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Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
In the first paragraph of "The Cask of Amontillado," Montresor explains his vow of revenge. The tone is foreboding already. He is vauge in how he will carry out his vengeance, but he is clear that... -
Answered a Question in Literary Criticism
In literary theory, a structure is a general term. It can refer to linguistic structure: grammar and syntax. It can refer to the structure of how signifiers (words, written and said) refer to... -
Answered a Question in George Washington's Socks
The main characters are Matt, Q, Hooter, Tony, and Katie. They are all part of the Adventure Club. The secondary characters are Matt’s parents, George Washington, Israel Gates, Gustav, the two... -
Answered a Question in George Washington's Socks
Matt is used to all the modern conveniences of the twentieth century: electric heat and light, durable clothing, television, etc. The soldiers he encounters in the eighteenth century have none of... -
Answered a Question in Miss Brill
Miss Brill is extraordinarily lonely. She is unmarried. She teaches English students who are (presumably) the only people she talks to on a regular basis. The narrator notes that the old, invalid... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
In Dialectic of Enlightenment by Adorno and Max Horkheimer, the authors hold that the culture industry denies individualism by coercing people to be no more than consumers of mass art and... -
Answered a Question in Social Sciences
The strength of the public sphere, as a concept and theory, is that it provides a methodology and conceptualization of the "voice of the people." In other words, the public sphere is the direct and... -
Answered a Question in Kurt Vonnegut
In this short story, Dr. Konigswasser has developed a technique that allows one to extricate his psyche/soul from his body and live as a disembodied essence or place it into another body. This has... -
Answered a Question in The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The story begins in the present day in Africa. Harry and Helen are on a safari. Harry is dying. His flashbacks are written in italics. They could be daydreams, but given his physical condition,... -
Answered a Question in Law and Politics
Bhabha is working within the context of deconstruction and post-colonial theory. He examines binary oppositions and how they formulate identity and culture. Think of the oppositions often connected... -
Answered a Question in Roman Jakobson
It seems that one of the main points is that in order to study the "poetic function" (not to be confused with poetry itself), one should study linguistics. And the reverse is true: in order to... -
Answered a Question in The Crucible
Early in Act I, we see how quickly rumors have spread. Goody Ann (Putnam), having lost seven babies, is brooding with negativity and is quick to buy into any notion of evil spirits. Reverend Parris... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In chapter 14, Scout notes that Atticus is a big guy but is agile for his size: For a big man, Atticus could get up and down from a chair faster than anyone I ever knew. He was on his feet.... -
Answered a Question in Of Cannibals
Montaigne does reference a number of philosophers and thinkers in this essay. So, they may well be considered characters because he uses their words and ideas in comparing notions of barbarism and... -
Answered a Question in Topdog/Underdog
With the historical allusions and the complicated relationship between the two brothers, this play is subject to a complex number of interpretations. We can draw a number of meanings from the... -
Answered a Question in Surrealism Is Born
Surrealism emerged in Europe in the early 1900s. André Breton produced the first Surrealist Manifesto in 1924. Breton wanted Surrealism to become a cultural revolution as well as an artistic one.... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
The French word hôte can be translated as "guest" or "host." It is more effective to use "guest" (rather than "prisoner") because of this dual meaning. Given these two meanings, it is easy to... -
Answered a Question in In Another Country
The main conflict in this story, in general, is the struggle of the soldiers in dealing with the traumatic experiences of the war. The more particular conflict with the American (the narrator)... -
Answered a Question in The Circular Ruins
Derrida dismantled the idea that speech is superior to writing. It has been thought that speech is more present (and therefore more "true") than writing because speech is closer to the idea in the... -
Answered a Question in The Blank Page
In general, structuralism is the theory that human culture, behavior, beliefs, etc. all operate according to an underlying structure. This structure is maintained by rules, codes, and meanings.... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
Daru is disgusted by the Arab's act of violence, so we might conclude that Daru is dedicated to peace. This is a possible reason he refuses to get the gun in the middle of the night. Daru is French... -
Answered a Question in The Postmaster
The postmaster is an educated, relatively cultured, cosmopolitan individual while Ratan is an illiterate, uncultured, orphan. Although the postmaster considers writing about the joy of nature while... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
Daru seems stuck in a no man's land between his French roots and a reluctance to condemn the indigenous Arabs of Algeria. He refuses to follow Balducci's orders to hand the Arab over to French... -
Answered a Question in The Lottery
Jacques Derrida criticizes the notion of a pure, original truth. He critiques the idea that speech is somehow a more pure and original truth than writing (as has historically been thought). In "The... -
Answered a Question in Mikhail Bakhtin
Formalist and early Structuralist thinkers failed to articulate a sociological, "living language" in their literary analyses. Bakhtin recognized this and referred to this mistake as a "monologic"... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Chapter 15, Scout notes that Atticus walks to and from his office "four times a day, covering about two miles." This implies that the courthouse is about .5 miles from their home. This... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
