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Things Fall Apart and the Death of a Hero

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

Society's Evils in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

Symbolism of Darkness and Light in East of Eden by John Steinbeck

presenting us with a violent and angry man who cannot be all good because he cannot see truth nor can he forgive. The father pr...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid and Cultural Differences

and that ... I was reminded of how uncomfortable new can make you feel" (Kincaid PG). SURPRISING EMOTIONS Lucy thought she was ...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Theme of Pride

1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...

Power and Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

telling, the generality of it is that in the midst of brutality, magic still exists and in the never-ending search for power -- pe...

Comparing Charles Dickens' Hard Times and Voltaire's Candide

was, historically speaking, the calm before the storm, and Voltaire seemed to sense what was coming. He was often entertaining ro...

Free Will versus Fate in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

heroine in that, even as a child, she rejected the concept of defect within herself. Victorians saw feminine defect, i.e. traditio...

Women's Literature Contributions of Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street

Street. In this classic work, Cisnero embraces and illuminates those feelings that she felt as a child growing up, those feelings ...

Murders in Beloved and Sula by Toni Morrison

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these novels by Toni Morrison in terms of how each feature murders. There are no ...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

The Dialect Forms in 'Huckleberry Finn'

of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy...

Labor Relations and Industrialization in North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

In five pages this paper examines the novel by Elizabeth Gaskell and also includes the labor theories of Karl Marx. Two sources a...

'Maggie A Girl From the Street' and 'Native Son'

This 8 page essay compares and contrasts Maggie in Stephen Crane's novel with Richard Wright's protagonist of Bigger. There are a...

Comparison Between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Jacobs

Southern slave law and of the law itself" (Accomando 229, 1998). By writing her narrative, Jacobs was vocalizing for all others w...

Typee by Herman Melville and the Themes of Savagery and Civilization

Melville sees civilisation as exemplified by whites, but this is a civilisation which, right at the start of the novel, he rejects...

Literary Works and Socioeconomics

Sonnys Blues, Sonny is the protagonist who is a recovering drug addict. He tries to begin a new life with the help of his brother,...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Minor Characters' Significance

this unusual technique sets up interesting prospects for the reader. The experience of Nurse Ratched, for example, gives one a sen...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London and Free Will

are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...

Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

precision of mathematics and the natural sciences to answer questions. Indeed, the members of this philosophical movement simply ...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Editor's Review of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

form of Yolanda. There is an understanding of the problems as well as a wondering at why these events have hit the family, with so...

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne and its Historical Context

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

An Analysis Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

impotent as the result of a war injury; Lady Brett Ashley, Jakes former Army nurse and ex-lover, who had, after the breakup, taken...

The House on the Lagoon by Ferre from a Racial Perspective

In five pages this paper discusses the novel in terms of how narrators Quintin and Isabel reflect racial prejudices and difference...

Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh

soldiers virtually disappear. During World War I, German and Allied soldiers both endured the horrors of trench warfare on oppo...