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All in history, the women have been discriminated since they are the weaker sex and this ha led to the society relating to them negative. This is not exceptional in the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain. The novel displays the role of every woman character and her role as a woman…

Back when I was preparing the Collected Letters volumes for the REH Foundation, I was in fairly regular contact with Glenn Lord. Besides pestering him for copies of Howard’s letters, I was also after issues of The Junto, the amateur press/Lone Scout paper that Howard contributed to from 1928 to 1930. In one of his…

The Swordsmanship of Robert E. Howard Just as in medieval times most men carried swords but the majority were neither duelists nor skilled fencers. (CL2.103) Given Robert E. Howard’s lack of access to fencing instructors (CL3.242), never having entered the military or other occupation where he could receive weapons training, and the general absence of…

Benjamin Banneker, was a well-educated man and the son of former slaves, writes in his letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1791 that slavery is against the foundations that the country based upon itself upon. Banneker supports his argument by recalling texts and moments of history that was crucial to the foundation of America and the…

What connections have you found between the ways in which Plate and Hughes write about the relationship between the individual and nature? Sylvia Plate and Ted Hughes both discuss the relationship between the individual and nature in their poetry. Withering heights’ and ‘Spinster’ by Sylvia Plate discuss the relationship between the individual and nature in…

Kink believes the pearl is evil because so far the pearl has brought them nothing UT bad luck to their family. If this novel would have ended even slightly different it could have changed the characters lives dramatically. If the ending in The Pearl was changed, the characters emotions and final actions would be completely…

The Life and Writings of Sylvia Plath After reading and discussing many poets and their written work, I have realized that not only pain, but any emotion that the poet is feeling, plays a large part in how the poems express themselves through their writing. I have chosen to explore Sylvia Plath and the poems…

Is there enough evidence in the play to suggest that Lady Macbeth is a fiend- like Queen or do you retain a degree of sympathy for her? I don’t think there is a simple answer to this question. I believe that Lady Macbeth did have some human emotions; however she had a dark side. Personally,…

The theme of family is communicated by Shakespeare though the members of the two feuding families, Montague and the Capsules. The continuous ancient grudge between the two families had an influence throughout the whole town of Fair Verona. Shakespeare demonstrates the idea of family through the members of the Montague and the Capsules. The Caplet’s…

His role throughout the story is to lead Animal Farm. He serves as an example that you can’t eliminate corruption by electing individuals and that it is power itself that corrupts. Compare the lives of the animals when they live under Jones and under Napoleon. In what ways has Napoleon proven himself a similar tyrant?…