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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Uses of Black and White

come to it, sure enough. The people had vanished. (Conrad Part I). This is a premonition of sorts about what he will eventually fi...

The Character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and in Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

Enlightenment Attack of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

frightening lack of individuality. This is also exemplified in society today. Was he correct? Is the world turning the people into...

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander Smith and Principles of Ethics

(p. 180). The message here is that the people of Botswana find being with people and interacting with them to be the natura...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the story opens, Tom is owned by Arthur Shelby but as the story unfolds, he is sold, where he befriends a white woman, even saving...

The Theme of Self-Reliance is found in Emma, Huck Finn and My Name is Asher Lev

swayed by the setting to which he is born. In fact, it seems that Emma and Huck learn those lessons too. The self-reliance they ea...

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

Hawk by William Wallis

only three and doctors are only able to save one eye. He spends months in the hospital, which proves to be a grueling experience t...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

work around the reality of war, both writing of war and the times after a way. He was a drinker, a fisherman, an adventurer and a ...

Richard Wright and Lorraine Hansberry's Styles of Writing

In six pages this essay compares and contrasts the styles of writing featured in Native Son, a novel by Richard Wright, and A Rais...

Thematic Comparison of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand

reminded it is at the bottom. Yet, despite this acute awareness, he seizes whatever opportunity he can to break free "of these st...

Spirituality and Religion in Dona Perfecta by Benito Perez Galdos

are far superior to all others. Reprogramming such ingrained concepts was not something that would ever be carried through in any...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

The Red Badge of Courage Aspects

easy. She tells him "Watch out, and be a good boy," and he leaves. But he turns back at the gate to see her kneeling "among the po...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki

named "Geek" explains, "Its like a death gene, sir. A self-destruct mechanism. They splice it into the DNA of a plant and trigger ...

A Farewell to Arms and Ernest Hemingway's Uses of Imagery

of fruit trees and beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare. There was fighting in the mountains" (Hemingway 3). The t...

The Awakening by Kate Chopin, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, and the Theme of Love

with the arrival of Stellas sister, Blanche, a delusional middle-aged woman that despite pious airs is the female equivalent of St...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera and the Value of Marriage

marriage is highlighted in the intriguing book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez entitled Love in the Time of Cholera. Love in the Time o...

Racism in The House Behind the Cedars by Chesnutt

however, they - themselves - were catalysts for racism by virtue of how they so eagerly left behind a big part of their heritage i...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Autobiographical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...

Self Awareness and Environment in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...

The Villa San Girolamo Setting of The English Patient

true despite the fact that it has been hurt by war. It stands. The people are in some way in a sense of a denial. The author goe...

"Kokoro" by Natsume Soseki

strange character who is the protagonist of the book. The narrator first sees the man he calls Sensei at the seashore in the compa...

Scarlet Letter/Sin of A Guilty Heart

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

Spain: “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway

people. In the United States there is no such thing as a real bullfight, or the bull runs that take place in Spain. It seems, when...