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Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines the novel's primary characters and analyzes them philosophically and morally in regards to good a...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Slavery Commentary on Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

In seven pages the novel's slavery commentary is examined. There are five other sources cited in the bibliography....

Twentieth Century Latin America Modernization and the Novel Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon

In four pages this paper examines how this novel's characterizations reflect the impact of modernization in the Latin America of t...

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...

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...

Biographical Profile of Zossimov in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Doestoyevsky

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

Chapter Eight of Bleak House by Charles Dickens

funds have been consumed by legal fees. Esther also learns that Tom Jarndyce, the former owner of Bleak House, after coping with t...

Gender Satire of Gerd Brantenberg's Egalia's Daughters

theme that is carried throughout the book--namely, that a rationalization for patriarchy sounds absurd when reversed. Little girl...

Butler & Eliot

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

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...

Andrew Holleran/Grief

describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...

Marriages: Their Eyes Were Watching God

want him to do all de wantin" (Hurston 192). Her grandmother tells her something that seems specific to all arranged marriages whe...

Themes in "Things Fall Apart"

Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Reading, and Writing that Lasts

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Ondaatje/Anil’s Ghost

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

“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...

Review of John Toole's Novel

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...

Moby-Dick, Discussion of Quotes from the Novel

This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...

J.M. Coetzee/Disgrace

This essay focuses on the character of Lucy Lurie in J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace. Three pages in length, only the novel is cite...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Resurrection

to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...

Dystopian Future of Technology

This 5 page paper gives an overview of how the future may be influenced by technology. This paper includes a reflection of the nov...

The Little Horse That Could

entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...

Unsable Personality in Orphan Pamuk’s the White Castle

retrospective, written as a memory of event that had occurred earlier, with the narrator ever revealing his own name or identity, ...

Role of Candy in Mice and Men

to these men, as this would not only offer them security, but would allow them to establish relational bonds with their co-workers...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In ten pages this research paper focuses on the novel's protagonist Okonkwo and discusses how he reflects his ideal society's trad...

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's protagonist Patrick Lewis in a consideration of the alien or outsider status assign...