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Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

Philip Marlowe and The Long Goodbye

toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chief Bromden

no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...

First Four Chapters of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Nature versus Nurture Debate

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

Overview of the Novel Passing by Nella Larsen

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

'Do-Gooder' Satire in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Huck should not do it anymore. Huck thinks, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they dont know ...

Thematic Analysis of The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

sadness perhaps about the image, for it is presented in the season of autumn which is, for some, a time of dying as nature sheds i...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Interpretation of a Specific Passage

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...

Animal Rights Debate

She says: "The question should not be: Do we have something in common-reason, self-consciousness, a soul-with other animals? (With...

Night Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...

The Lost World by Michael Crichton Novel and Film

The film has Malcolm being lured to the island by millionaire John Hammond, the mastermind behind the development of the dinosaurs...

Knowledge Motif in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

The more involved Willie becomes in politics, the more corrupt he becomes. This is because he acquires knowledge on how the game i...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Sympathy for the Protagonist

keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Uses of Black and White

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

Sissy and Louisa in Hard Times by Charles Dickens

family and they come to be grateful for what she has done for them" (ClassicNotes). In the end of the story we are told, by Dicken...

V.S. Naipaul's Enigma of Arrival

movement of Naipaul from newcomer to departing visitor. The first part of the book shows Naipaul as he comes to England to experie...

Gilgamesh and Kurtz in Heart of Darkness

merely oppressed and used the natives. Kurtz is a man who is very diverse and very intelligent. He is a powerful speaker, a poet, ...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and the Characters of Jane and Edward Rochester

combined with his perception of Jane, makes him think a bit more deeply about his character when he tells her to go to the library...

Themes of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...

Jose Maria Arguedas' Deep Rivers

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the American Dream

means just that-and he must be about His Fathers business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty. So he invented ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Manipulation of Narrative

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...

Duncan Heyward in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

a natural hero because of his knowledge of and respect for the landscape. Heyward, on the other hand, establishes his ineptitude b...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

Hunter Thompson/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

downers, screamers, (and) laughers (Thompson 4). Additionally, their arsenal against sober perception also includes "a quart of te...

Summary and Questions on the Last Three Chapters of Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker

politicians ordeal. Henrys feelings of loneliness and isolation are revealed in a type of flashback manner that links the social ...

How Racism in the Criminal Justice System and Media is Reflected in Literature

In six pages this paper discusses how racism by the media and the criminal justice system is reflected in the novels Native Son, A...

Enlightenment Attack of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

frightening lack of individuality. This is also exemplified in society today. Was he correct? Is the world turning the people into...

1984 by George Orwell and Language's Power

everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of decei...