... the community, he was afraid the "she [would] cast [him] off too." As she did leave him, he lost so much faith in the word of love because Sarah did not believe the truth of the stolen money. A person he had loved so much had betrayed him, and it hurt him so much. He left town to go to Raveloe because of his broken heart. He lived in the town of Raveloe as a hermit. People knew very little of him and for a good reason. Silas was isolated because he did not want to get his heart broken again. His love from Sarah grew to love of his work and eventually to money. He was so dedicated that "he seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection ...

... of blood and disease. Duncan makes the fatal decision of paying an overnight visit to MacBeth’s castle. With lady MacBeth’s coaxing MacBeth agrees to drug the grooms and murder Duncan. However, Lady MacBeth must go back after the initial killing and frame the sleeping grooms for the murder. Both MacBeth and his wife’s hands now carry the blood of the late king, Duncan. “A little water clears us of this deed,” is Lady MacBeth’s response to this situation. She thinks washing the blood off their hands will also wash the guilt off their minds. Nothing so complicated is ever that easy. Lady MacBeth soon learns that guilt is ...

... signs of a loving relationship; indeed, Charles and Madame Dubuc treat marriage as a chore or formality, and not a pleasure. When Charles takes his second wife, Emma, love is, once again, not involved. He muses that her father, “old Rouault was rich, and she!-so beautiful!”(p.15) He knows he will be marrying into a wealthy family, and he will be obtaining a “trophy wife.” As for Emma’s part in the marriage, she has no say whatsoever. She is given to Charles by her father in exchange for a dowry. So, before she is even married, she is already treated like chattel by the men in her life. Their treatment of her by men len ...

... know what is best for you “(161). Clym, who possesses the same strong will as Mrs. Yeobright, refuses to grant her control. Charles Child Walcutt believes Clym and Mrs. Yeobright are prone for destruction: “What the facts show is a deep vein of self-destructiveness that runs right through the Yeobright family”(Hardy 492). He goes on to say that aspects of the Yeobrights reflect the “condition of man”(Hardy 496). Mrs. Yeobright is quick to pass judgment on others, including Clym. “And yet you might have been a wealthy man if you had only persevered. Manager to that large diamond establishment –what better can a man wish for? What a post of trust and respect a ...

... more wealthy corporations since his release from prison. The trucker tries to socialize with him at this point but Tom is too absorbed into his own interest in keeping to himself. Arriving at his house with Jim Casey, Tom visits the abandoned house with one corner having been knocked in by a tractor. His family had been compelled to leave their land through repossession by the large corporations another example in Tom's life how the larger are trying to control the less fortunate. This land had been his family's source of pride and livelihood throughout his life with them and it's loss was the first sizable impact on Tom's conscience that would lead him to an awak ...

... the enemy's progress. These including blowing up a bridge on a major convoy route, attacking an important bay used for supplies and in Darkness, Be My Friend, the teenagers set out from New Zealand to assist a small group of elite New Zealand soldiers attack the new airbase that has been built in their town. In this book, the New Zealand soldiers disappear without a trace and the teenagers have to attack the airbase themsleves_ I think that this book is as much about adventure and survival as it is about emotions, friendships and relationships. The book is written as the diary of the unofficial leader of the group and she speaks a lot about her thoughts, her ...

... a little crazed because he had to put up with his brother. Boo’s brother practically took ownership over Boo, and controlled his life. Boo did help the children in “little” times. Like when Gem got his pants stuck on the fence. It was Boo that sewed them up, and when the neighbors’ house was on fire. It was cold out, and Boo came to scout with a blanket. He wanted to be there for people. Another argument about Boo is that he killed someone. I have many sides to this topic. It’s possible that Boo killed Mr. Ewell out of hate. Killed him because he was a petty drunk, and none the less, just a horrible man. Then again, Boo could have killed Mr. Ewell for the ...

... religion and feels that he can use it to help him gain an identity. Hardy feels that people should shy away from their old ways of thinking and begin to form new opinions of their own. He feels that people should not just blindly follow religion without deciding for themselves that this is what they want. People should not be as Jude who becomes obsessed with religion simply because his mentor Phillotson felt this way. One of the major reasons that causes Hardy to have these views is that he feels religion leads to hypocrisy. He feels that man has many desires that go against the laws of religion, and these desires lead man to feel very hypocritical. These feeli ...

... universal and archetypal situation. There are six parts that make up the cycle: the call to adventure, the threshold crossing, the road of trials, the supreme test, a flight or a flee, and finally a return. There are more parts they do not necessarily fall into the same order, examples of these are symbolic death and motifs. The Cosmogonic Cycle is an interesting way to interpret literature because is Universal or correlates with any time period and any situation. The Call to Adventure is the first of the Cosmogonic Cycle. It is the actual "call to adventure" that one receives to begin the cycle. There are many ways that this is found in literature includi ...

... off half his face. From then on Torak is known as Torak One-Eye. Eventually Belgarath and the peoples known as Chereks steal the orb back from Torak while he is sleeping. From that point one Cherek child per generation is born with a special mark on his hand. Those with the mark prove to be gifted in the use of the orb. For thousands of years Torak is kept at bay because the orb is protected by the Chereks, but somehow, a man known as the Apostate takes the orb hoping to deliver it to Torak. Belgarath, his daughter Polgara, a Cherek named Barak, a Drasnian named Silk, a Sendar named Durnik and a young boy named Garion venture out into the world to try a ...