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The Hour of the Star, Issues of Life and Death

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector offers a perspective on life and death. This paper is a critical analysis of that novel....

Book Review of Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

In five pages this historical novel that features the Battle of Gettysburg is subjected to a title and content analysis. There is...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville and the Conflict Between Good and Evil

In five pages this paper discusses the evil of Squeak and Claggart and the goodness of Billy Budd in an analysis of the novel by H...

E.M. Forster's Howard's End

In five pages a socioeconomic analysis of Forster's novel is presented. There are no other sources listed....

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

is blunt when she explains to Martin why their marriage has failed: "Its partly my being so much older and being a sort of mother...

19th Century France and the Influence of Romantic Author Victor Hugo

This paper considers Victor Hugo's influence on France during the 19th century in an analysis of the significance of his novels Th...

Analysis of The Guide by R.K. Narayan

attached to temple dancing that associated it with prostitution. Prior to his prison term, Raju was an actual guide, giving peop...

Novel Line in If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines one line from the novel in an analysis of its significants to the characterizations and the story...

Historical Inhumanity in Night by Elie Wiesel and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this comparative novel analysis reveals how man has historically exhibited inhumanity toward his fellow man. Two so...

Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

In three pages Americanization is one of the thematic aspects considered in this analysis of Julia Alvarez's novel. There is 1 so...

Concepts of Questing and Conforming in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A conceptual analysis of these English novels focuses upon their representation of questing and conforming through such convention...

Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and the Protagonist Okonkwo

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Okonkwo featured in Chinua Achebe's novel in terms of how the Ibo culture i...

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Escape Themes in the Works of Larry McMurtry

In six pages this essay discusses Horseman, Pass By and The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry in an analysis of how the escape t...

Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane and Realism

In six pages the realist literary genre is defined and then applied to an analysis of the 1895 novel Effi Briest by Theodor Fontan...

Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily in Obasan by Joy Kogawa

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily as featured in Japanese Canadian author Joy K...

Character of Old Major in Animal Farm by George Orwell

farm listens to him and believes him and looks up to him. "Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle Whi...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Significance and Symbolism of the River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables With a focus on Hepzibah

how deceiving appearances can actually be, and also illustrates how despite the rapid change from old-world values to modern sensi...

Images in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea

to be a heroic character. From the many examples in Wide Sargasso Sea, one can argue that Antoinette is in fact the hero of the s...

Margaret Craven's I Heard the Owl Call My Name

respect and seeks to learn from them, as he also provides spiritual guidance. Marks way of relating to the natives is starkly cont...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the Character of Jake

Hemingway offers the tone and internal dialogue of Jake that sets the stage for understanding his emotional rut: "This was Brett t...

'Lost Generation' and the American Dream in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

who does not exhibit the same or nearly the same amount of wealth and material possessions. The lost generation of America is ext...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Pecola

life of the white people in society. Morrison often uses excerpts, that gradually become very distorted and run together in lines,...

Thomas Harris' Silence of the Lambs

make the lambs stop screaming, do you think theyd be all right too and you wouldnt wake up again in the dark and hear the lambs sc...

Erich Maria Remarque's Representation of War in All Quiet on the Western Front

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

To Kill A Mockingbird, a 1960s Perspective

adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...