Elliot allows the reader to understand what is going within the character's thoughts through the use of third person omniscient, which also helps the reader understand why the couple seem to have many matrimonial issues. ... This further worsens the problems between the couple when Lydgate thinks he has calmed Rosamond with his "self blame " but rises his peremptories again when Rosamond asks him to send the men away with the inventory, which makes Rosamond think "that if she had known how Lydgate would behave, she would have never married him. " These contrasting thoughts, given through ...

• Word Count: 668
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The statement is the narrator's, and that part of the sentence most indicting--the part between the dashes--is spoken suggestively, with a sly wink and a nudge of the elbow, in an attempt to disparage Homer's character. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator, tricks us into implicating ourselves as we gossip about his characters in a way that we usually reserve for neighbors--failing to truly understand them, revealing only our own phobias and fascinations. ... Perhaps we should approach "A Rose for Emily" by refusing to d...

• Word Count: 872
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The personal experiences of a real person are always better than those of a character in a novel because the situations are real, and therefore more reliable. Throughout the article, Tadmor explains that the eighteenth century English family was characteristically nuclear, and non-complex. In the early modern period, it was uncharacteristic of an English family to be large and complex. ... Complex living arrangements did happen on occasion in eighteenth century England. ...

• Word Count: 1015
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Flea appears deceptively casual in its composition and style but is infact a complex argument. ... The pretence of shock follows with his comparison of her act with the biblical character Herod. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...

• Word Count: 1246
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The process of socialization relating to marriage and other intimate relationships is both complex and arduous as relationships are consistently developing and changing. ... Having both children and professional careers is can be stressful, as Quirke states "research suggests that raising children has become increasingly intensive, complex, and time-consuming" (2006:388). ... It is the story of a suspicious disappearance of the brilliant and jealous character, Amy Dunne, on the day of her wedding anniversary to husband Nick Dunne. ...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate