.... black magic as his primary interest. It will, in his opinion, offer him more knowledge, opportunity, and wealth in his ambitious pursuit for wisdom. Despite the harsh warnings of the good angel, he follows the temptations of the devil, as he desires to be the commander of the elements. He prepares to make the commitment to surrender his soul to Lucifer, on the condition that he is spared for twenty-four years and permitted to indulge himself as he wishes. He is also given Mephistophilis to attend to his every need. Despite the attractiveness of the offer at hand, Faust is pledging his soul to eternal damnation. Because he will have access to infinite kno .....

.... manners. In the Miller's Tale Chaucer juxtaposes courtly love with animalistic lust, and in various other instances he mentions curteisye, or at least alludes to it, with characteristic Chaucerian irony. These numerous references provide the reader with a remarkably rich image of the culture and class structure of late fourteenth century England. "Wel coude she carye a morsel, and wel keepe / That no drope ne fille upon hir brest. / In curteisye was set ful muchel hir lest."(General Prologue, 130-2) Here, in the description of the Prioress, Chaucer mocks her etiquette by so specifically describing it, and in doing so he also mocks her conception of sophis .....

.... each illuminate one of the basic facets of the human personality: the individual, the compromiser and the conformer. From the very beginning the reader senses that Sarah is very different for her times. She is quickly seen as the individualist who has taken a turn off the beaten path and decided it's much more to her liking. As well, Fowles appears to have written Sarah with a modern woman in mind; she is truly unsuited for 19th century living and she is shunned by her community because, as she says: "I have a freedom they cannot understand." (Fowles 142). She is an admitted non-conformist as is evident when she states: "I am a doubly dishonored woman. .....

.... are Tom Buchanan in the beginning and then Jay Gatsby. She is married to Tom in the beginning of the book but half way through the novel she meets Gatsby and remembers him from her past and then falls in love with him. Daisy lack of love for any one man as she says on page 133 "I did love him once- but I love you to" ,destroys everyone’s lives in the novel. In the beginning she fails to love Tom Buchanan which in a way drives him away to Myrtle which destroys Mr. Wilson’s life. Then she gets Gatsby killed by killing Myrtle in the car accident leading Mr. Wilson to believe that Gatsby was driving the car which hit Myrtle and killed her. So Mr. Wilson kills G .....

.... of Diamonds" paints the perfect picture of how a bad attitude in everything makes everything worse. The story starts off in a hospital where a lady named Christine is in bed, sick. They make it clear to the reader that Christine was not in the hospital just for this one occasion, but has spent a lot of time there in the past as well. Christine was not one of those people who were sick all the time, but she was someone who had gone out a lot of the time with her friends and drank. The drinking was the reason that she was in the hospital. It never once showed Christine as being happy, she was always in a bad mood, and never really seemed to be plea .....

.... pieces to be passed down and still be in existence today. When many of the pieces were finally written down the took on a poetic style. Through the examination of these poems, both universal and cultural themes become present. In “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer,” both being poems from the Anglo-Saxon time period, the anonymous authors portray the universal theme of the harshness of life through imagery patterns of the sea and winter, and in the conclusion of both poems it becomes evident to the subjects of the poems that the only way they will find contentment in life is if they accept the fact that the things that happen to them are .....

.... dairy farm selling her milk. She lives at the farm, since that is the only thing she has, with her two sons Wesley, the younger child, and Scofield. Though Mrs. May was struggling, her two boys never helped or even supported her. They just lived with her and complained about it. Both of the boys have a career of their own. Wesley is described as a thin, bald, intellectual who did not like anything. He drove twenty miles everyday to a second-rate university where he taught, which he did not like. Now his brother Scofield is the total opposite of Wesley, it is said that the only thing they did have in common was neither cared about what happened to the farm. Sco .....

.... had left a young girl, a girl the same age as his daughter, on the side of the road because he felt people would think differently about his actions towards her. Even after he realized what he did was wrong and unacceptable he continued on. This man was thinking of only himself because he felt that he might be questioned and accused of things. His actions may not have been violent but they were still evil. Another story where evil and human nature bind together is in "A Rose for Emily". This story and also a town's ability to pry and gossip. Emily was so in love with her lover that even after he died she slept with his corpse. Her actions did not allow the yo .....