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Answered a Question in History

Hitler's main goal in his lifetime was to enlarge Germany's population and...

Answered a Question in Reference

You can test yourself online for many different attributes such as intelligence...

Answered a Question in As You Like It

Duke Frederick is ambitious, aggressive, despotic, materialistic, and...

Answered a Question in Pride and Prejudice

The opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice does several things very adoitly. It...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

Maybe it makes no difference whether the events described in "Young Goodman Brown"...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

The protagonist is Montresor. The antagonist might be said to be Fortunato for the...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

The text states specifically that "they carved no hopeful verse upon his...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

I do not believe that the story is intended to be taken as a dream--although...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

Hawthorne introduces so many of the townspeople on the way to the orgy or in...

Answered a Question in Washington Square

The short novel has a fairly simple construction. The conflict involves two men...

Answered a Question in The Open Boat

The main theme of "The Open Boat" is Stephen Crane's favorite theme of the...

Answered a Question in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson was a well-known writer in his day. Many Americans owned...

Answered a Question in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll is afraid of Mr. Hyde because he doesn't know what he might do in that...

Answered a Question in Young Goodman Brown

Frankly, I found the story amusing. It resembles some of Chaucer's stories in The...

Answered a Question in The Tempest

Prospero's line, "'Tis new to thee," might have gotten a lot of laughter from...

Answered a Question in Literature

C. Auguste Dupin was an amateur detective. Poe invented some of the crucial...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

A man wants to commit a murder but he doesn't want to get caught and punished....

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

The coat of arms that Montresor describes is so bizarre that it could be entirely...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

Since Montresor has been lying to Fortunato all along--even lying about the...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

I don't believe that Montresor's sanity or insanity are important. In either case...

Answered a Question in Reference

The hard way to do it is to buy a copy of the APA style manual. The easy way...

Answered a Question in Communism

It isn't just greed that makes communalism unworkable but the differences in human...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

I have previously suggested that both Montresor and Fortunato are aristocrats but...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

It would be difficult to improve on Poe's story, but it has occurred to me that...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

Fortunato does not seem like an insulting person, but the narrator only specifies...