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Gogol's Dead Souls

to be changed. Unfortunately, though technology seems to advance, human relationships and nature does not seem to advance. ...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Symbolism

die Puritans. Hesters first act in The Scarlet Letter seems to be an act of free will," that being her decision to commit adultery...

An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's, Jacob's Room

death in The Great War. Unlike classical protagonists, Jacob exists not in the center of the action but always on the periphery (...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

River's Significance in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

Things Fall Apart by Achebe and Heart of Darkness by Conrad

with this great solitude" (73). Kurtz allows all of his most primitive desires to run rampant. The experience of being away from a...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

Aziz is a doctor who is living in India as the novel opens. His wife has died and he is raising his three children. Dr. Aziz makes...

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 ...

Analysis of Symbolism in 'The Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

his own parent/child relationship. Not coincidentally, Frankenstein labors "for nine months... to complete his experiment" (Riche...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

the far corners of the globe, and also describes the whaling operations. Queequeg becomes ill and is so convinced he is dying tha...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

James Dickey's Deliverance

said that it eventually becomes the story of the city versus the country. On their first night to make camp, Ed Gentry and Bobby g...

Freedom Quest of Huck Finn

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

Charles Dickens' Hard Times

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

Sailor Song by Ken Kesey and Symbolism

In 5 pages the first chapter of Ken Kesey's 1992 novel is analyzed in terms of how its symbolism provides a foundation for the com...

Symbolic Tale of The Milagro Beanfield War

In six pages this paper considers the story of The Milagro Beanfield War and its moving symbolism. There are 2 sources cited in t...

Literary Metaphors Involving Water

In five pages this paper examines how water is metaphorically depicted in 'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy, 'The Innocen...

'Shiloh' by Bobbie Ann Mason and Characterization

In five pages the ways in which the characters of Norma Jean and Leroy are developed through Civil War symbolism are discussed. T...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and symbolism in Hurston's 1937 classic novel. Six sources are cited i...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Symbolism

In five pages the novel is examined in an overview with symbolism the primary analytical focus. There are no other sources cited....

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Social Values

In 5 pages this paper discusses how social values are presented in this novel by Charles Dickens in a consideration of setting, po...

Imagery in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper examines how Fitzgerald employs symbolism and imagery in his novel much as a lyric poem would in terms o...

Black Dogs by Ian McEwen

in a living room in Nebraska? Opposites Opposites often help us determine what is real, or what is truth. Something as simple ...

Food in Ulysses by James Joyce

crustcrumbs, fried hencods roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys, which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scen...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Ibo Children

In six pages this paper examines what social, political, spiritual, and physical symbolism children represent in this acclaimed Ni...

Freedom of Speech According to Duke University Professor Stanley Fish

In twenty one pages this paper critiques Professor Stanley Fish's views on freedom of speech as expressed in There's No Such thing...

Symbolism in "The Great Gatsby"

so pervades The Great Gatsby that Fitzgeralds true achievement was to appropriate American legend."1 The book gives us both romanc...