YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The American Novel
Essays 1381 - 1410
up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...
complex, contradictory, evasive, independent and liquid modernity . . . (that) . . . ushers in the Jazz Age" (Basu 93). The Jazz A...
trouble from the start. Upon seeing another ship which he believes is in trouble, he decides he must go and offer his help. Inst...
the father. Fieldings opposition to arranged marriages is largely dramatized through Sophias behavior in categorically refusing ...
they were dead, rather than face a fate similar to hers. She is successful in killing only one, her infant Beloved. "Sethes murder...
"Dragon Seed" details the circumstances surrounding Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during World War II as they...
her plainness (women were suppose to be ornamental), Janes independence of will and obvious intellect win her not only the love of...
Eliza was unable to decide between her two suitors, the attractive but...
set in other nations they affect us, the United States, as well. Admiral Jack Shanahan has stated that "American Security is depe...
the end. What the story explains is that when a man leaves his community and the community changes while the man does not, the two...
allied war effort. Young men were led to believe that the military experience would somehow be ennobling, a glorious affair that, ...
authors practically since the beginning of the written word. These depictions have changed radically over time, however, in respo...
the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...
and jockey, till his fine reputation for strength and good character finds him at age seventeen working as a footman to Lady Booby...
forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...
bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls pride to her aid; desires her attendant to deck her in her brightest jewels and richest ...
a result Europe was not loner unified to the degree that had existed for almost one-thousand years. While Martin Luther would ina...
of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...
section, the author paints a tragic portrait of inner city life that is characterized by violence, cruelty and desperation. For ex...
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...
kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...
monster could be seen as a perversion of an epic hero, given his greater than human abilities and stature" (Anonymous Synopsis of ...
men who have affairs gain the tacit approval of their peers, whereas women are condemned. As Deter (2002) points out, Mr Beauforts...
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 ...
an underlying hierarchy of power, as well, that transcends through the populace itself, creating other levels of domination among ...
heard that Carl Jr. was going to reacquire his familys farm, he went to Carl Jr. to try to negotiate for the purchase of he seven ...
men have very similar qualities to one another and the women also share similar features but may be split between two prototypes a...
or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...
portray this relationship as one built upon and surviving from an incongruous association perpetuated by greed and power. The stu...
they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...