... a matter of relativity and contingence. In American literature this essential problem becomes obvious through the many forms of narratives which take the shape of stories centered all on this major theme, of the quest for a private, inner identity as a major human experience. As the Americans were the ... Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. The way they have envisaged their works centered on the theme of the quest for a specific identity is part of their process of ... ...

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... Marlowe from "The Big Sleep" written by Raymond Chandler, film directed by Howard Hawks has been thrust into a morally corrupt and decayed world of the 30's and 40's, with drugs, sex, blackmail, gamblers, pornographers and murders Crime was becoming an alarmingly large problem in the 1940's, within the major urban areas. The film was made in a time when totalitarian regimes were ... the other hand, when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes he established the conventions of the detective story genre, achieving popularity because the values and social attitudes in his stories re...

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... Beauty. Objects or concepts that are pleasing to some part of the human mind have always been an enigma to authors. In two of his stories in The Martian Chronicles, called "The Fire Balloons" and "Usher II", Ray Bradbury shows what happens when Beauty is neglected of forgotten, and ... compares the Truths found behind two very different Beauties. Both stories have misconceptions of Truth in them. In the Fire Balloons, the missionary priests go to Mars looking for sin. The Episcopalian church chose Father Peregrine because ... further into sin. When Father Stone asks Father Peregrine ho...

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... 's rights have been granted freedom, but there are still traces of gender discrimination shown in many areas. Both women and men do not always get the equal rights the opposite sex gets. Such as men get to participate in certain sports, but women do not. This is also seen the other way around, but the women getting to participate in certain ... activities, but men can't. There is yet another difference in men and women. Women are seen as the gentle type, and men are masculant and tough. The opposite sex both handle situations different, and they both don't express their feelings in the s...

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... his work, perhaps suggesting that Poe himself may have been fighting against insanity. Foucault suggests that, "in all cultures and at all times there has been a system of constraint toward sex, but that we are remarkable for having such a strict divide between reason and unreason, health and sickness, and normal and abnormal." (Re-placing Madness and Civilisation, page 10). In literature ... . Martha also states in her essay that "Poe was a perfectionist who left very little to guess work" (page 4). In light of this then, was it deliberate that the main character's sex is kept secret, a...

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