http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/49/marion-a-davis Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:27:11 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:27:11 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/76/biblical-allusions-in-the-house-of-fame By Marion A. Davis - In Book II of “The House of Fame,” the narrator states that his dream is of greater significance than the biblical visions of “Isaye,…kyng Nabugodonosor, [and] Pharoa” (514-5). Beginning with line 480, “The House of Fame” includes descriptions of an eagle that transports the main character, a great being adorned with precious metals, and a large field lacking cultivation or creature. Though these descriptions may appear to be unrelated in their roles in the story, they possess one common factor: they refer to a biblical dream by either similarities or... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:13 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/76/biblical-allusions-in-the-house-of-fame http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/74/poetic-structure-in-robert-frosts-stopping-by-the-woods-on-a-snowy-evening By Marion A. Davis - In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the motive behind the narrator’s “stopping” has long been debated (3). On one side, some argue that the narrator is simply looking over the scenery. On the other hand, some insist that the narrator is contemplating suicide. While the poem does – at first glance – appear to be describing the narrator as merely looking at nature, his gazing upon the frozen forest is only a superficial layer. If the reader were to examine “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from the technical aspects... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:05 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/74/poetic-structure-in-robert-frosts-stopping-by-the-woods-on-a-snowy-evening http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1691/a-brief-look-at-feminism-in-shakespeares-macbeth By Marion A. Davis - Patriarchal society encourages Lady Macbeth to invest herself in the role of mother. Lady Macbeth is seen as selfish and abnormal when she confesses that there is a situation in which she would “[dash] [her child’s] brains out” (I.vii), a very unnatural statement according to patriarchy’s belief that women’s desire to have and protect children is a part of “their natural biological makeup” (Tyson 97). Though intelligent and strong at the beginning of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is reduced to an insignificant person haunted by nightmares and guilt as a result... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:33 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1691/a-brief-look-at-feminism-in-shakespeares-macbeth http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/65/literary-analysis-turn-of-the-screw By Marion A. Davis - The beginning of the story finds several vacationing families telling ghost tales as entertainment. The reader is not led to believe that any of these tales being told are factual. However, when Douglas offers his story, the reader is expected to understand that the governess is narrating a true account. What makes this story different from the others being told? Is it because the story is narrated by an unknown individual or is it because the story is read from her written statement? (The fact that the ghost tale is put down in words seems to give it more credibility.) Douglas could have easily... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:22 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/65/literary-analysis-turn-of-the-screw http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/63/religion-in-caribbean-literature By Marion A. Davis - The language of religion plays an important part in the novels Brown Girl, Brownstones; The Farming of Bones; and In the Time of the Butterflies. In Brown Girl, Brownstones, the author presents the intricate Silla as a woman who is weary of her work and calls on the “Lord” for “power” (Marshall 224).  In The Farming of Bones, poignant symbols of hardships faced due to ethnic cleansing rest in examples such as the pronunciation of the word perejil and the religious value of Massacre River. In the Time of the Butterflies describes the lives of the Mirabal sisters in... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:09 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/63/religion-in-caribbean-literature http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/56/derek-walcotts-a-far-cry-from-africa By Marion A. Davis - Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa” expresses how Walcott is torn between “Africa and the English tongue [he] love[s]” (30). Several of Walcott’s poems – “The Schooner Flight” and Omeros – include some elements of French patois and West Indian English. The West Indies had “traded hands fourteen times in…wars between the British and French” (Norton 2770), and Walcott tied each of these languages together to convey to his readers the extremity of his “racially mixed ancestry” (Farrell 2) and the indeterminacy... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:37 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/56/derek-walcotts-a-far-cry-from-africa