Jamie Wheeler
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I hold a M.A. and B.A. in literature, currently writing my Ph.D in American Literature, specifically John Steinbeck's female characters. I have been teaching both Freshman and Sophomore literature at the college level for about ten years.
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Answered a Question in Neoclassicism
Your question is unclear (what was your original term, since you have asked for "other terms") and I'm also not sure what you mean by "write a note" but I'll give it a shot as I can provide you... -
Answered a Question in The Cask of Amontillado
He walls him up in the catacombs of Amontillado and leaves him there to die. He has lured his victim deep within the underground wine storage area and tricks him into exploring it further. Here is... -
Answered a Question in The Bronze Bow
First, Thacia has insisted on being a part of the pact the two boys make to win the fight of the Jews to oust their Roman oppressors. Secondly, it is Thacia who takes Daniel in when he is injured,... -
Answered a Question in The Bronze Bow
Daniel feels completely miserable. Forbidden to ever return to Hezron’s home, Daniel forlornly heads back up the mountain. He also does not look forward to telling Rosh that he has failed to enlist... -
Answered a Question in The Lovely Bones
I agree that he does die, and one should not overlook the parallels to Harvey's cold and lonely death to that of his victim's, Susie Salmon. Harvey had lured Susie to an underground "hole" in a... -
Answered a Question in The Bronze Bow
Daniel is beginning to change. His world has already expanded by making his first real friends, Joel and Malthace ("Thacia"), who, unlike Rosh, truly care about his well being. They feed him, care... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
This occurs in Chapter VII, "The Governor's Hall." Pearl, Hester's daughter, sees the letter A greatly exaggerated and Hester notices Pearl's face reflected within the letter. She looks like a... -
Answered a Question in The Scarlet Letter
Because roses are beautiful but have thorns. So too does Pearl. She is physically beautiful but has a mean streak in her. She is called a "red rose" by Dimmesdale, who thinks it complimentary, for... -
Answered a Question in Antony and Cleopatra
The "fleshpots of Egypt" were so called because of their loose sexuality and equally loose morals. (In the Bible, the "fleshpots of Egypt" are what the Israelites were trying to flee from due to... -
Answered a Question in Things Fall Apart
Reverend Brown leads the mission with a cool head, calmness, and patience. He does not try to foist his religion on the tribe but leads by living example. When Brown becomes ill and must leave, he... -
Answered a Question in The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The overall philosophy of Ovid's "The Metamphoses" is that everything on heaven and earth experiences change. Think of a butterfly, or a tree, or a baby: all go from one state of being to another.... -
Answered a Question in The Lady with the Pet Dog
In my opinion, the mood of Chekov's story is one of boredom with life caused by excess of wealth, too much leisure, and lack of purpose in existence. The setting is a fashionable seaside resort in... -
Answered a Question in The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
Remember that the a "denouement" is the falling action of a narrative. Here, all the events previously have culminated in the bombing of the church. The protagonist, Kenny, is forced once again to... -
Answered a Question in Sonny's Blues
Jazz is symbolic of Sonny's need for freedom and to express feelings that he otherwise might have trouble voicing. Jazz is also symbolic of the relationship of the two brothers, the older of whom,... -
Answered a Question in The Most Dangerous Game
The most prevelant theme is that of violence and cruelty, both literally and symbolically. Literally, against the animals have died in Zaroff's violent hunts and in the way he is trying to murder... -
Answered a Question in The Bronze Bow
First, she acts rather snottily when Daniel seeks her help when he arrives at her home wounded. She is a relatively rich girl, the daughter of a distinguished Pharisean priest. She lives in a... -
Answered a Question in Animal Farm
Orwell's "Animal Farm" was written in reponse to the rise of communism and the aggression of Hitler and World War II. Communism may have looked good on paper, but as Orwell repeatedly shows, it... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
The Priest is at Oedipus' altar to pray. His furtive prayers puzzle Oedipus. He asks him: "Why here and kneels, what preys upon you so? / Some sudden fear? some strong desire?" (1.1.11-12). After... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Juliet has a strained relationship with her mother, who loves her but is rather distant. It is the Nurse who has brought Juliet up, having been her wet-nurse and then her Nanny and continues to be... -
Answered a Question in The Catbird Seat
I would say that it is when Martin arrives at Mrs. Barrows home and comes up with his new plan (rather than the murder he'd intended) to rid himself and his company of the annoying woman. (He's... -
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
"To make his creature, Victor Frankenstein "dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave" and frequented dissecting rooms and slaughterhouses. In Mary Shelley's day, as in our own, the healthy... -
Answered a Question in The Catcher in the Rye
Because he knew how awful his writing was and he wanted to apologize to Mr. Spencer before he read it. Holden has already experienced a world of "phonies" and he wants the teacher to know he is not... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Evil manifests itself in a number of ways, but the most disturbing (for me, anyway) is the propensity for evil that is a part of being human. This take on the theme of evil can be found in a number... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth, 1.4: "Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires." (Macbeth is ashamed of his greed and treachery.) Donalbain, 2.3: "Where we are, / There's daggers in men's... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
