.... a beautiful representative of quality to an ugly holdover from another era. Similarly, Miss Emily has become an “eyesore” for instance; she is described as a “fallen monument”(Faulkner 204) symbolizing her former beauty and later ugliness. Like the house, she has fallen from grace. Once she had been “a slender figure in white”(Faulkner 207) later she is obese and “bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water with eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face”(Faulkner 205). Both the house and Miss Emily have suffered the ravages of time and neglect. Just as the hou .....

.... have o'erpowered such force as ours." - after losing an entire battle force of Angels to him. God being all powerful is evident within the Catholic and many other faiths as they pray for his power to extend unto themselves. The power of God helps to stir within all, Catholics especially, a feeling of strength. This strength comes from knowing God shares his power among each of us. His power is shared amongst us because we do not doubt him or tempt him, as Satan did. As Satan witnessed firsthand, many people dare not risk angering God to his fullest extent. Another idea .....

.... girls would go to an old maid to hear fantastic stories about “love, lovers, mistresses, persecuted women… gentlemen brave as lions, gentle as lambs, impossibly virtuous, always well dressed, who wept copiously” (Flaubert 57). When Emma married Charles, she expected this perfect man whom she had pictured from the many romantic novels she had read. It is these fairy-tale illusions that slowly bring the world crashing down on her. Emma’s illusion of love and grandeur came from her knowledge of romance novels. After she had married Charles, she came to the conclusion that t .....

.... and they are also setting the table together as a family. The adults' roles and responsibilities to the children seem to be very positive, understanding, and supportive. There are moments when the parents act silly with the girls, and they also discipline them at appropriate times. The stepfather seemed to have slipped in very casually. He let the girls know that he did not want to take their daddy's place, but they can call him papa. The stepfather, who is a forest ranger, also takes the girls to work with him sometimes. The children's roles and responsibilities to the .....

.... attain social recognition. At least, not until the opportunity presents itself. Thus, through a series of events, Bernard uses the curiosity of the society to his advantage, fulfilling his subconscious wish of becoming someone important; a recognized name in the jumble of society. This ends when the curiosity of others ends, and as a supreme result of his arrogant behaviour, he is exiled. The instigator of this curiosity as well as the author of Bernard's fame (and folly), is an outsider know as the Savage. The Savage is brought in from outside of the utopian society by Bernar .....

.... keep her happy. When he lost his job, he earned mony immoraly. He does not do this for himself, but for the welfare of Ona and the family. Eventhough he inevidably fails, he does everything in his power to be an ideal husband. Rudkis, like many other good-hearted people, had to circumb to the evil powers of greed. He buys an expensive house that he could not afford. He could settele for a house of lesser value that suits his needs just as well, but he doesn't. Eventhough he is somewhat conned into buying it, his greed still convinced him. Shortly after this, he is so eag .....

.... heroic (male) American past is forged by the fact that he wears a pair of shorts decorated with "big white whales" which recall Melville's Moby Dick. Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at Oregon State, Chief, a Literary major'" who made him the present "'because she said I was a symbol'" (69). Melville is a by no means unambiguous writer. Indeed, in Moby Dick, the white whale may be seen as a symbol of impenetrability which forms the book's focus over its "hero" Captain Ahab. .....

.... When Icarus flew too high -- too near the sun -- in spite of his father's warnings, his wings melted, and he fell into the sea and drowned. His more cautious father flew to safety (World Book 3). By using this myth in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Portrait of the Artist), Joyce succeeds in giving definitive treatment to an archetype that was well established long before the twentieth century (Beebe 163). The Daedalus myth gives a basic structure to Portrait of the Artist. From the beginning, Stephen, like most young people, is caught in a maze, just as his n .....