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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 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...

Nature as a Theme in Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

character is testified to by the fact that so many movies have been made which were inspired by it. Within each, regardless of ho...

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Building of Mystery, Suspense, and Horror

quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and Themes of Lovers and Love

by his friend Lieutenant Rinaldi who is determined to arrange for the two of them to meet up with some British nurses. At this poi...

The Sea Wolf by Jack London and Free Will

are intellectuals. There is an eclectic group and this sets the stage for many ideas to be broached. There are several external al...

Society's Evils in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines society's evils as represented within Mark Twain's classic American novel. One source is listed...

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Edgar Allan Poe's Composition Philosophy

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Marital Abuse

her story, she shares that her grandmother, a very strict woman and set in her ways, decides that Janie should be married off to s...

Imagery and Themes in Marquez's, Chronicles Of A Death Foretold

manner by which Garcia Marquez achieves this objective is through magic realism. In a world that combines fantasy and reali...

Movie Verses Novel in Depictions of Fellowship of the Ring

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Role of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

affair. If the story were told by Gatsby, we would get the story of a poor but ruthlessly ambitious youth on the make. We would l...

Plot Analysis Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where the normal-sized man is regarded as a circus freak by the six-inch Lilliputians. They cant fi...

Racism and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper examines how racism is attacked by the author in this classic American novel. There are no other sources...

Perception and Civilization in Golding's Lord of the Flies

This paper examines the formation of the severely dysfunctional society in William Golding's classic novel. This five page paper ...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

Jay Gatsby and the Cult of Celebrity

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

Jay Gatsby and the American Dream

move comfortably in the social circle of people like the Buchanans. Fitzgerald shows us all the trappings of wealth: the gorgeous...

Narrative Techniques in “Pride and Prejudice”

to Elizabeth Bennett and Maria Lucas, who have been staying with him and his wife for six weeks. Mrs. Collins is Elizabeths sister...

Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zora Neale Hurston's Use of Dialect

dialect, plain speaking, and easily conversational (Bloom 95). The subject of local gossips whispers, the thrice-married Janie co...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

“Up the Down Staircase”: An American Classic

or "Do you have home room all year?" Kaufman throws the reader in at the deep end by not using quotation marks, or telling us whos...

Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

his civilized life. The plot, other than Huck running away, involved Huck running and coming in contact with Jim, a slave he kn...

Comparative Analysis of Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Title Character of Henry James' Daisy Miller

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

has a dual mission. That is, he wants to survive the attack by the Martians and he also wants to find his wife. There are other ch...

To Kill a Mockingbird and the Theme of Courage

Kill A Mockingbird"). The Radleys would ultimately play a very important part in the novel, and in this humble beginning which ill...

Identity, Maturity and David Copperfield

This essay offers discussion of the issues maturity and identity in regards to "David Copperfield," the classic novel by Charles D...