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Critique of The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In six pages this essay offers a critique of the once scandalous novel of the late nineteenth century. Five sources are cited in ...

Hemingway's Loneliness in For Whom the Bell Tolls

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the character's loneliness and how they mirror the author's own. Five sources ar...

Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages the protagonist and narrator of Fitzgerald's 1925 classic novel is presented in this character sketch. One source i...

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Disposable Morality

In nine pages this paper examines Dick Diver's ethical downfall and the collapse of value systems within the context of the novel....

Modernism Expressed in 'The Great Gatsby'

Passages from F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel are featured in this paper consisting of 5 pages that reveals the destructive as...

Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald

In seven pages Tender is the Night is considered within the context of the protagonist Dick Diver and his influence upon the other...

Settings in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In three pages the ways in which Fitzgerald employs settings and how they influence characterizations and affect the overall novel...

Materialism in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

suitors. Interestingly enough, this particular strategy has not altered since the 1920s. Daisy is about money and the corruption...

Symbolism in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In ten pages this paper examines the powerful symbolism within Melville's novel especially as it pertains to the whale's significa...

Pip Characterization in Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In eight pages this paper presents a character analysis of Pip and his racial significance especially given the practice of slaver...

Sin in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Herman Melville's Pierre

that part covered). Even in her disconcerted and distracted mental state after the birth of her child, Charlotte is able to pray f...

Teaching The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This paper supports the high school curriculum addition of this controversial 1885 novel by Mark Twain. One source is cited in th...

Mark Twain's Life and Writings

In seven pages this paper discusses how the author's persona changes from his short stories such as 'The Gilded Age' and 'Innocent...

Mark Twain and Morality

(Roth, 682). As in its sequel, Huckleberry Finn, the boys frequently have more innate wisdom in their ingenuousness than the adult...

Gothic Characteristics of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...

Realist Criticism of The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In seven pages this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered in terms of the 19th century Realist literary criticism it generate...

Moral Corruption and Family Deterioration in the Works of William Faulkner and Nathaniel Hawthorne

In eleven pages this paper presents a thematic comparison of the novels by Faulkner and Hawthorne and the common threads of family...

Life and Writings of William Faulkner

This paper consists of six pages examines William Faulkner's life and the themes of life and death that abound in his novel The So...

Mississippi's Ku Klux Klan Control and The Chamber by John Grisham

In eight pages Grisham's novel is examined within the contrast of the role played by the KKK in Mississippi between the years 1967...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

upon as an acceptable activity. While they are not exactly condoned within todays society, there has been a remarkable change in ...

Feminist Perspectives on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In fifteen pages this paper considers how women were treated in this famous novel as well as their portrayal in the short stories ...

Romanticism in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In five pages this paper analyzes the novel in terms of Hawthorne's use of Romanticism. There are no other sources listed....

Isolation and Sin in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In three pages this essay analyzes the novel in terms of its representation of such themes as isolation, rebellion, and sin. Ther...

Symbolism and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In four pages this paper examines the importance of symbolism in this novel with the emphasis being upon the 'scarlet letter A' re...

Guterson, Wharton, Grisham, and Verisimilitude

because he sounds like a man who knows what hes talking about. That initial trust having been established, we now feel that we can...

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah O. Jewett

In five pages this paper discusses why contemporary criticism of this 19th century novel often falls short. Six sources are cited...

Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and Other Works of Literature

the government offices depicted in Elena Poniatowska?s The Night Visitor. In Poniatowska?s story as well, the author is striving f...

The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; Cane; and Heremakhonon

In four pages these novels by Marshal, Toomer, and Conde are contrasted and compared in terms of narrative and thematic styles. T...

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Minerva and nearly every other school child and household in the country are taught to revere Trujillo. Even with his well-known ...

Richard and His Parents in Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal

In five pages this paper analyzes the child and parent relationships featured in this novel by Jose Antonio Villarreal in terms of...