.... deprive him of triumphs that would result in him being miserable. The degree of evil within Dorian increases as the plot develops. By trading his soul for his youth, Dorian rids of the good inside of himself. The plot proves to us that evil does actually lie within an individual. From the moment that he becomes forever young he begins to deteriorate. Even once he reached his epiphany and saw his evil through the portrait he simply denied seeing it and continued his malicious deeds. The characterisation of the book is one of the most important elements of this book. Dor .....

.... been identical. With the coming into being of written word, these stories could now be put down for people to read and serve as a reminder of their folklore. Not only to them, but to future people who come to read these documents. We have been lucky in the fact that over the last few hundred years, we have recovered many works from all over the world, dating back through years that had been long forgotten to many of us. In a great many of these works we have come into contact with many tales of heroism and the fight between good and evil. Just as the heroism in these storie .....

.... learned behavior. People react the way they are taught. Mrs. Mallard was a devoted wife; she certainly learned from her mother how married women behave. She sits in her room, “merely letting impressions of the outer and inner worlds wash over her” (Papke 132), trying to make sense of all the emotions that are suddenly falling on her. First, she is afraid of this new feeling of freedom, something different that she never experienced before. She is frightened because she was not born to be independent and “it is not of her true womanhood world; it reaches to her from the lar .....

.... is mentally incapable of clear thought. In other words, this section of the book appears to be a jumbled mess of sounds and senses at first glance. However, this section can be "translated" to make some kind of sense. Once this happens, the story does make sense and does serve a purpose. The main conflict of the story revolves around Caddy's promiscuity. Each character takes some position regarding this fact. Benjy, as retarded as he is, is the only one capable of telling an unbiased version of the story. Because he cannot think rationally enough to decide a position o .....

.... story, I felt that Sammy was feeling trapped in life by his job. When Sammy made reference to him making a song up for when he was done ringing someone's groceries through the till, "'Hello (bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)!' - the splat being the drawer flying out.". Sammy knew he had been working there for a long time and was getting sick of working there. I believe Sammy felt as if he was placed in the job and was never going to move. Sammy was given the job from his parents knowing the manager. I don't think Sammy had the feeling that he went out and .....

.... the killer, and the ghost wasn't part of his imagination. Of course then again, if he didn't have to prove it to himself, then he could have killed Claudius right away. The play did come with a success. Claudius did show his disapproval of the play, proving to Hamlet that he was the killer. Give me some light. Away! -Claudius, Act III, Scene ii 275 But this leads to Hamlet's second hesitation moment. While Claudius is trying to confess his sins, Hamlet sees a window of opportunity. He could kill Claudius with no one around and no one to witness, but Hamlet had se .....

.... of the people he names are dead. That's why he is so lonely all the time. Holden finds things in common with Allie and James Castle and since they're both dead he feels, in the back of his mind, that he should also be dead which makes him depressed. Another example of a fall for Holden is when he realizes he can't erase even half the "fuck you's" in the world. This doesn't sound very important, but it is symbolic because he realizes that he can not be the catcher in the rye. His dream of shielding all the innocent children from society's harsh elements has been ruined b .....

.... Huck. During the day Pap would lock Huck in the cabin until he returned in order to keep Huck from escaping. Nothing can harm a child more than neglect and abuse. The two ladies that take Huck in off the streets are Mrs. Watson and the Widow Douglas. Mrs. Watson has several slaves, one of whom was Jim. It gets to the point where she had no more use for Jim, so she decides to sell him to New Orleans. Her actions are going to separate and destroy a family. Jim decides that he would rather run away than be torn from his family. This is another example of society b .....