The scene and circumstances remind us of the opening scene of the book. Compare the two chapters and the outcomes. Once again, we are at the green pool of the Salinas River. This is basically home... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
There is no overt legal implication concerning the events in chapter 5. The only thing somewhat related to a legal issue is, perhaps, the right to privacy. When Jem, Dill, and Scout try to get a... -
Answered a Question in Trifles
The rising action is what leads to the climax. In this play, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters use inductive reasoning to discover that Mrs. Wright has killed her husband. It is important to note that this... -
Answered a Question in The World Is Too Much with Us
Consider the title of the poem. Wordsworth is saying that humans perceive the world as human-centered. In other words, people focus too much on themselves and on human culture itself. We focus more... -
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
It is a good idea to look at newspaper articles to get an idea. Since the story was written in 1953, Google "1950s newspaper articles" and you'll get plenty of examples. If you go that route, you... -
Answered a Question in The Leap
Note that these events are not in chronological order. The story is told by the narrator, looking back upon her life. The first notable event is that the narrator's mother, Anna, has lost her... -
Answered a Question in In Another Country
The medals are symbols of bravery, but in the end, they offer little solace to soldiers who feel they've lost so much more. Note that the young soldier who had his face blown off was not given a... -
Answered a Question in The Things They Carried
O'Brien captures the conflicts of being a soldier. A soldier faces the dramatic heights of fear, violence, sadness, anxiety, regret, and so on. But the solider must deal with all of these things... -
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
One angle to consider is if Montresor is telling this tale in an attempt to ask for forgiveness. He is telling his tale to "you" fifty years after the events take place. Given the advanced age this... -
Answered a Question in The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Granny Weatherall was jilted at the alter by George. She waited for George and he never showed up. On her deathbed, she waits for Hapsy and a sign from God or Jesus that this is her time and she... -
Answered a Question in Roland Barthes
Barthes also challenges us to consider reading as a creative act. The answer already given shows how Barthes considers that the author is a producer but also a product. In other words, the author... -
Answered a Question in Literary Criticism
"Criticism" is the branch of literary study that defines, analyzes, interprets, and judges a work of literature according to various aesthetic systems. The two main traditional Greek systems of... -
Answered a Question in Mikhail Bakhtin
It is true that Bakhtin is known mostly as a Formalist and Marxist literary theorist. One of Bakhtin's most famous works is Discourse in the Novel. In this work, he discusses heteroglossia, the... -
Answered a Question in Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Gothic literature initially flourished from the middle of the 18th century to the middle of 19th century. It arose due to a number of influences. There was a growing interest in medieval culture... -
Answered a Question in Rules of the Game
Personification is the use of figurative language in which something nonhuman is described using human traits or characteristics. This is similar to anthropomorphism. The main difference is that,... -
Answered a Question in The Pearl
The morning haze is a blurring effect caused by differences in air temperature, notably the heat from the sun and the air near the water. The symbolic significance of the "hazy mirage" has to do... -
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
It is important to note that Bradbury wrote this novel in the late 1940s and published it in 1950. World War II occurred from 1939 to 1945. Censorship was a huge factor in the Nazi program.... -
Answered a Question in The Basement Room
Mrs. Baines seems like the disciplinarian of the two. She is always busy and Mr. Baines claims (according to Philip) that she prefers to be busy. Baines seems more easygoing and is, therefore, more... -
Answered a Question in Everyday Use
Clearly, one could argue that Dee/Wangero is trying to reclaim her African heritage. Whereas Mrs. Johnson (narrator) and Maggie live a rural American lifestyle, Dee is attempting to be more... -
Answered a Question in A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Most people, when happening upon a snake in the grass, are startled. But note that in the first stanza, the speaker calls the snake a "fellow"; this is an innocuous term for a boy or a man. The... -
Answered a Question in This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
Thomas Builds-the-Fire is Victor's guide and catalyst in this story. Victor has lost touch with his father and his Native American roots and heritage. Thomas is the one who helps him reconnect and,... -
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
As stated in the previous answer, if she can get them to drink, they are more likely to stay and then more likely to eat the murder weapon. But let's suppose a supplemental reason in addition to... -
Answered a Question in Betrayal
In scene one, Jerry is trying to subtly ask Emma if she is having an affair with Casey. Then, Emma and Jerry discuss their previous affair. Then, Emma reveals that her husband, Robert, had also... -
Answered a Question in Hamlet
Hamlet is berating Gertrude for marrying her husband's murderer. When she can bear it no longer, the ghost (Hamlet's father/Gertrude's previous husband) appears and speaks to Hamlet, asking him to...
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