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Love Relationships in The English Patient

one day to the next whether they would live or die. Theirs is almost an animalistic chemistry that is often depicted by Ondaatje ...

Symbolism of Tita's Blanket in the Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

This paper examines what Tita's blanket symbolizes in Laura Esquirel's novel Like Water for Chocolate and in its cinematic adaptat...

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

In six pages this paper considers the Great Terror of 1930s Russia within the context of the novel and discusses how Stalin's purg...

Heroism in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

In five pages Achebe's novel is examined within the context of its representation of social heroism. Two sources are cited in the...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye Contrasted in Two Essays

but also from other novels from Morrison, as well as the wider context of mainstream culture, as she examines how African American...

Self Definition Quest of Janie Crawford in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

In a paper consisting of two pages this paper discusses how the action of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston is propelled by the pro...

Michael Crichton's Disclosure

In ten pages gender issues, lack of employee recognition, and sexual harassment are among the issues discussed within the context ...

Film and Novel Versions of Day of the Locust

In three pages an analysis of Tod Hackett's character is the primary focus of this comparative novel and film analysis of Day of t...

Comparative Analysis of Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew and Myriam Warner Vieyra's Juletane

These novels are contrasted and compared in 6 pages with the cultural impact on gender relationships, isolation, and interdependen...

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Homoeroticism

In five pages Joyce's novel is examined in terms of its thematic representation of homosexuality and homoeroticism. Two other sou...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Humanity

In three pages this paper examines the lack of humanity benefit from social changes as considered in the novel by Aldous Huxley. ...

Jazz by Toni Morrison and Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil

In five pages this report examines Becker's 1975 novel with Wertmuller's 1976 film in a comparative analysis of the dark humor and...

Different Narrative Voices in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

This paper contrasts and compares how the author's narrative voices are used in each of these novels in 7 pages. Two sources are ...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Kanthapura by Raja Rao

In five pages this report examines the 1938 novel that is widely regarded as the first English modern Indian literary classic. Tw...

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia and the Cold War

In five pages this paper examines how the characters in the novel were affected by the Cold War between the U.S. and the Cuba of F...

Feminine Nature and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me" ...

John Irving's Cider House Rules and the 'Underdog'

was dyslexic before that particular learning disability had been identified by name - took Seabrookes, words as a kind of mantra. ...

A Review of the Novel World's End

The writer reviews the novel World's End by T.C. Boyle, which is set in the Hudson River Valley and spans many generations. The pa...

Frankenstein as a Tragic Figure?

In five pages this novel by Mary Shelley is analyzed in order to determine whether or not the character of Frankenstein qualifies ...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In eight pages this paper analyzes this classic American novel and its confrontation of post First World War truths about the Amer...

Influence of Politics on the Characters in The Marrow of Tradition and Their Eyes Were Watching God

In five pages this paper discusses the political disadvantages experienced by Dr. William Miller and Janie Crawford in the novels ...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease

In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...

Clint Eastwood's Film Unforgiven and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote Compared

In three pages this film and novel are compared in terms of the sidekick's stature by comparing Ned Logan and the Schofield Kid wi...

Transition and Change in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In five pages this novel by John Steinbeck is summarized and analyzed as it pertains to the Joad family changes and a Depression e...

Family Responsibility and Conspicuous Consumption in House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In five pages this paper discusses how in this Edith Wharton novel, family responsibility is compromised by conspicuous consumptio...

Pride and Prejudice and its Aristotelian Concepts

points out that because magnanimous people have a proper set of values they frequently appear to have a "lofty detachment" to the ...

Concept of Quests in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Moby Dick by Herman Melville

In five pages these two novels are compared in an analysis of how the concept of a quest is featured within each. There are no ot...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...