In the outstanding novel The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the world comes to and end due to the building of an intergalactic overpass, Arthur Dent, the main character, and Ford Prefect catch a ride with the Vogons and have the trip of their lives with some bumps along the way. Arthur →
Traditionally, from the lips of an adroit narrator to the ears of keen listeners and eventually to their hearts, oral literature has played a major role in the traditional African set-up. The novel was published in the year in 1958 and recounts the adventures of a village warrior and hero, Okwonko who gives a description →
This essay is about to tell us how do the fantastic and fictional worlds and images correspond to the real life of the living people, how their culture and traditions are depicted in the works of the artists, writers and film directors and how the images of art pieces reflect and form the life of →
Christopher was then forced to live in their aunt's place where he desired and vowed to become a detective in that he was motivated by the fact that he did not know and understood the disappearance of his parents in a span of two weeks. In the instance of his encounter with the police of →
These women, especially the Naked Blonde and Sybil, are thereby relegated to the role of the stereotypical white seductress who is attracted to the equally stereotypical notion of the primitive and animalistic sexual impulse of the black man. For the narrator and the other black boys, the prospect of a naked white woman is horrifying →
Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar If you delve into the content of almost any novel, there is almost always some kind of struggle for power. For instance, the novel 1984 by George Orwell is about the struggle of a man and →
The readers get a glimpse of the story through his eyes and it may change their view of Grendel. But also, as never before, I was alone." Grendel states this at the end of Chapter 6 and it marks the start of his 12-year war against the humans.
David Anomalous Ransom, a postmodern revitalization of Homer's literary epic, the Iliad not only explores the Inner conflict born In man through the vicious undertaking of a path of revenge, but also the intense hatred sparked by the unbearable loss of loved ones. It is often identified that the crux of Ransom is centered around →
There a number of themes in Dickens ' Great Expectations,' but the theme of the age old problem of being a gentleman in any society surfaces through the character of Pip. Pip is the narrator of the story and he deals with issues that help the readers to see the qualities of the gentleman in →
Even though every one of the episodes enlightens the writer's flashbacks of the Vietnam War, the writer incorporates female characters that have a focal influence in the book. In this story, the choice of warrior Stamp Fossie to convey his sweetheart to the Vietnam War.
As such, it can be seen that Africans are pushed to the fringes, through their lack of voice, and are therefore marginalized as savage and incapable of intelligent speech. In this way, some of the dominant ideologies and values of Conrad's time, that is, racism, sexism and colonialism are revealed through the novella.
The topic of my essay is Eternal beauty of true love and it discusses the romance novel Dear John by Nicholas Charles Sparks as a thrilling story of true love, meaningful relationships and self-devotion. That is why I would strongly recommend the novel Dear John as a bright example of romance story that makes you →
Symbolism is the main factor in understanding of the theme of the story.Mr. Such as in this case, " a rose by Emily" the author uses of many literary techniques to create the theme of the story.
Both Thiongo and Achebe revile to the reader that power and respect take time to be earned however a rash mistake made at a time of anger can result in the loss of authority and can cause the tragic downfall of a hero. This is show as both protagonist is the novel's come from unstable →
In this case it's Edna, a discontented wife, the widow, and Mademoiselle Reisz that are all seen weird by the society of both men and women. In the case of Edna's husband, Leonce he has time for his own, such as reading newspapers and go to the club.
In the book, this is evidenced where Winnie in her entire life displays a sense of duty to her husband regardless of the challenges she goes through in her marriage. This is evident in the book where just after Winnie's father approves of her union to Wen Fu, he is seen to advise and remind →
The themes of tradition, social appearance and belonging, and fear and anger, are blended in such a way as to bring to light the main theme of the story. All in all one could derive from this story that it was meant to be about the rise and fall of a great warrior and his →
So Okonkwo set the standards of a man to be everything his father was not rejecting anything his father stood for. I have explained to you that Okonkwo was a native of Iguedo and was this great warrior of the Umuofia clan.
