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Themes of Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Ramsays family is more materially oriented than spiritually. The religious/spiritual side of life is represented by Mary Dempster...

Jose Maria Arguedas' Deep Rivers

to them. This begins the series of compounding events which propel him toward the tragic end. Symbolically, the changes tha...

Parallels Between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Legend of Prometheus

and mother. At the age of 17, she eloped with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, already a married father of two. She didnt rea...

Anger and Fear in the Workd os Chinua Achebe and Homer

and the Greek forces suffer mightily without their hero. Later in the narrative, his anger propels him into battle. But, just as a...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Nurture and Nature in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

nature holds a great sway over the human condition. She sees the futility of forging an alliance with Linton, while at the same ti...

Guy Johnson's Standing at the Scratch Line

the stage for the entire story. Leroi is sent off to the military rather than prison, and we note a sense of understanding that cl...

Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

her quickly into a world which is dictated by the whims of the men who surround her, both her father and a potential lover....

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the Thematic Elements of Chapter X

if in answer to his call, Victor looks up to see the figure of a man approaching him. It is the monster. Despite the terrible curs...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and the Theme of Domesticity

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

Ernest Hemingway's Primary Literary Themes

he presents. There is pain and violence and death in Hemingways world, and he struggles to show his readers this aspect of life....

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and a Literary Criticism of a Particular Passage

to Rochester to collude in the concealing their past" and overall many of the episodes from the past are forgotten by "the willed ...

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

the worst storm to batter England in recorded history in late November through early December, 1703 (De Wire 34). One DeFoe schola...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Anita Shreve's The Weight of Water

review of The Weight of Water, "There is so much factual information about the Shoals here -- geographical, historical, nautical, ...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Andre Breton's Nadja

into an asylum because he can no longer stand her screaming. In an appalling manner, he turns his back on her and never discovers ...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

Lying in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

town drunk and taught him to steal chickens whenever the opportunity availed itself. In other words, Twain quickly establishes tha...

Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

and dies. The plane crashes, but Brian manages to survive it by landing the plane in a lake. Brians journey begins. While he is ...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Education

be a gentlewoman. What this means is that she wants to support herself and not live in poverty. At one point she goes to live ...

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...

Ian McEwan's Atonement

a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now it could no ...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Flying

relationship with this woman. But after years, when he is in his early thirties, he loses interest and breaks off their relationsh...

Flying Theme in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

relationship with this woman. But after years, when he is in his early thirties, he loses interest and breaks off their relationsh...