.... wrongdoings to God that allow them to have the promise of returning to Paradise (Heaven); something that Satan was not able to do. In the fourth book in , we see Satan wrestling with himself over what has happened (his fall), and what it is he is about to do (his completely setting himself against God). He is able to recognize that God’s forgiving nature extends even to himself, "I could repent and could obtain By Act of Grace, my former state", and is if only for a moment, unsure as to "which way I shall fly"? However, Satan knowingly chooses to cling to his foolish pride, and is unwilling to ask and receive the forgiveness of God, .....

.... , Ba creates two central and strong female characters who contradict the standard role of women in African communities dominated by Islamic doctrines, like that of Senegal. The author recognized the significant gender-biases that existed it the culture and expressed them through the development of her characters. But rather than taking the standard view and assimilating her characters within the culture from which they were raised, Ba attempts to challenge the notion of female subjugation and dis-empowerment by directing and solidifying the characteristics of the her two main character. In Senegal, the traditional view of woman, which values her entirel .....

.... Beard released his interpretation of the Constitution, in which he announced that the Constitution was essentially an economic document and that it was written and ratified by economic groups for economic reasons. Beard's idea was not taken lightly, and for a period of time in the early 1900's, his economic theory was believed to be the one and only correct theory. It was believed that nonbelievers were either professional patriots or just naive academicians. Beard explained that the framers of the Constitution had been members of the upper class of society, and that economics were a large part of the Constitution because they would have a direct, positive ef .....

.... with her husbands' theory, thus leaving her no choice but to subject herself to this torment of being totally alone in this room with . She stares at this wallpaper for hours on end and thinks she sees a woman behind the paper. "I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman." She becomes obsessed with discovering what is behind that pattern and what it is doing. "I don't want to leave now until I have found it out". The narrator with absolutely nothing else to do is reduced to staring endlessly at a pattern in wallpaper, thus creating some image that she feels is necessary .....

.... eventually the people living in the development would leave. I believe that the economic situation of the country has a great effect on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression was a major economical event, and it greatly effected more then just people like the Joads, but programs like the public works administration, which employed people for government construction projects. Another program, the Works Progress Administration, later called the Works Projects Administration was created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 193 .....

.... From the knight’s rape of a maiden in the Wife of Bath’s fantastic tale to Absolon’s jamming of a hot iron into Nicholas’ rectum in the Miller’s tale, examples of such invasion and inversion represent the foundations of most of the tales’ plots. Chaucer exposes his fundamental device in the opening stanza of the General Prologue. The first five lines of the poetry address only major natural forces—"Aprill with his shoures soote," (1) and, "Zephirus…with his sweete breeth" (5). Life forms, first grain and then birds, grow organically from these bricks of the earth. The poet creates a chain of existence molded into a comfortable hirearchy t .....

.... too mighty for mortal souls, a lesson that Frankenstein is forced to learn by the end of his tales. Victor both impresses, yet horrifies the reader. One marvels at his genius, but trembles at his destructiveness of the old and familiar. In the process of creating their new lives, Faust and Victor Frankenstein become distant and unconcerned with all reality and humanity around them. Faust's goal to become the Überminche is an understandable desire; however, the means by which he strives for that end is irresponsible and unjust. It is through this greed that Faust, with the help of Mephisto, exploits others in the pursuit of Faust's earthly desires. As Faust st .....

.... sacrifice by Agamemnon, ironically, in hopes of ending a cycle of revenge already out of hand within the families of Agamemnon and his enemy Aegisthus. Although justice can skeptically be looked at as a noble cause, in that traditionally justice represents the protection of all that is good, it seems evident that evil still plays a part in motivating one to kill. Hence the symbolic darkness of night present in the opening scene of the play, foreshadowing the death of Agamemnon, and Clytaemestra’s conversion to the dark-side of hatred and revenge. Another commonly used significance of darkness is that of concealment. When a soldier wishes to hide his action .....