Reviewing Emma for the Quarterly Review, Sir Walter Scott characterized its strengths and weaknesses: The author's knowledge of the world, and the peculiar tact with which she presents characters that the reader cannot fail to recognize, reminds us something of the merits of the Flemish school of painting. The individual and society What is the →
It discusses in particular how the author developed the themes of heroism and love in the novel as evident in the characters, dialogues, and imagery. In an attempt to exemplify the themes of heroism and love, this paper will cite quotations from the novel, and discuss how each of them contributes to the success of →
According to Ba, Mariama, the main character for Mariama Ba's So Long Letter is Ramatoulaye. From the text, we learn that Ramatoulaye has written a letter to Assiatou who is her best friend expressing herself and how she plans to carry out her new life after acing all she went through.
These incidences, the death of Caulfield's brother, the suicide of a school friend and his constant feeling of alienation, eventually leads him to reject what he feels is the " phoniness" of the adult world. The death of both his brother and schoolmate causes him to feel he must protect the innocence and purity, which →
It is important to note that Haddon begins the plot with a simple need to discover the murderer of a poodle but manages to reveal secrets to the characters and his readers. In a bid to discover the murderer, Christopher launches an investigation and finds himself in the middle of secrets and deception between his →
Miss Havisham was also, in Pips eyes, the cause of his ' Great expectations' Miss Havisham may also have been placed in the novel by Dickens, To explore how the effects of bad experiences on people. This according to her is ' Broken.' When Miss Havisham says ' I sometimes have sick fancies' this shows →
In light of the novel's use of symbolism, allegory, and situational irony, Edna's incapability to emancipate herself from the various men who constrict her, and her drastic and mercurial fluctuations between accepting herself and living for others demonstrate that The Awakening does not entirely conform to the feminist ideal. This tactic is undoubtedly polar to →
Like his son, Chlomo was very religious at the start of the novel and questioned the faith as they arrived at Auswitz as he saw babies being killed." At the very end of the novel- what is represented as being important? At end of the novel all the things that Chlomo represents and symbolized remain →
Achebe supplies comprehensive summary of Ibo community translating their saying and myths and evaluating the status and role of women in Ibo society and in pre-colonial Africa. The next moment to mention is treatment of women in Ibo community.
Letters are used as a dramatic device to further the plot, link the story and to inform the readers of the character's personalities. Mr Collins is more on the side of being completely ignorant to his actions and we forgive him more as he is thought to be a hopeless character in the novel.
The novel tells of a story where Cal is caught up in his country's violent conflict and implicated on the edge of crime and violence, to the extent that he has acquired an oppressive secret and unbearable guilt. Cal's guilt plays a huge part in his actions and is therefore integral to our understanding of →
The book " The Octopus" written by Frank Norris in the year 1901 falls in the genre of fictional epic and is one of the unique literary treatises. In regards to the American society, Norris' purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the immutability of the natural order, the socioeconomic changes happening in the nineteenth →
In her book The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses the symbolism and imagery of birds and wings to display Edna Pontillier's struggle to free herself from society's cage. In relation to the parrot, Edna is also treated and seen as property by Mr.
The family resents Gregor and sees him as a burden, which is a negative change, but previously the family had relied on Gregor as their source of income. The change in the family's behavior towards Gregor had become increasingly negative.
However, the Indians in the novel are not quick to befriend the English people in their area as according to them, " the English are a comic institution". In addition, the fact that Europe is far from the Asian continent guarantees inconsistency to the traditions and cultures between the two societies mentioned in the novel.
When the captain of the steamboat they are travelling in dies, Conrad takes over as the new captain. The Norton Anthology of Western Literature.
This paper intends to discuss William Goldwin's best novel, ' Lord of the Flies' along with discussing other related aspects of the novel.' Lord of the flies' is a tale of a group of boys who were left high and dry as their pilotless plane lands on an island during a war. He is a →
The novel Perfume by Patrick Suskind, narrates a story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the person who possesses an incredible sense of smell, however, does not have a smell of his own, who in order to create the " ultimate perfume", that later will let him to be accepted by the society, commits a series of murders, →
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel written by Gabriel Garc a Marquez that narrates a multi-generational story of the real life of the author's hometown as well as of the fictional town of Macondo. However, by the time of Marquez's birth, Aracataca had begun a long, slow decline into poverty and obscurity, a →
Like Nwoye and his father Okonkwo, a father-and-son relationship could be complicated and difficult. It is clear that from the beginning of this book, Okonkwo and Nwoye are different and in fact somehow similar.
In the end of " Heart of Darkness," Marlow, in delivering the last words of the deceased agent, lied to Kurtz fiancee. In explaining the decision made by Marlow in the end of the story, we need to trace the reasons that urged him to do so.
