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The English Patient/Theme of Nationalism

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

“Frankenstein” and the Idea of Responsibility for One’s Actions

abrogated his personal responsibility on two levels. First, he has given up his responsibility to educate, nurture and care for th...

“Up the Down Staircase”: An American Classic

or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...

“Martin Eden” by Jack London

the table that are unfamiliar to him, and he begins reading the poetry of Swinburne, "forgetful of where he was, his face glowing"...

Ancient Greek Society and Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermoplyae

the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...

Toni Morrison’s Sula: Moral Ambiguity

to the community, a clear case of moral ambiguity wherein Sula and her family felt they had a right and that their behavior was, o...

Symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

were signified by it" (1323). He then goes into great narrative detail to describe the letter to emphasize its significance: "The...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...

Sula by Toni Morrison and the Shadrack Character

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which Shadrack is affected by patriarchal and racial issues throughout the course ...

Virtue and Self-Discipline in Toni Morrison's Sula

This 5 page paper explores the concepts of virtue and self-discipline and how self-discipline applies to virtue in Toni Morrison's...

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

Myth in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solomon and argues that it can be seen as a modern day myth in which a ma...

Compare and Contrast Two Characters in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Milkman Dead and his father Macon in Toni Morrison's novel Song of Solo...

Toni Morrison’s Sula

It is also interesting to note that when they grow, and separate, they take on the roles of their mothers: "Nel struggles to a con...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Pleasantville and The Giver

are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...

Madame Bovary as Naturalism

carried in the pockets of her apron...They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, pos...

Summary of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus

The author totally immerses herself in the tragic Venus many hardships, imagining what she saw, felt, and experienced during her s...

Steppenwolf and Personalities

and identities within himself. But, he fails miserably at truly becoming more than he is and this is a problem. As noted, his prob...

Renault: "The Persian Boy"

man with a dreadful face. Its center was red and empty; blood streamed from it into his mouth and beard ... both shoulders dripped...

An Analysis of “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

age: "To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and th...

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

time which has caused him to think of himself as incredibly special: "In this world John, who was, his father said, ugly, who was ...

Five Market Structure Examples Featured in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath:

these farmers in the characterization of a single family, the Joads. From what was left of their Oklahoma homestead to their jour...

A View of Lucy Honeychurch in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View

how socially shocking they might be. Lucys mother always has the best intentions and willing to share openly her thoughts and fe...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

Jane's Fairytale Sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

Class and Money in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

down a rigid standard of conduct and, even more important, appearances -- and individuals who for whatever reason flaunted a devia...

The Impact of Nineteenth-Century Science on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses how various scientific advances during the 1800's influenced Shelley's novel. This ten page paper has five s...

Society's Influences in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper addresses how various aspects of society during Shelley's life influence the novel. This six page paper has five sourc...