.... that in the introduction to Morte d' Arthur, Mordred is referred to as King Arthurs nephew. Later in the text, when Arthur and Mordred are fighting (p. 96, para.1) it says, ". . . so he smote his father King Arthur with his sword holden in both hands, upon the side of the head . . ." In Camelot, Mordred is Arthur's illegitimate son, although he keeps this a secret. This possibly explains the contradiction of Mordred's position in the two pieces. Another difference in the two works was that in Camelot, Mordred tells Arthur, "I despise the sword, loathe the spear, and I detest horses." Yet in Morte d' Arthur Mordred and Arthur .....

.... witchery and swirling accusations, John Proctor was easily indicted of being a messenger for the devil by the testimony of his disillusioned servant Mary Warren, who in the past committed perjury. The court who heard the testimony easily accepts it because she is a church going person, while John Proctor slightly deviates from the norm. This transfer of blame is also noticeable when the truth is first discovered about what the girls were doing in the woods. The girls were not blamed. The blame was put on Tituba, the “black” slave who was said to have “charmed” the girls. Abigail swears that “she [Tituba] made me do it” .....

.... he was doing the right thing. However, he did not receive any joy from this realization. He was relatively miserable his whole life. He turned to Gambling to punish himself. This is a man who, when he had a chance to be with the woman he had loved for years, ruined it by going to the casino and gambling. He thought that it would prove to her that he loved her, because he would have a lot of money to spend on her. Instead, she realized that his one true love was not her but gambling. Whenever I read this story, I think of how much this character that Fyodor Dostoevsky created is similar, in a lot of ways, to myself. I fi .....

.... their race. They were prohibited from many jobs and professions even El Parker, a very well educated Native American, who had to obtain aid of his friend U.S. Grant before he could join the union army and fight in the Civil War. Again the striking similarity to the plight of the European Jews during World War Two, when they were marked with a star and their rights were revoked. These comparisons are quite disturbing and the similarities continue even to the treatment of the gentle California tribes the Spanish first virtually enslaved the native people then corrupted them. The European Jews were also were also a peaceful industrio .....

.... himself. Shakespeare writes this story in a manner that the reader understands the cause of Lear's problems, but Lear himself does not. This draws the reader into the story because the reader knows that Lear's actions will lead to his downfall. As the story progresses the reader begins feeling very sympathetic towards Lear, because they understand the failure of Lear to expose the secret. Without the secret, however, a lot of heartbreak would have been saved, but there would have been no story. For it is the secret and the subsequent heartbreak that draws the reader into the story. The overall effect of this secret is cruci .....

.... doing this at all. It would simply be a matter of giving her a pen and paper. By placing your stream of thoughts on paper, you can easily explore how the human mind processes information. The flow from one thought to another is like a stream (thus the name). More often than not, visual stimuli are what form the current that directs the stream. This is especially true in younger children. Often times a child will run, fall, bump his head, look around, start crying, see a toy, stop crying, run to get the toy, see a dog, chase the dog, etc. This is because the human mind at this point has no interference from past experiences or any .....

.... the family name is important. The insensitivity and greed that is directed toward Tess, comes from her mother, Joan. Joan only wants Tess to marry a man with an aristocratic name so that he family can become wealthy. Tess's feelings are not considered. Therefore her life is also planned out for her, like those of the novel A Tale of Two Cities. Within the lives in Dickens' novel, there is a sense of irony from one of the characters. Dickens writes, "the prosperous patronage with which he said it, made him look twice as big as he was, and four times as offensive" (Dickens 144). For the character, Stryver, this is ironic because .....

.... where he whatever lifestyle he so desired. Charley is the thirteen year old son of Allie. He is naive to the practices of modern society because of his fathers continual and insisted sheltering from the evils of everyday life. He is very impressionable and sees his father as the most brilliant man on earth. Jerry is the ten year old younger brother of Charley. He enjoys bettering his brother, and cutting him down. He puts on a guise of valiant bravery, yet inside he is merely a frightened child. Although he immensely respects his brother he is unable to relate these emotions for he views them as feminine. The story .....

.... The Hobbit, we see heroic deeds being accomplished by the main character Bilbo. This occurs when the companions do battle with giant venomous spiders in Mirkwood forest. Bilbo finds depth and strength in his nature that he was surprised was there and smote these villainous creatures all on his own, saving his friends and adding to his stature among those in the group. “Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the Dwarves or anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins.” (144) There are numerous other opportunities to experience heroism in The Hobbit, one .....

.... is no reason to suffer and that satisfies him."(508) This quote illustrates that the men are in control. If they strongly believe nothing is wrong, then nothing must be wrong. It is a feeling of self-satisfaction the men feel when they are superior to the woman. The main character knows John loves her, but it is the oppression she feels that bothers her so. Her husband expresses his love for her but at the same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts. "…He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction…"(507) The last few words of this quote show how John did no .....