Set in turn of the century New Orleans, The Awakening details the futile attempts of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, to realize a modicum of personal freedom amid the socially constrictive Victorian era, wherein the roles allowed to females consisted exclusively of wifedom and motherhood. In Chopin's mind, it is Edna's inability to fully embrace her →
Heart of Darkness Contrasting marlow and kurtz and the theme of evil in " heart of darkness" Contrasting Marlow and Kurtz and the Theme of Evil In " Heart of Darkness" It can be said that a certain degree of darkness lies within every person, but this darkness will not surface unless given the correct →
This explains how Okonkwo's psyche and state of mind drives him to overcome his father's reputation and start a new one of his own. Achebe is right; this is a " violent" act, pertaining both to the boy and to Okonkwo.
Pip is reluctant to disclose that he is daunted by Miss Havisham's condescending presence; this conveys to the reader the magnitude of her superiority. This has a charming eminence that is appealing to the readers.
Moreover, we see how Forster develops Lucy's mind throughout the novel, similar to the way Stevens in The Remains of the Day slowly begins to let us see that he is an unreliable narrator, and the truth starts to come out. The opening chapter of A Room with a View sees Lucy in the Bertolini, →
This essay will compare and contrast the Character of Gatsby and Fantine from the ' The Great Gatsby' and ' Les Miserables' respectively. On the other hand, Fantine is arguably the main character in the novel ' Les Miserables.' He constantly finds himself on the wrong side of the law since after losing her job →
Although this novel is filled with a sense of the past through the old man, his lifestyle and his chaotic collection of memorabilia, Rager also evokes a sense of 21st century Washington to which the protagonist escapes from time to time to escape the stifling atmosphere of the mysterious mansion and its possessive yet repressed →
The novel is showing that the mental strength of men is higher than that of females, so that is why the title is ' Boys Do not Cry' as his ex-girlfriend dumps the baby and leaves Dante is forced to man up and try handle the situation. In some circumstances it is hard to accept →
The essay will also examine the context behind the novel in terms of the status of reading and literature in that period of history in England and how this theme of reading and literature reflects on Austen's broader theme within the novel. Therefore, the theme of reading and literature within " Northanger Abbey" plays a →
Throughout the novel, the sea calls to Edna, inviting her to escape." The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude". The sea brings Edna the experience of a solitude she could " lose herself" in, which is very appealing to Edna as →
He is now Michael and he finally has a real family." But I am beginning to think I have been given a chance. While processing his unexpected and bizarre adventures, he decisively ponders, " I used to hate the rain.
The use of England, France, and the characters makes the novel better because they add to the intensity of the plot " between the two eternally paradoxical poles of life and death". The most important foil of the novel is the relationship between Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton.
Vathek, Gulchenrouz, the fifty sons of Vathek's viziers, Giaour and others have a great deal of anxiety and sexual tension regarding their identities, which forms a substantial part of the queer subtext of the novel Vathek. However, the sexual nature of the characters in Vathek are shown to be immensely fluid and fascinating, spanning the →
A while later, Bingley and Darcy return, and they propose to Jane and Elizabeth, and the two accept and get married. The theme of the book is love, and the relationships between Jane and Bingley and Elizabeth and Darcy.
Rationale The intention of the following text is to elaborate the use of meta-fiction and narrative layering in Tim O Brien s The Things They Carried through writing a narrated interview with Tim O Brien regarding Part Four s study: Literature and Critical Study. Several techniques used to break down Tim O Brien s work →
Pip then started a new life and it was not until 11 years later that he met Estella again, who was married to a cruel husband, now divorced and changed to a better person, and given Pip a place in her heart. From the use of such a technique, Pip's inner conflicts are clearly revealed →
The novel follows the steps of the main character, Offred, through her life as a Handmaid, a woman under the control of the commander whose objective is to bear a child. Subsequently, the night appears to be the story of Offred, meanwhile the other events, including duties, shopping, sexual obligations and other are the actions →
One of the many tropes in evident in Mosley's novel is the big change in focal point in a detective narrative from the design of the story to the character. This big change on focal point from the design of the story to the characters themselves is a noteworthy point in the classic American detective →
If I, as a feminist reader, allow myself to enjoy novels by Hemingway, Lawrence and Fitzgerald, as I should, I also must accept the responsibility of being a " resisting reader". Because being an intelligent and informed feminist reader is so important to me, I would like to hone my skills with both the texts →
As soon as he appears on the pages of the novel all the characters become aware of the amount of his income 10 000 pounds a year, the enormous amount for that time.Mr. And if at the beginning of the novel these judgments form a negative image of the character, later, from the moment of →
The main weakness of the book is that the author seems to avoid discussion of complex topics and aspects of qualitative research. The book provides enough background to understand the essentials of qualitative data analysis and provides an example through the real research of a graduate student struggling to understand her data.
