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Umuofia clan, and that Okonkwo has met those criteria. This is important later on, when Okonkwo commits a dreadful crime that gets...
describes how he flew north, in shock, after his mother died, describing how he traveled "toward what I thought of her death as i...
that fit with their role within the novels "deck." Martha Dreyer, Nabokovs "Queen," is a calculating woman with sharp intelligence...
of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their...
nature of the work, at one point in the novel the narrator states how, "That blizzard knocked many a man out, for the crowd outsid...
and the public. Party slogans exemplify doublethink, as they proclaim that war is really peace, freedom is really slavery, etc. Wh...
of "flashes of purple dye" and the skeins of purple yarn that this produced (Jennings 524). The Aztec themselves were conqueror...
pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...
In this novel it seems that the people with the power, the government, or later the Party, were those with the wealth and design. ...
In a report consisting of twelve pages the setting of Christie's fiction and the portrayal of families remarkably similar to those...
An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...
In five pages this paper argues in support of the inevitability of the novel's conclusion because of the emphasis on Maggie and To...
In six pages this paper examines these novels' male protagonists and their ability to accept the brutality of life. There are no ...
In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...
Esperanza. Her family cannot afford to buy a home, so they are forced to live in a dilapidated and overcrowded tenement on Chicag...
- Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. Even his name, which sounds like a derivative of "grindstone," has significance. Gradgrind was not only t...
This 5 page paper analyzes the first chapter of Song of Solomon, a novel by Toni Morrison. The writer suggests that in this openin...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
of Victorian societys patriarchal structure. In Emma, she constructed her characters in such a way that they could speak for her,...
Buck is just an animal, but to many people, animals-and particularly dogs-are very smart and have intense feelings. Buck seems to ...
some sense out of her life. There is also the close, intimate relationship that she has with her younger sister, Nettie. T...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the novel by John Toole called A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes an examination ...
This essay presents four quotes taken from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville. The writer discusses the meaning of each quote in relatio...
for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...
to than I have ever known" (Dickens 351). V. Conclusion 1. Sums up prevalence of the theme of resurrection and its importance to ...
This 5 page paper gives an overview of how the future may be influenced by technology. This paper includes a reflection of the nov...
However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...
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...
capacity for the others hyper-intellectualization (Peavier 100). La Maga is completely devoted to Oliveira. However, possibly be...
the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...