... as a “modern-day Circe” or “bitch-goddess.” Brett is a “. . . drunkard, a nymphomaniac, or a Circe who turns men into swine. . .” (58). She has this transforming effect on several men throughout the course of the novel. Because of her extreme physical beauty, men such as Robert Cohn and Mike Campbell place Brett on a pedestal where she can do no wrong. Robert offers himself to Brett, then follows her around as if on a leash, “sniveling and squealing as if he were swine” (58). While Brett saunters around on her sexual escapades, she does not take into account the f ...

... the farm he meets Casy. Casy is the preacher who baptized him. Tom convinces Casy to walk with him and they head towards town. As they approach the area they realize that there is no one there. All of the houses are empty and the place looks deserted. They meet Muley, who tells them that the developers came through and kicked everyone off the land. He said that he stayed even though his family left because he can't imagine living anywhere else. The three men spend the night together. The next morning they start walking to Tom's uncle's house where Muley has told him his family is. When they arrive at Uncle John's ...

... independent of consciousness. This implies that consciousness PERCEIVES reality, but does not CREATE reality. We are forced to live within the confines of reality. Hence, "wishing does not make it so." There are definite laws of causality which are in effect, and are inescapable. She attempts to derive a morality from this view of metaphysics. She believe that man (sic) is a certain type of being: a rational animal. Man is the only form of being which must actually think in order to survive. This, to her, implies that it is RIGHT for man to think. The good is that which is useful to and promotes life. The ...

... and focus to the reader’s imagination. The reader must pay close attention to Poe’s use of words throughout the short story in order to pick up on slight detail which can be easily over looked. For example, Poe uses the word “masque� in the title instead of “mask� to describe the hidden face of death. Masque, a french word roughly translated as “face-mask,� refers to a form of indoor courtly recreation popular during the Renaissance that was represented by song, spectacular display, and dance (Wiebe). Though it was derived from the french dialect, it first became popular in Italy in the ...

... to go to war. At the tree Gene was tempted by Finny to jump from the branch. Although Gene knew that he could be injured, he did what he thought would please Finny. That night Finny and Gene formed the Suicide Society. When they returned to the tree one night Finny was going to jump when Gene shook the tree. His feelings overwhelmed him and it was comparable to a spontaneous act of will. Finny fell and was seriously wounded. He was disabled from playing sports anymore. He had previously broken school records effortlessly. The boys taunted Gene because they had blamed him for this accident. When G ...

... and myself saw a ghost whom we believed was Hamlet's deceased father. This was the point of all of our lives were you either take one path or the other each leading you in a total different direction. Hamlet went to the guard tower with us the next night and reasoned to our favor that the ghost did in fact perpetuate the look of King Hamlet. The ghost made a follow me motion to Hamlet and we grabbed him. Please do not follow Sir Hamlet, I pleaded. The spirit was insistent and Hamlets gut instinct drove him to follow the floating omen. I know not the exact words that the ghost spoke that night but from what I unders ...

... saw his Irish homeland as a prison because of that circumstance. Joyce 's creativity was discouraged in a few different ways, we will examine the two major culprits, the church and religious symbolism, as well as the social restrictions he had to contend with. First let us discuss the religious symbolism implied throughout the story. In the opening paragraphs Joyce talks about the Priest whom had died where the narrator himself now lives. The home where the narrator had found a smut book, as well as the Priest's will and paperwork of charitable contributions, since when does a Priest make enough money to have a ...

... would supply all their needs. ''...so the sons of the Woman hunted well, and they were fed and clothed and had good skins to live in, all from the caribou'' (Mowat 84). In the same way, nature has provided humanity entirely with all its needs in a way where it can coexist harmonically with the living things around it. People, in a somewhat self-centric way, have viciously transformed the natural world for their own good in order to supply themselves with superficial things. Nevertheless, though hominids basically make nature work for their profit, they too form a part of it. On the other hand, man has surpassed its ...

... he no longer wished to see Maggie. Therefore, Maggie had no other place to go. She was driven into prostitution and eventually suicide. The theme of this novel is that the environment in which one lives in will affect the way in which the person will become when they are older. This is proven by the characterization of Jimmie and Mary, the setting of this novel, and the characterization of Maggie Johnson. Jimmie Johnson went after whatever he wanted. The only thing that would stand in his way was a person of greater power. He often dreamed of wealth and fortune. “When he had a dollar in his pocke ...

... who had all but abandoned her, she seeks comfort in the arms of another man. She thought that Chillingsworth would never find out. When he did find out, he became very angry at losing his wife; she had betrayed him. He responded by trying to kill the other party, Arthur Dimmesdale. Revenge had turned a once normal man into a blood seeking, greedy, stingy, and decrepitly weak old man. Revenge was also the driving force behind the Abigail Walker’s, a character in The Chamber, accusations of Elizabeth Proctor being a witch. John Proctor and Abigail Williams once had an affair. John was lonely and in need o ...