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Theme of Vengeance The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

In seven pages the thematic representation of violence in these literary works is contrasted and compared. There is 1 source cite...

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...

Death Confrontation in Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer

father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...

The Character of Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina

enjoys with any other friends and social acquaintances. Yet in virtually every social circumstance, Vronsky is there. He begins ...

Family in Anna Karenina

The sociocultural values represented by the family unit are the focus of this analysis of Anna Karenina....

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

An Analysis of the Opening Passage of Anna Karenina

given notice (Tolstoy 1). As this illustrates, this opening passage accomplishes several purposes. It immediately announces the ...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Character Comparison of Levin and Anna

In six pages Konstantin 'Kostya' and Anna Levin as featured in Anna Karenina are contrasted and compared in terms of their moral p...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, One of the World's Great Novels

The choices which Anna and Vronsky make are disastrous for both. Through these choices, however, Anna will come to recognize the ...

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Interpretation of a Specific Passage

Levin fears the worst, but both Kitty and their son are safe. At that moment, Levin undergoes an epiphany of understanding and rea...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

"The House of the Spirits": Magical Realism and the Feminist Perspective

a clairvoyant young woman who ends up marrying a man named Esteban Trueba, an industrialist with a penchant for mistreating the pe...

Considering What Makes a Classic with Virgil, Tolstoy, and Homer

and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...

Poverty Perspectives of House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

tragic death of her sister Rosa, who was Estebans fiance. Clara does not love Esteban , but her psychic ability leads her to belie...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

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....

House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

In five pages the characters of Uncle Marcos and Nicolas are contrasted and compared in terms of similarities in relationships, in...

Children in House of Spirits by Isabel Allende II

In six pages this essay discusses children both legitimate as well as illegitimate as represented in the novel according to Esteba...

Fantasy and History in The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende III

In five pages this essay discusses how fantasy and history are represented in Isabel Allende's classic novel. There are no other ...

Esteban in House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

unstable sister, Claras calm acceptance of all sort of psychic phenomenon as well as his countrys political passage from the rule ...

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Their Autobiographical Elements

at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...

Levin's View of the Future in Anna Karenina

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

Novels Featuring Russian Society and Culture

story we have "Yevgeny Vassilyitch Bazarov, a nihilistic young medical school graduate and Arkadys closest friend. Arrogant and ru...

Women's Roles in 6 Great Works of Literature

In ten pages this paper examines how women's societal roles are represented in Plato's The Apology, Dante's 'The Inferno,' William...

Leo Tolstoy’s Alyosha the Pot

is always used and told what to do with no credit to his character. No one shows him kindness and yet Alyosha is still a good natu...

Isabelle Allende's House of Spirits and the 1993 Film Version

fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...

Isabelle Allende's The House of the Spirits and the Character of Clara

relatively quiet, yet ominous woman. We note that she is clearly a very "mysterious person, which attracts Esteban to her and w...

Heroines in Literature and How They Have Evolved

than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...

Loneliness and the Works of Isabel Allende

In ten pages this paper discusses how love is invariably accompanied by loneliness in Chilean author Isabel Allende's writings. E...