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Marguerite Duras' Novella The Lover and 'Requited Love'

In five pages this paper discusses the impossible love between an impoverished French girl and an aristocratic Chinese man in Indo...

Damien by Herman Hesse

In four pages Damien is reviewed in a consideration of novel characteristics, meanings, metaphors, structure, character, and theme...

Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse

In seven pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of the novel by Hermann Hesse. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye

In five pages this paper analyzes Georges Bataille's novel with references of L'Erostisme also included. Three sources are cited ...

Bodily Functions and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

a month for the sole purpose of procreation, they are now in a place where its very risky to be seen. But they are there at the C...

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway and the Issues Contained Within

wants nothing more than to earn a decent living to provide for his wife Marie and their three daughters. He transports visitors o...

Adultery in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"other woman" because she wears the "A but the reality is that in this day and age, Hester would be any woman. That she has an aff...

Illusion versus Reality in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In four pages this paper examines the conflict that exists throughout the course of the novel with Romanticism and not romance ult...

La Nouvelle Heloise by Jean Jacques Rousseau

In eight pages this paper discusses Rousseau's novel in terms of society's determination of gender roles. There are no other sour...

Reaction to Germinal by Emile Zola

Rasseneur, a former miner who was fired for participating in a previous strike. He is more of a reformer than Lantier. And Lanti...

Germinal by Emile Zola and Class Consciousness

In six pages this paper examines how class consciousness is developed in this classic novel by Emile Zola. There are no other sou...

Race, Culture, and Social Perspective in The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

"blackness" and the sense that the darker a person is, the less worthy they are of gaining social acceptance. In fact, Pecola is ...

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman

sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time wh...

Critiques of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before" (Twain Chapter I NA). In examining this approach to language, we not...

Significance and Symbolism of the River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts--sometime...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

Journal Project on The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

to his sister, the only one he believes is young and innocent, will give him comfort. When he knows that she will not give him com...

Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

provide Janie with financial security. Many women, less independent than Janie, would suffer and endure. Janie leaves with another...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Pear Tree Symbolism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

observation. The pear tree is a very powerful teacher for Janie. "Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in ...

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, a Critique

This 5 page paper analyzes the themes of sadness, desperation and emotional need that Thomas Hardy explores in his classic novel T...

Evaluation of Greg Bear's Blood Music

The science fiction novel is analyzed. A summary is included. The conclusion of the book is carefully evaluated. This six page pa...

Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

In three pages Americanization is one of the thematic aspects considered in this analysis of Julia Alvarez's novel. There is 1 so...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Western Civilization's Failure in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In 5 pages this paper examines how Western civilization's failure is conveyed by Joseph Conrad by the characterization of Kurtz in...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

Stephen Dedalus's Growth in Ulysses and Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In ten pages these James Joyce novels are analyzed in terms of how Stephen's character evolves. There are 6 sources cited in the ...

The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas, Dreams, and Meaning

In five pages the meaning of dreams and how they deprive the protagonist of free will are considered within the context of Thomas'...

Major Characterizations in Daisy Miller by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the characters of Frederick Winterbourne and Daisy Miller as they are presented in James's novel...