In Les Miserables, one of the Protagonists, Fantine, attacks a citizen on the open street after he insulted her and put snow in the back of her dress. She is then arrested by Javert, the local police chief. In his office, he sentences her to six months of prison for attacking that man. The book t...

Can anybody please translate this particular sonnet from the poem in question, I need a new perspective on it for close reading. Thank you When last I saw thee, I did not thee see: It was thine Image, which in my thoughts lay So lively figured, as no times delay Could suffer me in heart to pa...

I hope that's the right site to post this question. There's a famous quote of Helen Kellers Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. I wonder - what is this about? What is the context? What did she mean? And most importantl...

I'm searching for the source of the Japanese story of a samurai spat upon which Joseph Campbell relates in The Power of Myth. (oddly the book has no citation on this). . . . there is a story . . . of the samurai, the Japanese warrior, who had the duty to avenge the murder of his overlord. When h...

In "Crow Improvises" (text version), the protagonist conjoins a list of disparate objects, where each pair of objects ignites a spark. Putting aside the symbolic meaning of each object, it is clear to me what each object is - except for one: There was this man Who took the sun in one hand, a lea...

Where is Napoleon during the battle? Is this significant? Also, in Animal Farm, what does the windmill symbolize? Please explain in detail.