.... Odysseus was so overcome with his hate that he lost control, perhaps it was his years of denying the power of the gods that led him to brutality. Odysseus’s actions are indeed aggressive and morality at this point in his life seems to have faded. All these things considered, the validity of Odysseus’s actions remain fair. Because of his denial of the power of the gods, Poseidon forced Odysseus to the raging sea. For these years that he was apart from Penelope and Telemachus he felt such pain and longing for Ithaka. And when Odysseus returned finally to his .....

.... absorbs history into its own emptiness” (Bernstein 333). Gothic fiction is, quite simply, man taking a “walk on the dark side.” There is, undeniably, no novel which epitomizes the popular Gothic structure more than Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s early 19th-century masterpiece, (actually entitled, , or the Modern Prometheus). According to Greek mythology, Prometheus is a hero who steals fire from the heavens to serve man, but he is ultimately punished by the mighty Zeus, who chains him to a rock, where a vulture feasts on his liver. Inexplicably, h .....

.... momentary existence. Every creator with their respective work/s naturally crave and desire "fame"; they want their subjects to remain fresh in the minds of their audience. Chaucer, while neither totally praising the written nor the oral, reveals how essentially the written word is far more likely to become eternal as opposed to the oral. The relative "fame" of any work is dependent on many factors. Many traditional and classical ideas result in the formation of the English canon, yet as Chaucer indicates, the "fame" of these works can easily become annihilated. The arrival of n .....

.... suspect him of doing any type of wrong doing. All of his coworkers looked upon him as a perfect individual, never falling under the category of fallible. Mrs. Barrows also found it hard to believe, she quoted, “If you weren’t such a drab, ordinary little man, I’d think you planned it all.” The most vivid quality Mr. Martin depicts within the story is his psychological attributes. Mr. Martin had a head for dates when reviewing past events, which would suggest that he was quite organized. Another trait that may suggest that he was organized is how he followed a daily routine .....

.... him if he knew her dead son. She talks endlessly about her dearly departed son’s life and shows him again and again all the pictures of her son. The final picture that was taken of the landlady’s son was of him at his job as a streetcar conductor. All the other occasions that the soldier had seen it he reminisced about his own time spent at that particular terminus. He remembers the pop stand, the trees, the villa with the golden lions, and especially a girl that he thought of often during the war that always boarded the streetcar at that terminus. The soldier never recognizes .....

.... mainstream of white people. Because of the want to fit in, Jeanne accepted white culture's beliefs in terms of school and gender as the way to model her life because it is made fitting in easier. Jeanne seems to have set up her own type of Jim Crow rules, like those in the South. She always had to be complaisant around White people and apologize or be submissive to them even if they were in the wrong. This was not anything that was enforced by law, like in the South, but it was self-enforced because she thought it would win her more respect and maybe gain her entry into the .....

.... he is referred to only as boy. It is here that he forms his “Great Expectations”. From these experiences Pip finds out about what he considers polite society, but Satis House is a place where society is anything but polite. This is exemplified by Estella’s blatant lack of regard for Pip’s feelings; she points out to him for the first time his faults such as his “coarse hands…. thick boots” and the fact that he is nothing but “a common labouring boy”. This not only points out Pip’s own faults but also leads to hi .....

.... this. The white community wanted none of the blacks about in their town. The ignorance of whites or their "misunderstanding" is clear when Griffin is on the bus and requests to get off at his stop. The bus driver refuses;"I can't leave the door open all night". This was just pure disrespect from the driver for he had nothing better to do than wait for traffic. Griffin at the time was exhausted and he was trying hard not to release his rage towards the bus driver. Griffin later writes in his journal "this is the only deliberate act of cruelty that I encountered on any of th .....