.... men in one fist. "He clutched at my companions and caught two in his hand like squirming puppies". Furthermore, Polyphemus blocks his cave using an enormous boulder. In addition to that, Odysseus and his men stab the Cyclops in the eye and flee out to sea where Odysseus taunts him. Out of rage, the Cyclops tears off a hilltop and hurled it at Odysseus's ship. "The blind thing in his fury broke a hilltop in his hands and heaved it at us". The Cyclops is cool because he can beat up despicable people such as thieves and outlaws. The Cyclops is a gullible character. First off, the Cyclops believes Odysseus when he tells him that his name is Nohb .....

.... in the catacombs. Montresor’s actions display much of the same characteristics of Satan himself. Satan works his way around us and lures us to death descised as pleasure, the same way Montresor did this to Fortunato. Satan and Montresor are sneaky, insidious, and nefarious in their act towards Montressor and the world. This first characteristic that Montresor reveals in himself as Satan would is the characteristic of being sneaky. Montresor displays this in the cunning way he lures Fortunato into the catacombs to “taste” the Amontillado. This intrigued Fortunato’s senses because Montresor knew that Fortunato “prided himself in the connoisseurship of .....

.... one can easily look around, like Auden, and exclaim, "No hatred is totally without justification, no love is totally innocent." In The Merchant of Venice, there is an imperfect world, as well as a perfect world. The flawed world is the materialistic and bustling city of Venice. The impeccable world is the fairy-tale city of Belmont. Despite Belmont's perfection, a bit of justified hatred from Venice would ruin its innocence. (Paradise lost.) Alas, as Auden suggests, there are no utopias. In Venice, time is of the essence. If one were to momentarily forget the real world, one would be trampled down by its massive stampede of events, bonds, et cetera constantly .....

.... us that Nick finds his consolation in his father. Hemingway's depiction of Mrs. Henry Adams, Nick's mother, portrays her to be an overbearing and obnoxious woman. Benson describes Mrs. Adams as: "Nicks mother is a woman who smothers sweetly with that peculiar self righteous intensity which is born of Victorian moral certainty" (6). Mrs. Adams constantly questions the actions of Dr. Adams and Nick. According to Jackson Benson, after the row with Dick Boulton in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," Mrs. Adams only attempts to second guess Dr. Adams. Instead of backing her husband up or sympathizing with him, Mrs. Adams scold .....

.... is inbittered by this, and is never the same. Anse is begrudging of everything. Even the cost of a doctor for his dying wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. "I never sent for you" Anse says "I take you to witness I never sent for you" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor's fee. Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson. Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse pla .....

.... different than most of the other people. It was Atticus Finch that stood out, and he was also the lawyer defending Tom Robinson. Atticus seemed to have more respect for the black community in his town, which most people lacked. He was probably the only person that would actually take defending a black man seriously in Maycomb, which shows the lack of morale in the town. After looking at the judge and the jury, I realized that Tom never had a chance in the first place. The odds were still against him even though the plaintiff was the lowest form of human imaginable, who would have lost no matter what the case was if she was up against another white person. .....

.... based in its realistic exposure of thoughts once considered improper for a lady of the 19th century. Emotions any respectable girl would repress. Women at this time were not to feel passion, nor were they considered sexual beings. To conceive the thought of women expressing rage and blatantly retaliating against authority was a defiance against the traditional role of women. Jane Eyre sent controversy through the literary community. For not only was it written by a woman but marked the first use of realistic characters. Jane's complexity lied in her being neither holy good nor evil. She was poor and plain in a time when society considered "an ugly wo .....

.... by some other soul than her husband Roger Chillingworth. Since she has worn this letter, she now has a label on her that she is sinful. She is brought out in public to show everyone what is embroidered on her chest. The narrator shares, “When the young women— the mother of this child-stood fully revealed before the crowd...On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourshes of gold thread..."(50-1). Many people there to see her when she reveals the “A” on her chest. Most of the town people are astonished and startled on her beauty still shone. Even though the big red letter on her chest stood for ad .....