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Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Novel as a Successful Form of Literature

in our relationships with family and friends, in our working environments - all of these play an important role in who we are, and...

Ada's Journey in Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

Red Azalea and Dragon's Village

had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...

French Literary Relationships Between Males and Females

he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...

Comparing 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess with Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Race Construction

helmsman awfully... Perhaps you will think it passing strange, this regret for a savage who was of no more account than a grain of...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

The Shining Film and Perspective

place in the hotel. Before truly examining the narrative content in the film we look at the elements concerning the protagonist....

Characteristics of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

heroes had a faithful sidekick. Through the inspired use of satire, Cervantes creates a character that reveals the ridiculousness...

'Pet Cemetery' by Stephen King and the Acceptance of Death

starts out dealing with death simply enough. The family cat is killed by a car on the highway. The neighbor asks "Louis if hed lik...

Generations and Society in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

culture that keeps the people alive. He represents the average individual in any given culture and could perhaps exist in almost a...

Cultural Assumptions in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India

beyond the fact that the English essentially control them and find a level of peace somehow. But, in the end it seems that each ch...

Comparative Analysis of Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain and the Character of Hank Morgan

he is bound to a stake at the center of a seated multitude, walled in by four thousand people who have come to watch him be burned...

Symbolic Interaction in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez

true, but there will also be certain established parameters which must not be crossed. To do so marks the individual as deviant in...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe from a Sociological Perspective

In five pages this research paper examines several sociological concepts relevant to this 1959 novel including British coloniali...

The River Why by Duncan

idea of a perfect year includes "4,000 actual fishing" hours. Gus explains that his fathers full name is Henning Hale Orviston a...

A 'Howard's End' Marxist Interpretation

or weddings. They live on the compound or they may just visit. Howards End becomes a centerpiece for the story and is symbolic of ...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Nature Imagery in the Works of Zora Neale Hurston and William Wordsworth

are not representative of nature and he finds refreshment and nourishment in his memories, and now in his seeing nature again. ...

Comparison of Minfong Ho's Rice Without Rain and The Clay Marble

no more than family consists solely on bloodlines. After Dara hopefully remarks, "I heard a cowbell" (Ho 3) that to her means som...

Development of Simon in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

out of the sea" (5,81). Simon is the only one who realizes that the Beast is not real, but is instead the savagery that lives ins...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and the Power Concept

states, "The queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickl...

Artemis Fowl The Opal Deception Book Four by Eoin Colfer Overview

assumed that both Haven City and the fairy universe are safe from Opal because she has been locked away in a psychiatric ward at J...

Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, Age of Innocence and Naturalism

This struggle is also seen in the character of Archer who is intrigued by her uniqueness. He is stifled by society and by the dema...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

doing so (Kingwood College Library). However, he accidentally kills another member of the tribe and is sent into exile for 7 years...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...