Paul's friendly with the Leivers family of Willey Farm, and a tenderness grew between him and the daughter Miriam, a soulful, shy girl. ... A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. ... If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. ... Morel, daughter of a middle-class family, is a strong-willed, intelligent and ambitious woman who is fascinated by a warm, vigorous and sensuous coal miner, ...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

"My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued to be their single offspring" (p 42). ... As Victor recounts this event to Walton, Victor shares "when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences" (50). ... Lacan tells us that the oedipal stage occurs closely with the time words begin to be used as symbols to represent things, the linguistic/symbolic order. ... Victor spends time alone with the dead, seeing himself dead at some unconscious level. ... Doctors of the time prescribed it for almost every aliment. ...

• Word Count: 2532
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Henry James was one of the famous writers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was known as an innovative and independent novelist. One of James' novels, "Turn of the Screw" (1898), has caused a lot of controversy among many critics, and each of them has had a particular interpret...

• Word Count: 2947
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There is not enough canonically known information to draw conclusions from her childhood to determine any unresolved conflicts from that time. But in the present time, Cosima tries to underplay the pressure she's under from the other clones. ... According to the behaviorists, Cosima would have learned a lot at her time at the Dyad Institute, a biotechnology research center in which she was forced to work under. ...

• Word Count: 2873
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate