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An Epistolary Novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways in which the novel's format represents a series of letters that have been written ...

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Slavery Commentary on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

Hard Times by Charles Dickens and a Thomas Gradgrind Sr. Character Analysis

- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...

Literary Analysis of Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

In five pages this paper presents a literary analysis of this novel's text. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography...

The Motif of the Journey In Contemporary Literature

This 5 page paper analyzes the way in which the motif of the journey was used in three classic American novels: The Grapes of Wrat...

The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In five pages the author's Russian atheism and socialism conflict is examined within the context of the novel's 6 characters. The...

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

In ten pages this paper examines the novel's themes and considers Nabokov's author perspectives and where they are rooted. Five s...

A Man for the People by Chinua Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages Achebe's political critique is examined within the context of the novel's story that is eerily...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Roughing It with Swan, Twain and the Indians

Northwest Coast by James G. Swain and Mark Twain's Roughing It are two novels which deal with the outdoors and the American west. ...

Men and Understanding Life in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea

In six pages this paper examines these novels' male protagonists and their ability to accept the brutality of life. There are no ...

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and Its Conclusion

In five pages this paper argues in support of the inevitability of the novel's conclusion because of the emphasis on Maggie and To...

Using Irony in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's structure in terms of the influence of irony in its reinforcement. There are no ot...

Howard's End by E.M. Forster

In six pages the novel's development is considered within the context of the words 'only connect' and its relationship to family t...

Feminism and Social Elements in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper examines Shelley's novel from a feminist perspective. The author argues that the novel served as a platform for Shelle...

Color Symbolism in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In ten pages this paper examines how the author employs color symbolism in order to enhance the reader's understanding of his nove...

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's protagonist Patrick Lewis in a consideration of the alien or outsider status assign...

Existentialism and 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus

clerk in Algiers, learns of his mothers death in a nursing home. He attends her funeral without any show of sorrow. He neither we...

Social Redemption in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

The various socioeconomic issues presented by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables are discussed in seventeen pages with the novel's Roma...

Reality and Illusion in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

This paper consists of six pages and examines the ongoing conflict between reality and illusion that plagues the novel's protagoni...

Artistry in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages the literary artistry of James Joyce is examined in a consideration of this novel's dramatic form, language, and sy...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

Structure and Struggle in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

Butler & Eliot

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

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

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

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

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

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Andrew Holleran/Grief

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

Sun Also Rises/A Banned Book

of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...