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Romanticism in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

powerful issue. While Puritan thought had gotten the country this far, "Religion...was also ready for romanticism and its kind of ...

Carter Beats the Devil by Glenn David Gold

At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea ...

Comparing the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne

he urges Faith to deny the Devil and look to Heaven, he suddenly finds himself alone in the forest. Although Brown has escaped the...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

Religion in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

on a culture. Indeed, to mask such somber episodes as Umuofias abrupt European colonization as being an important part of global ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and Individuality

enough within the character of Catherine to urge her to marry for money and social position, rather than innocent or passionate lo...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Beloved by Toni Morrison, Psyche of American Slaves, Ghosts, and Myths

are somewhat consistent with superstitions followed by the slave culture of the time and a segment of the African heritage of the ...

Thematic Analysis of Things Fall Apart by Achebe

his titles. He is part of the society, and like any good leader or member, he finds that he must make personal sacrifices in order...

Comparative Analysis of Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

Cross. In both novels Patterson used similar techniques of details, settings and emphasis to adequately involve the readers in the...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

Unique Voice of Sandra Cisneros

the reader what Esperanza is thinking and feeling at the most important moments in her life, but other than that exact moment, the...

Griffins and Carruths Compared

Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader b...

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Immorality

won the Nobel Prize for Literature (The National Steinbeck Center, 2002). John Steinbeck was very talented at creating s...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

An 18th Century Authors' Overview

is just one example, but he is still an example of a writer who characterized a generation. Swifts humor and sarcasm demonstrates ...

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and the Themes of Money and Class

how they were hindered and helped by his educational options. Pip, like Dickens, encounters a great deal of frustration with the e...

Ionesco's The Rhinoceros, Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Politics and Laughter

part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography (as the New York Times described it), The Book of Laughter and Forge...

Journey of Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

father, raised in Hong Kong and working as a journalist in London, Mr. Mo knows the conflicts from experience" (Anonymous Confucia...

Political and Personal Beliefs Reflected in Tillie Olsen's Writing

Indeed, Olsens socialist upbringing and working class background, as well as her experience as a single parent, provides a major s...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the Pride and Prejudice Themes

ClassicNote on Pride and Prejudice a.php?a=n001001182). In this we are given a subtle, yet very powerful, foundation for the unfol...

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 (...

Innocence and Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye

Antolini, a man who is not innocent. In presenting this examination we will illustrate how Holden is innocent in the face of exper...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

Aspects of Doctor Zhivago

a patch in the icy crust on one of the windows. The light seemed to look into the street almost consciously, as if it were watchi...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...

Analysis of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

at Christminster in much the same manner as a knight with the Holy Grail. Hardy comments that Jude did not see that "mediaevalism...

Stories by Virginia Woolf, Their Themes and Symbolism

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...