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Answered a Question in The Crucible

In the moving climax of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor rips up the...

Answered a Question in The Lady or the Tiger?

Stockton's "The Lady or The Tiger" tells of a land long ago and far away where a...

Answered a Question in The Art of Fielding

In Chad Harbach's fictionalized non-fiction novel The Art of Fielding the reader...

Answered a Question in Grammar

The above questions are all correct, but take a second to look at why they are...

Answered a Question in Computer

Think of software as the programs that make your computer work.  Microsoft Word,...

Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird

During his examination, Tom Robinson tells the court that he helped Mayella Ewell...

Answered a Question in The Lady or the Tiger?

"The Lady or the Tiger" is a perennial favorite in classrooms across the world....

Answered a Question in Death of a Salesman

In the play's Requiem, Linda pauses a moment at her husband's grave to have a...

Answered a Question in Tuesdays With Morrie

As Morrie's health continues to deteriorate, the ninth Tuesday focuses on being...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

In Act four scene 3 King Claudius learns of Polonius's death.  Remember that in...

Answered a Question in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself

In his narrative, Frederick Douglass seeks to educate an uninformed Northern...

Answered a Question in The Crucible

In Act III ofThe Crucible, Abigail begins to see her power weakening.  Proctor...

Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado

Throughout the short story Montresor excitedly and with a since of eerie pride...

Answered a Question in Teachers

I've often posed this question to my student teachers during their first few weeks...

Answered a Question in Political Science

While at this point of the election season it can be easy to throw our hands up in...

Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies

Throughout the novel Piggy is the intelligent, scientific voice of reason.  One...

Answered a Question in The Story of an Hour

Identity and self hood are two specific themes in Chopin's "Story of an Hour." ...

Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet

Inthe play, Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows the outcome of the play even...

Answered a Question in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Edwards, in an attempt to shock and scare his audience into returning to the...

Answered a Question in Macbeth

In this soliloquy, Macbeth debates with himself the plan to kill King Duncan that...

Answered a Question in The Crucible

In Act IV, we see a very different Salem from the beginning of the play.  As the...

Answered a Question in The Crucible

In Act II ofThe Crucible, Mary Warren returns from court and brings Elizabeth...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

In Act I, Scene 5 ofHamlet,the murdered King Hamlet has returned as a ghost to...

Answered a Question in Hamlet

In Act I scene 5, Hamlet's father, the ghost, explains to his son just how he...

Answered a Question in Guide to Literary Terms

In many of Shakespeare's plays he uses figures of speech such as the oxymoron. ...