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Intention of Authors and its Importance

In ten pages author intent is the focus of this analysis of the Buena Vista Social Club film and the novels The Adventures of Huck...

Canon of The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages the Hemingway canon as represented by this brief novel in terms of its content and style is discussed. Four sources...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease

In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...

Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

In five pages this 1985 debut novel by Jeanette Winterson is examined with a synopsis and consideration of its critical reception....

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...

Comparative Romantic Analysis of Young Werther and Emma Bovary

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the protagonists of Werther and Emma Bovary in the Romantic novels Johann Wolfgang...

Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus

in Charicleia, who is a long-lost princess of an Ethiopian queen, even though she appears to be white. Heliodorus relates that her...

Social Implications of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

An analysis of the social implications of the novel and film versions of Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit are e...

Huckleberry Finn Critically Analyzed

began disappearing from school library bookshelves, denying students the right to draw their own conclusions. The Adventures of H...

Charles Dickens and Feminism

In 5 pages this paper argues that Charles Dickens is not a feminist despite his portrayal of women in socially oppressive situatio...

Influence of Politics on the Characters in The Marrow of Tradition and Their Eyes Were Watching God

In five pages this paper discusses the political disadvantages experienced by Dr. William Miller and Janie Crawford in the novels ...

Arna Bontemps' Black Thunder and the Richmond Slave Revolt of 1800

In eleven pages the differences between Bontemps' novel and other historical accounts of this slave revolt are examined. Six sour...

Clint Eastwood's Film Unforgiven and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote Compared

In three pages this film and novel are compared in terms of the sidekick's stature by comparing Ned Logan and the Schofield Kid wi...

The Works of Lois Lowry

these memories will be. He learns that the memories are of a different time, when people loved and laughed and suffered, something...

Meeting the Protagonists

main point of the journeys) can be summarized as follows: Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim, an escaped slave, start down the Mi...

The Warnings of “Fahrenheit 451”

Bradbury insists that its not. Instead, he sees television as the thing that will eventually kill books, and that is what hes warn...

Considering “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”

is very short, "sexuality seems still to be a strongbox hiding the mystery of a womans I" (Kundera 200). So, because he is truly f...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Analysis of Catch 22

that specified that a concern for ones own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rationa...

Foucault and Orwell

atmosphere of oppression and dread that is remarkable in literature. But 1984 seems to go beyond the panopticon, which seems almos...

Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, Deceptions

to investigate if the residents of a bioship are being brainwashed. (The term "padawan" is the Jedi term for "apprentice.") Obi-Wa...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

How Culture and Religion Shape Each Other

The pot fell and broke in the sand. He heard Ikemefuna cry, My father, they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Narrative in Literature and Film: Frankenstein vs. Frankenstein

overall philosophical tone of the work. Whatever the reasons, the James Whale 1931 film is meant to frighten audiences, and it wor...

Virginia Woolf: “Orlando”

as much more fluid and changeable than most people can accept or are comfortable with. The passage under consideration begins wit...

Brave New World as a Blueprint for America’s Future

Social stability, in Huxleys nightmare vision, depends on making "[S]tandard men and women; in uniform batches" (Huxley). It turns...