.... Summers, the head of the lottery, has to gather the information of all the households the night before to make the list for the following day. He has to mix the papers up with the one with the black dot on it in the box. The head of the household picks the paper from the box to seen if their family drew the dot or not. This event takes just a few hours to accomplish. The losing family then has to draw to decide who will lose in the household. The person who draws the dot will then get stoned to death. This is a ritual for the townspeople each year. There .....

.... to see it. White is one of the colors on the bed, made from the Tree of Life. White symbolizes the innocence of Adam and Eve. White is again used while portraying Sir Galahad and Sir Percivale. Two white bulls symbolize the two knights, who are virgins, sinless, and humble. White once more represents purity and innocence. Black can be used to symbolize death, evil, and hell as well as mourning, sickness, and sinfulness. Sir Percivale receives a black magnificent horse with supernatural powers. The black symbolizes evil and the devil because the horse .....

.... population. The setting of helps add to the conflict and sets up a fertile environment for associated guilt (Weales 58). Examples of associated guilt as presented in are the hangings and convictions of nineteen men and women and two dogs in Salem in 1692. Their bodies were buried in shallow graves or not at all. The trial of these people are perhaps the most disconcerting single episode in American history. The trials were started when several girls accused members of the community of witchcraft. These accusations led to warrants being issued on Feb 29 .....

.... Pumblechook about Miss Havisham and reveals this fact to Joe, Joe becomes upset with Pip. “‘Terrible?’ cried Joe. ‘Awful! What possessed you?’”(99) Joe can not believe what he is hearing and takes the right course of action by making Pip really think about what he has done. A child like Pip does not see the consequences of his actions until he really thinks about the problems he has caused. Joe blatantly expresses his feelings to Pip and Pip becomes ashamed of his actions. Joe, however, did not do a very good job of being a parent in the first place for believin .....

.... unable to function in the outside world. As previously stated, symbols play an important role in The Glass Menagerie. Symbols are substitutions that are used to express a particular theme, idea, or character. One symbol that is used over and over is the fire escape. This has different meanings to the characters. For Tom, it is a place where he can escape to. It is where he goes to escape from his mother's nagging. He is open to the outside world when he is on the fire escape. It is his way out. For Laura, it is where the gentleman caller enters .....

.... of a middle aged Chicano woman who has been denied the right to live with the socially prudent. According to Kevstin Shands, Piercy says: "It is primarily a novel about Connie. There's a lot about social injustice in it, and about how a woman stops hating herself and becomes able to love herself enough to fight for her own survival" (66). In Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time the motif of mothering is the basis of the story; she uses a mother as the protagonist and creates a utopian society based on the strength of the nurturing. To see how the mother .....

.... heroine, whose attitude of feminine pride and tradition is still popular in today's world. Setting: The entire play takes place on the island of Corinth in present day Greece. Individual places such as Medea/Jason's home, and the palace of the king and princess are also spoken of and used in the play. It has an ancient Greek setting as well. Theme: "What goes around comes around." The theme of revenge in the sense of Medea's strong desire to seek revenge on Jason. Another possible theme of Medea may be that at times a punishment of revenge should justi .....

.... Eliot's dramatic monologue is built around three major themes. The first of these is the time theme. Drenched with anxiety, Prufrock says: "And indeed there will be time." Prufrock uses time as an excuse to remain comfortable in his undisturbed universe. By opening the fourth stanza with: "And indeed there will be time," Eliot echoes the memorable line: "Had we but world enough and time' from Andrew Marvell's seductive poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Ironically, Prufrock does not feel compelled to seize the day(Pagnattaro 108). Prufrock repeats his conv .....