It is the Nurse who speaks these lines in 4.45.49-54. She is reacting to the news that Juliet (appears) to be dead. Here are the lines in question: O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day That ever,... -
Answered a Question in Indian Camp
Hemingway's "Indian Camp" revolves around the idea of American values imposed on Native American culture. In the story, Nick Adams, his doctor father, and uncle are called to an Indian encampment... -
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
Bmadnick's answer is correct, I'd just like to add a little to it. Steibeck is also playing with the idea of large versus small, and how one cannot be judged by appearances only. Who would guess... -
Answered a Question in Wuthering Heights
Class conflict is one of the major themes. Catherine is very wealthy and Heathcliff, an orphan, has nothing. Bronte asks the reader to consider whether property ownership and money should have any... -
Answered a Question in Into the Wild
Twenty-two year Chris McCandless disappeared in Alaska's Denali National Park. It is the home of one of the tallest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley, which towers above the earth at 20,320... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
The stranding of the boys on the island can be viewed as a horrific social experiment in which man's inhumanity to man can be seen to exist in everyone to some extent. The way the boys quickly go... -
Answered a Question in My Brother Sam Is Dead
Tim grows as a character from blind faith in his father and the Revolution into a teenager who is more in touch with his father's failings and the reality of the war. Here is an excerpt from here... -
Answered a Question in The Seafarer
The speaker of the poem is both drawn to the sea and repelled by it. As the poem begins, we sense the latter attitude as he describes his experience battling nature: In icy bands, bound with... -
Answered a Question in A Tale of Two Cities
I agree with the eNotes analysis here which identifies the main conflict and theme as the tension between order and disorder. As Dickens is exploring the ramificiations of the French Revolution,... -
Answered a Question in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
One of the repeated rhetorical strategies Douglass employs is the Enlightenment "buzz words" of light and dark. Enlightment thinkers valued reason above all else. Reason brought "light" to dark... -
Answered a Question in Hills Like White Elephants
I would like to add a little bit of Hemingway's personal background to help understand the unsettled, and unsettling, conclusion, of "Hills." Hemingway had to deal with the problem of abortion when... -
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Poor Juliet! She is so misguided, so young, and so vulnerable that the older one gets, the more empathy audiences and readers have for her plight. First, consider Juliet's age. Most scholars peg... -
Answered a Question in Macbeth
Macbeth, like almost all of Shakespeare's works, is timeless. The reason that the plays endure is because they deal with human foibles and triumphs that are common to all. In the case of Macbeth,... -
Answered a Question in Twelfth Night
Though Shakespeare's play is infused with delightful humor, its main theme arguably is the nature of love: who has it, who wants it, who deserves it. For example, Malvolio loves Olivia, but he will... -
Answered a Question in Jane Eyre
Helen is presented as a gentle girl who nonetheless cannot escape the bullying tactics of the cruel school marm, Miss Scatcherd. Jane describes her humiliation on one particular day: "It was... -
Answered a Question in The Threepenny Opera
MacHeath's Achilles' heel is his sexual appetite. Juggling his various conquests sometimes is not as successful as he would wish. When his father-in-law Peachum gets sick of his philadering ways... -
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck justifies stealing vs. borrowing as he mulls over Tom's words in Chapter 35. It is all stealing, Huck realizes, but sometimes the theft is justified when need, not greed, is the motivation.... -
Answered a Question in The Lovely Bones
The following is excerpted from the eNotes "Themes" pages on Sebold's novel. In addition to the themes you mention here, there is also analysis of other major themes which include "life and death"... -
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
Here is a selection: Ch. 4: He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. Ch. 5: "(F)ear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this... -
Answered a Question in The Guest
In Camus' short story, French colonial culture is in conflict with Algerian-Arab culture. Stark European jingoism is juxtaposed with the people the schoolteacher has come to know as more than... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
In this description, Calpurnia's character and history are revealed. The fact that her hand is wide and hard shows that she is no stranger to manual labor. When she spanks Scout, we see that she is... -
Answered a Question in Oedipus Rex
Though I agree with the previous answer in part, my take is somewhat different. I believe Oedipus' main flaw is hubris. Hubris is excessive pride that goes before a fall. It is a family trait, it... -
Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
"A Rose for Emily" is told in third person limited perspective. Here is the definition of that point-of-view and its advantages: Third person limited could be perceived as being told from the... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
Mayella seems to feel the isolation and loneliness of her racist family more than her father or siblings. She also is the only one who seems to care at all about the squalor that they live in. It... -
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
We learn that Tom does not have use of his left arm due to a farming accident many years ago. Thus, he could not have done the things Mayella Ewell accuses him of; he was not physically able to do... -
Answered a Question in Hard Times
Because Thomas Gradgrind is a man who lives by rules and the measure of how others adhere to those rules. All the items in this description can be understood both literally and metaphorically. The...
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