People take freedom for granted, on many levels, but have they ever questioned whether freedom is bliss, or a curse? The Lamp at Noon illustrates the protagonist, Ellen’s internal conflicts about fleeing the dust-ridden, barren, prairie farm...

Although the primary aesthetic focus in As For Me and My House by Sinclair Ross is on the barren landscape, Philip’s artwork plays an equally important part, even if it is not mentioned to the same degree. Philip Bentley’s artwork acts as a...

Throughout both John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost and Sinclair Ross’ novel As For Me and My House, characteristics and implications of sex are comparable. To elaborate, only sex within wedlock is regarded as righteous as both works support...