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value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

1902 novel Heart of Darkness is widely acknowledge as a literary classic that provides considerable psychological insight into the...

The Count of Monte Cristo is one of Alexandre Dumas's most well known and popular novels. The writer looks at the way that the au...

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

why it has that affect. In this paper we will consider the last two paragraphs of Mores work giving an opinion on the affect it...

he recalls when his mother stole a piece of ham just so she could feel it to her family. In another example, he recalls when his ...

with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...

a lonely young woman who spent much of her life on a solitary journey toward love and acceptance. It was not something she would ...

arrived in America to enter a new life, a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an na...

characters live lives of extremes, and the magic which pervades their lives eludes to the surreal nature of the story. The Use o...

capacity for the others hyper-intellectualization (Peavier 100). La Maga is completely devoted to Oliveira. However, possibly be...

However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...