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"The Great Gatsby" and the Pursuit of Hollow Dreams

value into ultimately empty goals; this is indicated by the comparison of Gatsbys quest for Daisy with the "American dream" itself...

"Huckleberry Finn" and the Rebuke of Racism

that Twain struggled with "how to reconcile the felt memory of boyhood with the cruel implications of the social system within whi...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi and Childhood

every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to w...

Changes in the Relationship of the Atlantic World and Western Europe in Robinson Crusoe

on a Eurocentric tone. At the same time, it seems that the protagonist is his own and has distanced himself from the church and al...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

of Jake finding purpose and meaning in life through a love relationship, as Brett makes it clear that she is unwilling to renounce...

Question on Grapes of Wrath

happy at the camp, the family suffers when the men cannot find work. Ma Joad insists that they move on when money and food are alm...

Gender Narrative in "Midnight's Children"

Consider: "So gradually Doctor Aziz came to have a picture of Naseem in his mind, a badly fitting collage of her severally inspect...

Twain/Cruelty in Huckleberry Finn

A 12 page research paper on Mark Twain's classic novel Huck Finn. This paper includes a 9 page essay, an annotated bibliography an...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Morality in The Scarlet Letter

sin and transgression. For example, this discussion could bring out the ways in which both Hester and her daughter Pearl are socia...

Relationship of Structure and Theme in Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

the subcontinent ("Midnights Children"). Because the history of India is so rich and varied, the novel is multi-layered and comple...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

Nabokov & Use of Language

that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

“Jane Eyre” and “Wide Sargasso Sea”: Rebellion Against Patriarchy

is "large and stout for his age," meaning of course that hes much larger than the girl (Bront?, 2007). He is a glutton as well and...

Perks of Being a Wallflower/Should It Be Banned?

this be decided by "Teachers? Librarians? Parents? The government?" (Seufert 14). If any of these agencies act in a blanket manner...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

The Message in Slaughterhouse-Five

him otherwise it would seem as he is tossed from one time period to another, from one culture to another, even being abducted by a...

Wuthering Heights: Civilization and Anarchy

man of the house. Catherines father took Heathcliff in and ultimately one could argue he had lofty ideals, ideals that were closer...

Coupland’s Generation X

on any common basis and if anyone does they are clearly self involved people who are absorbed with their own intelligence, importa...

Written on the Body, The Color Purple

being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...

Kurt Eichenwald/The Informant

than one hundred participants," and involved examination of thousands of documents (Eichenwald 569). However, in other ways, it i...

Dreams and Authority in “The Great Gatsby”

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Sexuality in the Work of Crane and Wharton

In the case of Charity she is prone to lying in the fields and feel her sexuality become alive, as she feels the earth...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Racism

Congo are largely recorded in Heart of Darkness, his most famous, finest and most enigmatic story, the title of which signifies no...

Progress of the West in Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown

educated in the finest British schools. With no knowledge of any Indian tongue, Kumar became completely an upper-class Britain, in...

Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

concerned with Braithwaite than Flaubert. As the narrative unfolds, Braithwaite shares with the reader his convictions on everythi...