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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

In five pages Danticat's novel about the coming of age of a young Haitian girl is summarized and analyzed. Three sources are cite...

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....

Female Characterizations in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This paper examines the characterizations of Fernanda, Pilar, and Ursula in this novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. There are no ot...

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Symbolism

In six pages this paper examines the importance of imagery and symbolism in Hurston's 1937 classic novel. Six sources are cited i...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

In five pages Win Hancock is analyzed in a discussion of the historical novel Killer Angels. One source is listed in the bibliogr...

Themes in the Works of Fyodor Doestovsky

In six pages this essay compares the characterizations in Dostoevsky's novels The Brothers Karamazov, Possessed, The Idiot, and Cr...

Individuality in Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Doestoevsky

In six pages this novel is analyzed in terms of the conflict between conformity and universality and examines how individuality an...

Social Class in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In six pages this paper examines the theme of social class within the context of Flaubert's novel and the various aspects that def...

Damien by Herman Hesse

In four pages Damien is reviewed in a consideration of novel characteristics, meanings, metaphors, structure, character, and theme...

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

In seven pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of the novel by Hermann Hesse. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

In a paper consisting of five pages the therapeutic impact of this novel is considered within the context of adolescents that may ...

Nabokov's Lolita, Women's Role, and Pedophilia

In ten pages this paper discusses this infamous novel in terms of how the social roles of women and pedophilia issues are intertwi...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

China's Cultural Revolution in Red China Blues by Jan Wong and 1984 by George Orwell

In five pages this paper discusses how Orwell predicted the Cultural Revolution of China in his 1948 novel as described in Wong's ...

Fiction and Film in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

In a paper consisting of six pages Austen's novel and the film adaptation are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In seven pages the transformation of Pip throughout the course of the novel is chronicled. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

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...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

Women's Sexuality Changes in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

In five pages this paper discusses how women's sexuality is represented in this nineteenth century novel and then contrasts it to ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and Symbolism

In five pages the novel is examined in an overview with symbolism the primary analytical focus. There are no other sources cited....

Philosophical and Social Contexts of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

themselves against mans authority. It is important for the student to consider the fact that while one might understand the motiv...

Female Protagonists in God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousbane

In five pages this novel is examined in an overview that focuses upon the women's roles in the Senegal railway workers strike as w...

Sexuality in Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Roxana herself has done," presenting us with a story that is informing the reader about realities as they concern many conditions,...

Religion in Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

In five pages this paper examines how religion is represented in this novel by James Joyce. There are no other sources listed....

Irish Vision in Ulysses and Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce

In twelve pages the 'Irishness' of these novels are discussed. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliography....

Home Quest in Ulysses by James Joyce

feminist critics charge that this work frames women in houses that the men in the story avoid. "Throughout Ulysses women often rem...

Art for the Sake of Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of community theaters and high-school drama clubs). On the complete opposite end of the spectrum from his drawing-room comedies, h...