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Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Motherhood, and Milk

In 8 pages this paper examines the thematic significance of motherhood and the symbolism of breastfeeding in the 1987 novel Belove...

Themes in Dostoevski's Notes From Underground

warped psychology and near incomprehensibility of a character both affected by and revolting against the ramifications of philosop...

Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

In six pages this Chinese novel from the 18th century is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Biological Determinism

In three page this paper examines biological determinism in a brief overview that references Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist. ...

The Old Bunch by Meyer Levin

In twelve pages this paper examines this novel by Meyer Levin in terms of ethnic heritage and how it was influenced by the author'...

Islamic Culture and Women in So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba

focus in the Islamic groupings of Senegal. The two friends describe their lives in complicity and state things like "our lives de...

Coping with Death in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and 'Mid Term Break' by Seamus Heaney

In five pages this paper examines how the young boys in this novel and poem cope with the death of a younger brother and considers...

Film Versions of Anne of Avonlea and Anne of Green Gables

In ten pages the transition from the printed page unto the visual silver screen is examined in a consideration of these novels tur...

Politics in the Book and Film Primary Colors

In six pages this paper examines politics in the United States and how it is portrayed in the novel and cinematic versions of Prim...

Theme of Victimization in Uncle Tom's Cabin, Redburn, and Wieland

origin of the mysterious voices turned out to have a quite natural explanation, but there is nothing particularly comforting in th...

Aspects of Detective Fiction From the Nineteen Hundreds

This paper examines six detective novels from the nineteen hundreds, and addresses common themes seen throughout each. The author...

Heroes and Heroines in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

gained on the Italian front. Although Hemingway delicately avoids telling us precisely where the wound is, we know it is around hi...

Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

In five pages this paper discusses the sexual orientation themes in each novels with a contrast and comparison of characterization...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

Themes in the Works of Fyodor Doestovsky

In six pages this essay compares the characterizations in Dostoevsky's novels The Brothers Karamazov, Possessed, The Idiot, and Cr...

Individuality in Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the conflict between conformity and universality and examines how individuality an...

1980 Film Version of Paul Brodeur's The Stunt Man

In five pages this paper analyzes the camera uses to describe the insights of the protagonist and to keep the action moving in Ric...

Power, Sexuality, and Impotence in The Trial

abuse of this abstract hierarchy of power, which can so easily be turned against an innocent man. The propensity of human beings t...

Guterson, Wharton, Grisham, and Verisimilitude

because he sounds like a man who knows what hes talking about. That initial trust having been established, we now feel that we can...

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah O. Jewett

In five pages this paper discusses why contemporary criticism of this 19th century novel often falls short. Six sources are cited...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

Stephen Dedalus's Growth in Ulysses and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In ten pages these James Joyce novels are analyzed in terms of how Stephen's character evolves. There are 6 sources cited in the ...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

No Greater Love by Danielle Steel

In five pages the author's narrative style is examined in this novel review. There are no other sources listed....

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

In six pages this essay analyzes Turgenev's novel in terms of how the nihilistic and pastoral is contrasted with characterization ...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Relationships

This paper consists of five pages and considers the difficult relationships with men and what they represent in the lone novel by ...

Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Journal Observations

In eight pages this journal observation critiques and evaluates this novel by Betty Smith in a consideration of setting, plot, ton...

Message of Billy Budd by Herman Melville

composition. Among her miscellaneous multitude, the Indomitable mustered several individuals who, however inferior in grade, were...

Weakness of Character in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...