"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. Carol Weshoven looks at Priscilla's character as her prime example of child brides in American literature in her article, "America's Child Brides: The Price of a Bad Bargain."" ... I would like to take a much more pedestrian look at Priscilla's character, not trying to find well-hidden, dark sexual secret...

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These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the actions of the central character within the novel, Beloved. ... By examining the complexities of Sethe's character it can be said that she is a woman who chooses to love her children but not herself. ... Throughout Beloved, Sethe's character consistently displays the duplistic nature of her actions. ... The truth that Sethe's character selfishly avoids is the actual physical death that she has inflicted upon her child. ... Sethe's character is no exception. ...

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Other characters include Frasquita and Mercedes, gypsy friends of Carmen, Dancairo and Remendado, both smugglers and criminals. ... In the meantime Micaela is in search of Don Jose in the mountains, Don Jose fires his gun off into the direction of a stranger in the mountains to their attention, it turns out to be Escamillo (Bleiler 44). ...

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According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that Shakespeare demonstrate is not only a physical inability but also a mental flaw that both characters present in the play. ... Firstly, Lear's blindness is the main issue of all the disaster in the play because he is the blindest among all the characters. ... He drive her away from his kingdom when he claim: "Here I disclaim all my paternal care, propinquity and property of blood, and as a stranger to my heart and me hold this from thee for ever... The suffering mainly affec...

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• Grade Level: High School