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Why Nineteen Eighty Four Was Written by George Orwell

why he wrote the story with the thesis being that Orwell wrote the story to warn of the serious communist threat. 1984 "George ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Protagonist Symbolism

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

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...

Social Mobility and Death in Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The name Thaw for instance, in this work, can be indicative of the fact that his character is in a state of flux at times. One can...

Characteristics of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

heroes had a faithful sidekick. Through the inspired use of satire, Cervantes creates a character that reveals the ridiculousness...

'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime

two of his real-life characters, Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty, who once met Emma Goldman, the revolutionary, who informed ...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

Madame Bovary as Naturalism

carried in the pockets of her apron...They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, pos...

Steppenwolf and Personalities

and identities within himself. But, he fails miserably at truly becoming more than he is and this is a problem. As noted, his prob...

Conformity and Individuality in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...

Pleasantville and The Giver

are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Critical Analysis of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner

are not so lucky; they remain in Afghanistan under Soviet rule and then later are subjected to the tyranny of the Taliban regime d...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

Renault: "The Persian Boy"

man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

How Gustave Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes Thematize the Effect of Reading on the Imagination in Madame Bovary and Don Quixote

saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...

Toni Morrison’s Sula: Moral Ambiguity

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

and dies. The plane crashes, but Brian manages to survive it by landing the plane in a lake. Brians journey begins. While he is ...

Ada's Journey in Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Ethnocentrism

student prefers to cite a movie. Additionally, as this writer/tutor knows nothing of the students background, for this assignment,...

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan

us with a red sorghum field. This section presents the readers with a look at the region prior to the war. It is a story of a youn...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Its Issues

that is a powerful tragedy, it is a truth that has happened throughout time, over and over, as one culture envelopes another. Okon...

An Overview of Hooks', Feminism is For Everybody

had ceased to be for everyone. This is where the movement failed she suggests. Brooks puts forth a type of clarion call for wome...