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Self-Centeredness in Dorothea and Reverend Casaubon

(Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looki...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

The Exception

group. She is a long time friend of Iben, a fact that was not revealed when Iben applied for and got the job with the organization...

Life of Ernest Hemingway Reflected in his Art

Uncle Sam finally entered the First World War in 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist, but was constantly rejected because of his poor ...

The Things They Carried

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

Stephanie Meyer’s Eclipse

Edward and the "good" vampires at odds with Victorias group. It should also be noted that Victoria is out for revenge because prev...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS AS A METAPHOR

and dedication to his single goal, he was able to afford two of them; Old Dan (the "brawn" of the duo) and Little Ann (the "brains...

Beowulf

cause of a king in order to help him, essentially asking nothing in return. There is another character, Unferth, who approaches B...

The Hairy Ape

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Lucy Gayheart

to come. It is, as noted, a relatively simple story. But, at the same time, without the deep psychological reading she is...

Willa Cather: “My Antonia”

in the grass and Antonia begins to ask Jim to tell her the English names of things; she is quick and alert and seems very much a p...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Settings and Their Importance in Frankenstein

Walton, who explains the story in letters to his sister; he in turn has heard it from Frankenstein himself. This is a "framing" de...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

Strength of Love and Tim McLaurin’s Woodrow’s Trumpet

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

Heart of Darkness & Social Expectations

darkest impulses are given free reign. Through the eyes of Marlow, Conrad makes it clear that Kurtzs nineteenth century notions of...

Quotations from Frankenstein

of all, the book begins as a series of letters by one "R. Walton" to "Mrs. Saville"; these letters comprise the first four chapter...

The Kite Runner and Guilt

people in his life one can see why he is in such a labyrinth of personal issues, trying to come to terms with all of it. And at th...

Compton in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! And The Sound and the Fury

them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe its better then, maybe its fine...

Willie Talos in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

smooth and convincing as he states the following: "If they had politicians back in those days, they said, Gimme, just like all of ...

The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows

Amber begins to grow up and learn and see the world in a very kind way, thinking more about others than herself in the end. She is...

Austen and Trollope/A Comparison

A 5 page comparison between Jane Austen's Emma and in Anthony Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? The writer argues that each novel il...

Goethe’s Faust

A 5 page character study and summation of Goethe’s Faust. Bibliography lists 4 sources....

Secondary Characters in “Ferdydurke” and “The Stranger”

He notes that old women often have big stomachs, while the men are "thin as rakes, and they all carried sticks" (Camus, 1946, p. 8...

“The Stone Angel”

his store, shed find him behind the counter, "bulky and waistcoated, his voice with its Scots burr prompting me when I forgot, and...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...