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Frankenstein - A Comparison of the Film and Novel by Kenneth Branagh

This research report examines both representations of Frankenstein. Positive and negative features of each are discussed. This six...

Maturity in Legacy, a Novel by James A. Michener

with methodical, journeyman style. As he told a radio interviewer in 1992: "My job is to be a hard-working man who sits at a moder...

Novels in General; “Einstein’s Dreams” in Particular

new out of it each time. Its a favorite because it is full of adventure, song, deep emotion, a portrayal of true friendship and sa...

The Concept of Time in Two Novels

do no wrong, which makes her introduction to the novel somewhat gooey and overwrought. However, she does point out that Woolf foll...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Maya Angelou's I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings

In five pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of Angelou's novel and the TV movie adaptation in a discussion of strengt...

Things Fall Apart: A Cultural Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Novel

This act served a dual significance - it ended Okonkwos life and anguish, and it was a parting shot to the Christianity that had t...

Innocence Lost In Bowen's Novel, Death of the Heart

This paper examines Elizabeth Bowen's novel in terms of how the characters respond to loosing innocence and disillusionment. This...

Novels of Danielle Steel

aspect of family struggle, in that they hobnob with social elite while at the same time tend to their ailing father who appears to...

Surprise Novel Endings of Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper provides a tutorial on constructing an essay on the subject of how Christie used surprise endings in her ...

The Structure of Sula, a Novel by Toni Morrison

This 5 page paper examines the structure of Toni Morrison's novel Sula. The writer argues that Morrison uses the friendship betwee...

Days of the Week Characters in Chesteron’s Novel

in anarchy wherein a lack of rules in a society would lead to utter chaos and the ultimate destruction of order in the world. Sy...

Three Young Adult Novels

She builds a strong house for herself and makes weapons, and lives alone for 18 years. During that time she hunts down the dogs th...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

Adam Smith: Theory Of Growth And International Trade

in the context of economic growth" (Afonso, 2001). One of Smiths (1991) greatest concerns is the variance in national wealth from...

Two African Novels.

is not, if she has the courage to break away and follow her own convictions. She tries to reassure her mother that shell write, ...

Scholarship (True Historical Analysis) And Contemporary Entertainment (Popular Culture): Erroneousness And Embellishment

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

Symbolism in Two War Novels

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

The Realistic Novel: Pride and Prejudice and Fathers and Sons

beautiful or charming as her sister. Her charm lies in her honesty, openness and her wit. Darcy is a man who, at first, seems take...

The Modern Novel: Austen, Eliot, Joyce

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Societal Struggles of Man and John Steinbeck's Novels

In ten pages Steinbeck's depiction of man's continuing struggles with society are examined within the context of The Grapes of Wra...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

ever since Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize" (Simon 64). The novel was an attention grabber and did have it elements of superna...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

5 Novels and Questions Answered

through different characters" (p. 268). While this theme is worked out principally through Newland Archers yearning for the "free"...

Banning the Novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

we present the following paper which discusses the banning of Steinbecks novel. Banning "The Grapes of Wrath" In more fully un...

Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Family as a Theme in Alcott's Novel, Little Women

Little Women centers on the four March sisters; Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy; all of whom are proper young ladies with a proper...

Identity in the Novel as a Philosophical Exploration

there is continuity through time in terms of personal identity and her doubt about her own continuing identity is contradicted by...

Aspects of Storytelling in Erdrich's Novel, Tracks

he blackens his face, seeks counsel in dreams, and draws on a broad repertoire of power songs to "sing a burnt child back to healt...