the lifeguard” (239) during the drowning of Florence. At the same time, Tony notices a “red spot on [Florence’s] forehead where he must have hit the edge of the culvert.” (240) Death, to a six year old, is a mystery while religion is accepted just like the letters of the alphabet. However, Tony’s questions of religion and reactions to death reflect a mindset of someone far beyond his age group. For someone o .....

.... his past as a boy swinging from branch to branch. This fantasy also allows the speaker, not Frost, to escape from the reality of the destruction of the earth. For these reasons, this poem illustrates the battle of the speaker between the youthful thoughts of fantasy and the older, more plausible, facts of reality. The description of the boy swing from branch to branch could also be construed as a metaphor: a boy's actions swinging from represents his learning through feeling out situations and making mistakes while growing. Of course, a boy will learn of balance and heights while clim .....

.... perspective on how American culture has changed, how Twain helped to change it, and why his books continue to raise difficult questions today. When Huckleberry Finn was banned in 1885, officials at the Concord Public Library thought it was "rough, coarse and inelegant,... the whole book being more suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable people." Written in the voice of its young narrator -- who rejects becoming "sivilized" on its first page -- and full of various dialects throughout, the book offended the literary sensibilities of the time. Twain redoubled the insult to the li .....

.... against his own conscience, in the end he was right and Lady wrong. Lady tells when the king is in their castle to “Your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, but be serpent under’t.” What this meant was that looked and talked like an innocent little flower, but under that fake mask he was an evil serpent. I agree that Macbeth was unimaginative to a degree but then again he had an imagination because he saw the daggers before he killed King Duncan, and after he got Banquo killed he saw the image of Banquo in his seat. An example of this is stated here: ”Is .....