First, focusing on the character Edna Pontellier from the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, and the way in which she breaks from the normal expectations of a housewife. This story is also set in the Southern region of the United States, and portrays the roles in which women of this region were expected to →
But if one is to judge by the quantity of scholarly attention to Dickens's novels and their prominence in the university curricula around the world today, Charles Dickens's greatness as an artist of the English language is assured. Dickens is the master of the sentimental, especially in the contexts of women and children, the poor, →
Santiago faces many adversities in the novel but the main one that makes up the plot is Santiago being shunned as a fisherman in his village by all of the people because he can not catch one fish. Choose one quality both share and discuss in detail the impact of this quality on the fate →
The novel opens with a story from Dick-and-Jane primer that presents a contrast between the said narrative and the circumstances of the characters in the novel's story. This stark contrast between the two sets of characters at first appears to tell the reader that the middle-class family of Dick and Jane, who are presumably whites, →
From the moment Heathcliff was introduced to the Earnshaw family, as an orphan that was found in the streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff was claimed to be an outsider and treated as one. Earnshaw died, Hindley became the master of the house and because of his hatred of Heathcliff; he started the process of degrading him.
The author wants to show that a person is forceless in the face of the world and reality, and everything can happen to him. It is obvious that the transform, which happened to Gregor, creates the barrier between him and the rest of the world.
The novel begins and relates to the post divorce battle for the custody of the only child produced by the marriage of Ida and Beale Farange. The end of the novel brings in itself a new beginning for maise away from the manipulations of her parents and step parents.
The book of Achebe speaks for the colonized who describes the colonizer thus: " He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart." Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo whose tragic life is set at the time of the European colonization of →
Raphael shows the qualities of friendliness, kindness, caring and selfless. Raphael shows the quality of friendly in the scene where he listen to Rat when nobody knows what he is doing.
For example, the Bennets are middle class and they are made to know it by their economic and social superiors - the Bingleys and Darcys. Bennet and the rest of the sisters after the event of Mr.
Despite the sordid nature of his uncle's crimes, and the effect they have on the Hayden family, David brings to mind a memory of his parents who are strong enough to withstand the pressures exerted by Frank's crimes, Julian's rage and the fact that they have dishonoured the Hayden name. Julian is the epitome →
The author of this novel, Kate Chopin, was brought up in an intellectual environment and was aware of the marital problems that were experienced during the Victorian period.' The Awakening' is a novel that is written in the Victorian society which is patriarchal. This is a very strict society that has prejudiced conventions that →
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it →
No one is completely innocent and everyone has the ability to turn violent, this is demonstrated in this novel. In the Lord of the Flies, the boys started off by adopting civil rules and creating civility amongst themselves. In Lord of the Flies, the boys' descent to savagery was a gradual process, which was influenced →
Throughout his life, Okonkwo does everything he can to never show signs of his father, who was known for his laziness and weakness. He had no patience with his father" Okonkwo did not want to be like his father because his father was not what Okonkwo thought was a man, he had feminine →
I detected some important detail in the way in which the main character carries out his feat, that he is a character who is very clear about what he wants and finds himself with a series of circumstances which are adapted so that he can continue his story, from the simple fact of earning the →
In her utilization of the phrase " a hot thing" , which Morrison draws from Sethe's understanding of characteristics, she describes the feeling that occurs after the loss of a human identity. The context of this quote also makes it clear that Sethe is talking about injustices that robbed people to whom she was close →
When Kino throws the great treasure back into the sea, the message seems to be that the poop Indian does not have a chance. The Pearl can also be interpreted as an allegory of the soul. In The Pearl Coyotito can be identified with Kino's " pearl of great value". One can establish →
In this community there is a hierarchy of class, as summarised by Jem: the Finches and their neighbours represent the White middle class, the Cunninghams who are the badly hit farming community, the Ewells who are classed as the lowest form of the White community , and the Black community who are automatically seen →
This is one of the key stylistic methods of the novel; as the reader is unable to witness the events first-hand, he/she is forced to trust or adopt the opinions and perspectives of the narrators and the characters in those scenes. While this might seem the safest way to experience Jane Austen without the danger →
There are many incidences in the story that show Elizabeth's dislike for Darcy because of his pride starting with their encounter at the ball, Wickham's opinions and accusations of Darcy, and her refusal of his proposal; however, Elizabeth begins to see a new side of Darcy and could not think of living a life without →
I sense that I will never discover another book I cherish as much as Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, and I am crushed that I have completed it. My class was loaded up with genuine essayists; publishable scholars. Tom was not partial to the primary story I turned in, and I did not merit for him →
This paper will analyze the major subjects of the book and investigate the author's writing style and tendency to focus on certain specific features and themes that create the plot of Waterlily. Despite that the story of Waterlily is mostly about the life of South Dakota, the novel has not much in common with the →
One favors materialistic objects, and wishes he had a raccoon coat, and the other favors looks, and beauty, and wishes he had a certain girl to go steady with. He had made Petey a deal, and that deal was to exchange the raccoon coat , for Polly.
