... gods, tells Helen that Alexandros and Melelaos are going to fight for her, she reacts with sorrow and regret. "These words pierced Helen to the heart. She longed for her husband of the old days, for home and family. At once she threw a white veil over her, and left the house quickly with tears running down her cheeks." Once she gets to the battlements, Priam calls her over to sit by him. He feels sorry for her and tries to take her mind off of her situation by asking her to point out members of the Achaian army. She responds by first telling him that she wished she had never come to Troy. "Helen answered: 'You do me honour, my dear goodfather! How I wish I h ...

... little games. The diction of the story emphasizes wickedness. King uses metaphors, and almost every one of them suggests a likeness with something evil, taking for example the giggling, like the laughter of demons...or they were ringed in a tight little circle, like mourners around an open grave. Irony also exists in this story. Sidley seems to be the ideal teacher, who is efficient at her job and knows how to keep her students quite in class, when actually she is the one who has a disturbing behavior and ends up surprising her colleague in school when she is found about to kill one more child. King also used an interesting style to introduce a new character to th ...

... continuing copying was worthless, possibly from spending many years in a dead letter office. Melville probably felt this way, but needed to continue writing to support his family. When Bartleby is in prison, he wastes away without abruptly dying, a degeneration until the point no one notices his absence. Melville had reached the prime of his popularity early in his career, so when he published Moby Dick, his career was already in decline. His disappointment was only to increase as his career diminished until his death which was hardly noticed in the literary community. The narrator also resembles Melville, but in a different way. Melville uses the narrator to ...

... of San Francisco's politically active gay community, had been shot and killed at death in the San Francisco City Hall. The Police then sniffed-out and charged Dan White with the murders of the 3 people. In 2 years the trial ended with the verdict of guilty on the account of manslaughter. He was later sentenced to 7 years and 8 months in a Prison, with a possibility of parole after 5. After the verdict there were Riots breaking out in the streets because of the verdict. Before hand he was elected a Supervisor and resigned because he didn't like the way that Politics worked. The point before, that I may not have mentioned, is that the defense argued that h ...

... was able to get away with murder and be elected into public office soon after is a strong example of this. There were not many pragmatists in the novel. By definition, a pragmatist is one who believes that the meaning of conceptions is to be sought in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to guide action, and that truth is preminently to be tested by the practical consequences of belief. Bayard Sartoris was a pragmatist. He 'let his conscience be his guide'. Telling his father about Drusilla's attempt to seduce him and refusing to avenge his father's death are two good examples of this. In the beginning of the novel, Bayard is shown to be si ...

... a rich man, but his dreams have been shot down by his family. No one believes in him. Only he does. This is wny he is the way he is. He is selfish. Always me me me. He lost all the money his family and his mother had intrusted him with. He was always thinking about himself and he lost all his money by giving it to a man who he trusted. But the man ran off with the money. But Walter finally changes. Luckily his mother and saved enough money for a house. But they were going to live in a white neighborhood and the whites did not like that. They offered him a great deal of money not to move there. But Walter, who finally thought about his family's happin ...

... (Pg. 43) From that day on Hester is isolated from the rest of the town and looked as and treated as a sinner. The letter “A” was a symbol for everyone to see that she has committed a sin. When the townspeople see that she is wearing the letter “A” they know that she is a sinner and has committed adultery she is looked down upon by the people of the town. In the middle of the book as several years have passed the meaning of the letter “A” starts to change. Instead of it meaning adultery it means something else which is a good meaning. The reason for this is because she starts to create beautiful needlework and she helps the ...

... He slowly pushed the lever forward to go ahed in time, as he got used to the controls he went faster. Through a window he saw he saw everything happening faster and a dial told him the date. The mannequin in the window also showed him the changing times. As he traveled through time he slowed down to take a closer look at the changes that were taking place, but he never left his lab. Finally hestoped when he saw a White Sphinx with wings that made it look like it was hovering. He stopped to fasted and the time machine fell on its' side and he had to pull it up by a bar onit's side. He was walking through a forest with trees filled with fruit, until he came ...

... nature. The last opposing power she comes across is her undying love for the charming Robert Lebrun. It is the unwritten rule that a woman should marry, have children, and be happy and content with that as their life. Society portrays this to be a woman's rightful job and duty. A woman should act and look "proper" at all times. This is what Edna is fighting against in this novel. She feels that, though many women agree with this "known" rule, it isn't fair. For six years Edna conforms to these ideas by being a "proper" wife and mother, holding Tuesday socials and going to operas, following the same enduring schedule. It is only after her summer spe ...

... not expect love to come about; thus, she decides that it is probably even better if you don't know a thing at all about the person you are marrying. While Charlotte is speaking to Elizabeth about her sister, she expressed her opinion as to Jane Bennet's relationship towards a gentleman. She says it is probably better not to study a person because you would probably know as much after twelve months as if she married him the next day. Charlotte even goes as far as to say that "it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life" (p.21). Charlotte considered Mr. Collins "neither sensible nor agreeable" but sinc ...