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diary form, however, there is no hidden agenda necessarily and the individual, Roquentin, is left bare for both the reader and Roq...

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

been used, similar to George Orwells "1984" to describe the impact and the reaction of the Nazi invasion on France during World Wa...

his mother and we do not understand what type of relationship they had together. We also begin to understand that he and his mothe...

their own minds, try to "find" a motivation for Mersaults actions. Mersault is eventually convicted and sentenced with a motive th...

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

"moves slowly, but surely into a plotline filled with many serious topics: abuse, rape, the inability to love, the immediate reper...

Gregors father who would rather his son did not exist. And, there is Gregors mother who is of a similar opinion as the father. The...

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

sell / it (lines 6-7). And, indeed, love sells well -- everything from cars to toothpaste -- filling whole magazines -- "you can /...

the plague does exist, but never imagine it in their town, affecting their people: "everybody knows that pestilences have a way of...

increased recognition and familiarity for the strangeness to be lost....

The very nature of such a situation requires that the primary character survive that which the reader is not sure he or she could ...

Sisyphus himself perceives his condition....

A 7 page analysis of the works by Margaret Atwood and Herman Hesse. The focus is two fold. The journey to individuation is anal...

This paper consists of 12 pages and concerns asking famous philosophers such as George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, John Wisdom, Davi...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

In three pages this paper discusses how in Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus' views on suicide are expressed. One source is cited in ...

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

In ten pages this essay examines totalitarian control of sexuality as depicted in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Ninet...

about Gregors change is the way he accepts it without question. The reminder of the book deals wit the consequences of his transfo...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

is in commerce, and their chief aim in life is, as they call it, doing business" (Camus 4). More and more cases of ill people a...

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

what happens to most of the people who are quarantined in Oran. Dr. Bernard Rieux, however, is different. The Narrator of the stor...

also differences in style. Smith, for example, uses less alliteration than Atwood, and his short, clipped lines emphasize and isol...

concerned that his mother died. Likewise the narrator in Dostoevskys story is unlikable from the beginning, establishing his wor...

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...