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Comparing Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Voltaire's Candide

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...

Huck Finn and Sound and Fury, A Comparison

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. While vastly different in tone, each author addresses the fact that slavery and the le...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Comparing Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front with Joseph Heller's Catch-22

the present reality of the protagonists, but providing exposition through the use of flashbacks. This use of voice emphasizes the...

Comparing The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain and The Sketch Book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving

The temporary absence of worldly scenes and employments produces a state of mind peculiarly fitted to receive new and vivid impres...

Griffins and Carruths Compared

Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader b...

Depiction of Women in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love and James Joyce's Ulysses

the chapter "Penelope", the readers is somehow seduced into believing that Mollys thoughts and monologue are somehow unmediated (S...

Two Views of the Story of Beowulf

"proud of his plunder, sought his dwelling with that store of slaughter" (p. 25). Beowulf is written in Old English and set some...

Comparison of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and Emma by Jane Austen

This is reflected in Emmas refusal to allow Harriet to marry her well-intentioned suitor, Robert Martin, whom she dismissed as "a ...

How Women Are Treated in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now

(Hunter G01). Kurtz is near death, ravaged by his experiences and close to being insane (Hunter G01). Kurtz has not civilized the ...

The Theme of Alienation as it is Portrayed in Novels of the 20th Century

"alienation has especially come to signify the difficult relation between the individual and his sense of difference and distance ...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and an Intertextual Comparative Analysis with Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

in binary opposites, most commonly represented symbolically, in contrasts of light and dark, black and white, culturally in civili...

Comparison of Juan Cortes de Tolosa's El Lazarillo de Manzanares and Miguel de Cervantes' El Lazarillo de Tormes

cultivated veneer that the monarchy and the church did not want the general public to see. These works, which also incorporated f...

Analyzing Summer and Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

As bleak and hopeless as this story is, we are also able to see that Mattie and Ethan genuinely do love each other, and...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Comparison of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Emma by Jane Austen

social restrictions she found particularly repugnant. First published in 1816, Emma "criticizes the manners and values of the upp...

Ionesco's The Rhinoceros, Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Politics and Laughter

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

Paris and London in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

Comparative Analysis of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

through an overhead connection powered public transportation to enable people to enjoy more flexibility in their lives and in thei...

Comparision of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

modest eyes" (Hardy, 2002). As this suggests, Sue was highly conflicted over gender roles from the time she was first aware them. ...

Comparative Analyis of Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain's Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

Karen Van Der Zee's 'A Secret Sorrow'

else who contrives to tell the tale. This is part of the use of language by an author. The other influence on voice, it can be sai...

Cultural Assumptions in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

beyond the fact that the English essentially control them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each ch...

A Comparison of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and The Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris

world with it" (Morrison PG). Morrison shows how overcoming stereotypical racial images is not an easy accomplishment in Pecolas...

Sexuality as Depicted in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

specific to a time, place and social situation, in this case, a girls boarding school. Brodie believes that she is in her intellec...

Ethnicity in Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

The Dragon's Village by Yuan tsung Chen

aunt and uncle reluctantly agree. Chen commits that they did not oppose this plan "too vigorously" because they were "apprehensive...