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Importance of Supporting Characters in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

In six pages this paper examines why the supporting characters in these novels are important. There is 1 source cited in the bibl...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

Evaluation of Greg Bear's Blood Music

The science fiction novel is analyzed. A summary is included. The conclusion of the book is carefully evaluated. This six page pa...

Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

In three pages Americanization is one of the thematic aspects considered in this analysis of Julia Alvarez's novel. There is 1 so...

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

last comment is an example of Brookners sense of humor, which one can presume is the main appeal of the book, if it coincides with...

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

is blunt when she explains to Martin why their marriage has failed: "Its partly my being so much older and being a sort of mother...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan

China. In the novel, the local peasant farmers have been ordered by the country officials to plan only one crop?garlic. Y...

Joseph Heller's Catch 22

In five pages the ways in which death is portrayed in Heller's novel are examined in hopes of determining the identity of 'the ene...

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

seen that Gide identifies this novel as a psychological parable. By dramatizing the evil that lurks within Roberts psyche, Hogg of...

Overview of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

In five pages this paper considers contemporary cloning within the context of the Gothic novel by Mary Shelley. Three sources are...

Sexism and Materialism in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

These novels are compared in terms of the social materialism and sexism each depicts in a paper consisting of 5 pages. There are ...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...

Technology Criticized in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In six pages this paper examines how industrialization and technology are assailed by Mark Twain in this novel. Six sources are c...

Humanity's Virtue in The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein

In five pages this paper examines this novel within the context of humanity's virtue as it emerges from conflicts of freedom v. co...

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, Dreams, and Meaning

In five pages the meaning of dreams and how they deprive the protagonist of free will are considered within the context of Thomas'...

Major Characterizations in Daisy Miller by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the characters of Frederick Winterbourne and Daisy Miller as they are presented in James's novel...

Elizabeth's Change About Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages the pivotal Chapter 43 in Austen's novel in which Darcy's kindness towards the poor and his servants is revealed to ...

Moral Liability and Race in Benito Cereno by Herman Melville

In one page this essay discusses how this novel could be interpretated as a story involving moral liability that results from raci...

Fascism and Humanism in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In nine pages this paper examines how these two opposing elements appear in this modernist novel by James Joyce. There are 10 sou...

No Greater Love by Danielle Steel

In five pages the author's narrative style is examined in this novel review. There are no other sources listed....

Ambiguity in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

time: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Written in during the last part of his life, Stevensons story was an immediate success. It ...

Weakness of Character in The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

In three pages character weakness as it results in disaster is examined within the context of the novel by Dostoevsky. There are ...

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Relationships

This paper consists of five pages and considers the difficult relationships with men and what they represent in the lone novel by ...

Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Journal Observations

In eight pages this journal observation critiques and evaluates this novel by Betty Smith in a consideration of setting, plot, ton...

Message of Billy Budd by Herman Melville

composition. Among her miscellaneous multitude, the Indomitable mustered several individuals who, however inferior in grade, were...

Historical Inhumanity in Night by Elie Wiesel and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this comparative novel analysis reveals how man has historically exhibited inhumanity toward his fellow man. Two so...

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, a Critique

This 5 page paper analyzes the themes of sadness, desperation and emotional need that Thomas Hardy explores in his classic novel T...

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

In six pages this essay analyzes Turgenev's novel in terms of how the nihilistic and pastoral is contrasted with characterization ...

Guilt and Sin in The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In 8 pages this paper discusses how guilt and sin are represented in these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne. There are 5 sources cit...