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Author's Word Choices and Altered Impressions of Characters

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

The Shining Film and Perspective

place in the hotel. Before truly examining the narrative content in the film we look at the elements concerning the protagonist....

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and the Character of Janie Crawford

I believe that Hurston was attempting to expose the scope of the racism problem through the character of Janie, as well as the str...

Analyzing Don Fausto Tejada's Journey

wearing halter tops and shorts (40). He nods at them and makes a "clicking sound" with his tongue (40). Clearly, it is a "come on"...

Nihilism in the Character of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

was that the protagonist is not sorry for her illicit relationship with the married man, and in fact seems to have benefited her l...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Characterization of the Lonely Hero in T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Macabea in The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

These innate classifications can represent significant social power, as in the case of beauty, wealth and status, or they can symb...

Portraying the Victim in Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

of their relationships with him. They meet in...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

Tolkein and Fellowship of the Ring

tale is primarily told in a book titled "The Hobbit," wherein he has many adventures and comes into possession of the one ring of ...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

A Character Analysis for Heart of Darkness and Typhoon

(Anonymous Joseph Conrad 47.htm). In the beginning we Marlow as a very energetic and eager young man who wants adventure and excit...

Marquez's No One Writes the Colonel

His wife does not seem to be well and is anxious all the time about what is to become of them. Obstinately refusing to believe tha...

Rudyard Kipling's Language and the Novel Kim

Kiplings earliest works were first poems and ballads. The sense of rhythm, it can be said, is found in the book, Kim. The sentence...

Minor Characters in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

of reference. The priest represents the possibility of attaining the ideal in life and in love, especially as it applies to the r...

Chinua Achebe and Victor Frankenstein

that he has chosen for himself. Yet when he, after months of disgusting, horrifying work, finally brings his creation to life, he ...

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Irony

depicting what he discovered about each of the victims. The first of these characters is the Marquesa, who is the daughter of a we...

Sophocles vs. Jean Anouilh's Character Interpretations of Antigone

actions is shaped by the other characters around her. Creon is of particular importance in shaping the character Antigone in both...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Emotional Maturity and Independence in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

Robert Stone's Dog Soldiers

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of whether or not it should be considered a work of art based upo...

Harvey Fierstein's On Tidy Endings

The bleakness of the apartment also reflects the prospective bleakness of the survivors lives, since both have been left to cope w...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

Daniel Defoe's Protagonist Moll Flanders

where Moll informs workers that she wants to grow up to be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and...

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson and Obsession

the individuals lot in life. On their journey there are numerous arguments for the adoption for rejection of the different...

Representations of Race in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson

was of majestic form and stature... her gestures and movements distinguished by a noble and stately grace... She had an easy, inde...

The Mayor of Casterbridge and Character Destiny

While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child...