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A Feminist Reading of Dorothy Allison's, Bastard Out of Carolina

father, for she is dependent upon him economically, and for whatever social status she hopes to realistically acquire. In his lit...

'Female Monster' in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

the position and the importance of the position, played by the female monster. In the main character, Victor Frankenstein, we a...

Overview of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Version of The Phantom of the Opera

transferred to Broadway in 1988 with Crawford and Brightman repeating their roles. The show was a resounding success and gave Andr...

Racial Issues and Slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

(Dukes 24). Some have said that the meeting, and the book, had influenced Lincoln in his making his Gettysburg address (24). Indee...

Character Study of Toni Morrison's Beloved

treated like a horse, complete with a bit in his mouth. Sethe managed to escape. In fact, because she was very pregnant and had b...

Andrea in Carmen Laforet's Nada

and overcome her family and poverty. Andrea is in search of self definition at this point, though she is not consciously aware of ...

Beloved by Toni Morrison and Protagonist Symbolism

survivor of a slave ship, which crossed the water. With this crossing of the water, vast numbers of people had their way of life c...

Social Mobility and Death in Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

The name Thaw for instance, in this work, can be indicative of the fact that his character is in a state of flux at times. One can...

E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime

two of his real-life characters, Evelyn Nesbit, the celebrated beauty, who once met Emma Goldman, the revolutionary, who informed ...

Comparative Analysis of Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the Portrayals of Violence

in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...

Book and Television Production of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

In three pages this paper discusses the reception of the novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson in comparison ...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Airframe by Michael Crichton

The tape shows passengers being toss around like rag dolls. With such a profound visual, Malone figures she no longer pay attentio...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Postcolonial Perspective

mans. He is unable to adjust to this changing social, political and legal climate, effectively rendering him weak to the oppressi...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Well and Relationships Between Mothers and Daughters

two "get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a tap-dancing child abuser" (Divine Secrets of t...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Fried Green Tomatoes Novel and Film Comparison

tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Revenge

monster and the monster does as he promised, killing Victors new wife. "Victors ignorance towards his creation, leads to the monst...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Synopsis of Charles Dickens' Hard Times

of money. Gradgrind is mortified, his familys reputation is destroyed and he realizes (though it has come at great cost) that his ...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and a Literary Criticism of a Particular Passage

to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...

Pranks of Tom Sawyer at the End of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hucks scheme as being "too blame simple" (323). Instead, he proposes the lengthy chore of digging Jim out, which will take about ...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...