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Virginia Woolf: “Orlando”

as much more fluid and changeable than most people can accept or are comfortable with. The passage under consideration begins wit...

Considering “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

is very short, "sexuality seems still to be a strongbox hiding the mystery of a womans I" (Kundera 200). So, because he is truly f...

The Works of Lois Lowry

these memories will be. He learns that the memories are of a different time, when people loved and laughed and suffered, something...

Meeting the Protagonists

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

Journey to Self-Awareness in Emma, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and My Name is Asher Lev

her better judgment, but she was initially dismissive. Emma prefers living through others instead of living for herself, and her ...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Don DeLillo: “White Noise”

with a dangerous and illegal drug said to rid a person of the fear of dying. Jack Gladney is not exactly a wholesome specimen, but...

Willa Cather: “My Antonia”

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

Theme of Colonialism in Sembene Ousmane’s God’s Bits of Wood and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

in this instance French Dakar-Niger railroad owners (toubabs) versus impoverished workers in pre-Independence era Senegal who soug...

Settings and Their Importance in Frankenstein

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

The Invisible Man and the Search for Identity

(Ellison 16). This was in relationship to his success as a student and the way he presented himself, working in a very docile mann...

Anatole France: “The Gods Will Have Blood”

finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...

Lucy Gayheart

to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

precision of mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply ...

Editor's Review of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Historical Context

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

An Analysis Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

impotent as the result of a war injury; Lady Brett Ashley, Jakes former Army nurse and ex-lover, who had, after the breakup, taken...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

Comparison Between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Jacobs

Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and the Contributions of Romance Narratives

social and political patriarchy of the time dictated that estates automatically reverted to the control of the male heir, which in...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London and Free Will

are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...