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The Critical Reception of A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

the sheriff and the inevitable nightriders. As Gaines unravels the reasons why the old black men, as well as the young white woma...

Reinscribe and Resist in David Walker's Appeal and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

the text of the pamphlet by Sean Wilentz, the chief aim of Walkers Appeal was to inspire American blacks "with a vision of hope an...

Biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Analysis of The Scarlet Letter

the likes of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott, which helped him to compose his next set of short stories entitled Mosses from a...

Literary Examples of Power and Faith in the Catholic Religion

This paper examines how power and faith can be discovered within Catholicism as seen in Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Forbidden Love

In 5 pages this paper examines how forbidden love is represented in these novels. There are 2 sources cited in the bibliography....

Isolation in Jane Eyre and Frankenstein

The theme of isolation as it is featured in these novels by Charlotte Bronte and Mary Shelley are compared and contrasted in nine ...

The Role of Man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

has been much experimentation with creation. Test tube babies somehow evolved into the concept of designer babies and couples tryi...

A Month of Sundays by John Updike, Satire, Sanctimony, and Sin

railed (Barna 324). From the concept of this noted hypocrisy was born The Scarlet Letter, a haunting tale of misplaced faith, sil...

Emma Bovary's Lack of Intellectual Stimulation in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In five pages this paper examines how Emma was motivated by the lack of intellectual stimulation from her marriage to country doct...

Another Ending for The Awakening by Kate Chopin

In 6 pages this paper proposes an alternative ending to this feminist novel in which Edna Pontellier does not commit suicide and i...

Character Analysis of Merle Kinbona in The Chosen Place, The Timeless People by Paule Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses how the protagonist of Paule Marshall's novel reveals to the oppressed people of a fictitious C...

Declining Values in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In five pages this paper discusses how the novel portrays a post First World War I America and declining values. There are no oth...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Social and Political Theory

In 9 pages this paper discusses Achebe's novel as it relates to African social and political theory considered in The Dual Mandate...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez and the Themes of Language and Love

In 5 pages the importance of the duality of love and language themes to the immigrants and to the novel as a whole is examined. T...

Romanticism and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

balconies of great chateaux where leisure is abundant, from a boudoir curtained in silk, thick carpeted, from flowering planters, ...

House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Intertextuality

In five pages this report analyzes this brief novel in terms of its intertextuality. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Utopia or Feminism in 'Herland' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages this report discusses Gilman's 1915 novel in terms of tis feminist aspects and the situations that either suppressed...

Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

In five pages this novel and the humanity it depicts within are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

In six pages this paper considers the Great Terror of 1930s Russia within the context of the novel and discusses how Stalin's purg...

Analysis of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

personal will can supersede ones background. There are several schools of psychology, each attributing different elements to the ...

Motivation and 'Self Reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The ways in which 'Self Reliance' assists in understanding Huck's motivation in Mark Twain's novel are considered in this paper co...

Critical Review of Monsieur Hire

relax and view the dance of the characters without thinking. In some way, a film allows the audience less freedom but the viewer i...

Civilizing the Characters of Galadriel in The Great Gilly Hopkins and Mary in The Secret Garden

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares how throughout the course of each novel these characters become more socialized a...

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Protagonist Saintliness

In 5 pages the saintly protagonists Christian and Oliver and their missions are discussed in a comparative analysis of these novel...

Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch and Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In five pages this report compares Donna Deitch's 1985 film to Jane Rule's 1964 novel. There are no secondary sources listed....

Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences between Mustapha Sa'eed and the narrator in Tayeb...

Romance and Epic Characteristics

individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and Conflicting Viewpoints

In five pages this paper discusses the conflicting views presented in this novel by Mark Twain and what they mean. There are no o...

Cinematic Version of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Problems Faced by Director Stanley Kubrick

In eight pages this paper discusses the problems filmmaker Stanley Kubrick struggled with while making his big screen adaptation o...