Aside from being caught and severely punished for the three hours of the night that Equality 7-2521 and International 4-8818 spent in the tunnel from the Unmentionable Time, describe two other dangers they faced. Chapter 2: 1. Of the entire range of feelings possible to humans (joy, anger, embarrassment, jealousy, etc)., explain why fear →
As it can be seen from the scene, when three young boys decided to follow the footsteps of criminals during the robbery in motel, for majority of people their historical and social background plays crucial role when they had become gangsters. The second novel Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto touches the issues of social injustice and →
The basic design of a semiconductor laser relies on the construction of a double heterostructure, in which an amplifier layer is sandwiched between two resonator layers, so that light is confined in the amplifier layer and gets amplified.. In this process, the wafer is passed underneath the molten of a material, and the →
The intention of this critique is to significantly analyze the novel, " The Enchanted Bluff", and " Life in the Iron-Mills" written by William Cather and Rebecca Harding Davis respectively. The paper also seek to compare and contrast the two novels on the basis of relationship of the protagonist and antagonist, the setting time and →
In the dystopian novel " The Testing", Joelle Charbonneau uses characterization to establish the theme that when a loved one is in a troubling situation an individual will exert actions they would not normally in order to help the one in need and to keep the feeling of family relevant and continuous. With the →
What he tells the reader in his novella can be interpreted by the reader to be a microcosm of the Victorian era and an insight into how ordinary people who lived in London saw and did. Stevenson's descriptions of London are often dull and dreary, describing it as old and as if it has →
The art lies in the depiction of imperialistic approach i.e., unsympathetic and inhuman relationship of the natives of central Africa and European colonizers who became an embodiment of evil due to his prolonged stay in the dark continent of Congo. The themes used in the novel are: theme of evil, theme of imperialism, theme of →
The period was referred to as the age of enlightenment or the age of reason. Even the rich like Victor and Elizabeth in the novel, and like Shelley and her husband would have to undergo many discomforts. Shelley claims to have thought of the story in a dream when she wrote the first edition of →
Darcy's aunt comes to the Bennet's house and warns Elizabeth off Darcy as she is not good enough for him and then proceeds to ban Elizabeth from ever accepting a proposal from Darcy which Elizabeth vehemently refuses to do. The next day Darcy and Elizabeth find themselves together and Darcy then proposes and →
Okonkwo is later selected by the elders to be the guardian of Ikemefuna, a boy taken prisoner by the village as a peace settlement between two villages after his father killed an Umuofian woman. There was a lot of killing I thought anyways, and I would have never thought Okonkwo would have killed himself before →
Though many people become convinced of the new religion's authenticity over time, Okonkwo is an inflexible warrior at heart, and his refusal to accept the changes taking place in his community serves to further exacerbate the point of the novel that things that were once familiar always fall apart in the end. Okonkwo's village, Umuofia, →
Fahrenheit 451, written in 1953 about the near future and the entire social problems it has, and the movie Pleasantville made in 1998 about a perfect society, could prove through their similarities and differences how the results are about the same. Soon after being in the show, they realize that everyone should not be equal, →