.... sick. For months he laid in bed in agonizing pain, and the doctors were left without agreeing knowledge on what he had. Close to the end of his life he began to wonder if his life was really what it should have been and whether or not he achieved all he was supposed to. He questioned death as if to ask "What is this? Can it be death?......Why these sufferings?" (Arp, 553) The reader is now left with the question did he die from physical pain or from mental anguish also? It could be said that when he was dealing with his impending death he went through five psychologi .....

.... down before the tree……" History shows that the Bohemian people were constantly revolting for their freedom. This was probably one of the reasons for the religious Shimerdas move to America, to get away from those many "hard times." "All the time she say: 'America big country; much money, much land for my boys, much husband for my girls…my mama, she want Ambrosch for be rich, with many cattle." This must have been the main factor for the move from their "kawn-tree." Unfortunately, not all the Shimerdas were excited by the move. "My papa sad for the old country. He not look .....

.... talking about how they were logging on uncharted territory and this was a bad omen. Woody just laughed and said, “Uncharted territory or not, we have a job to do and I’m not going to let some little thing like this ruin my reputation. I’ll go see what the problem is.” And so Woody packed a bag with supplies and sailed off down the river to find the missing logs. It wasn’t long before the lush green landscape of trees he saw around him became a bare region of stumps and small brush. It was almost as if another .....

.... and during his travels he ended up killing Laius and became the king of Thebes and married after answering the riddle. After Oedipus became King his kingdom was hit by a plague and the only way to stop the plague was to avenge Laius’ death by executing or exiling his killer. Oedipus’ brother-in-law Creon tells him to ask the prophet, Tiresias, who the killer is. Tiresias tells Oedipus that he does not want to know who the killer is, but Oedipus keeps on Tiresias until he tells Oedipus that, "I charge you, then, submit to that decree you just laid down: from this .....

.... sin. Hester chose to stay though, which showed a lot of strength and integrity. Any woman with enough nerve to hold up against a town which despised her very existence, and to stay in a place where her daughter is referred to as a "devil child," either has some sort of psychological problem, or is a very tough woman. The second meaning that the letter "A" took was "able." The townspeople who once condemned her now believed her scarlet "A" to stand for her ability to create beautiful needlework and for her unselfish assistance to the poor and sick. "The letter was the symbol o .....

.... the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them in order to survive. In the end, these women demonstrate tenacity and confidence in themselves. The four main mothers in the novel are shown to be excessively strict, and to put extreme pressure of expectations on their daughters. As the mothers raise their daughters, they are reminded of their childhood, and earlier days. They seem to have had some similar feelings of hoplessness when it came to their own mother's expectations. There is an immense emphasis on honor, obedience and loyalty. Anoth .....

.... at life ,and therefore was "recalled to life." The last and most significant instance of someone being "recalled to life" is found in the last chapters of this book. Sydney Carton has recently switched places with his look alike, Darnay, and is awaiting the guillotine. While Sydney awaits his death he thinks, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Through these words Sydney recognizes that by sacrificing his life for Darnay, a loved one of Lucie, he will be doing the best thing that h .....

.... less a group of people, be so consumed by the pain of the sin-filled world that they could not feel any of the magnificence with which God had created the world? In answering this question, Swift discovered a series of social vices and injustices that perpetuated the painful poverty of the Irish peasantry, and due to his resulting anger felt that it was his God-given job to do something about them. "'What I do is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness around me, among which I am forced t o live'" (Keach et al 372). T .....