Novel Essays and Term Papers
Human Comedy 2The title is not that important to the novel, but it does aid in understanding one of the book's main themes, that the quality of life is very important.
Homer Macauley: This responsible young man has become the man of the house by supporting his family with an after school job. But with this job ...
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A Literary Analysis Of East OfLiterary analysis of East of Eden
In Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the word love is defined as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Love can bring two people together but it can also have a person be rejected by another because of ...
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Sex In RagtimeThroughout the novel, there are instances of both violent and more refined
sexual references. While an obvious reason for these is the titillating effects
of them, there are deeper, more relevant reasons for them. There are three main
groups within which the sexual activity takes place: Father ...
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OthelloIn the novel Wiseblood, by Flannery O’Connor, one finds an unpleasant, almost antagonistic view of sexuality. The author seems to regard sex as an evil, and harps on this theme throughout the novel. Each sexual incident which occurs in the novel is tainted with grotesquem. Different levels of the ...
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Wuthering Heights"My greatest thought in loving is Heathcliff. If all perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being" (74). In Emily Bronte's novel, , this statement of Caterine's undying love for Heathcliff ...
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A Clockwork Orange: Violence And CorruptionAlex, the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork
Orange, lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a very direct
nature, and is often blunt to the point of offense, but this makes it more
powerful and helps to further its point. This point is that ...
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Loss Of InnocenceThe setting for Montana 1948 is a small rural community where the pioneer family about which the tale evolves controls the law and the medicine. The plot for Montana 1948 is mixed with racial tension, sexual abuse and murder. The Hayden family is torn between justice and loyalty in this novel. ...
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An Analysis Of The Lord Of The FliesThe novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Gerald Golding, is a
remarkable piece of literature that discusses many important topics while
remaining an enjoyable read. One of the important topics that is discussed in
the novel is human nature. Many aspects of human nature is depicted in the ...
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Prose And Style In D.H. Lawrence's Sons And Lovers[1]And after such an evening they both were very still, having
known the immensity of passion. [2]They felt small, half afraid, childish,
and wondering, like Adam and Eve when they lost their innocence and
realized the magnificence of the power which drove them out of Paradise and
across the ...
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Frankenstien And NeuromancerTechnology and its dangerous effects on nature and human life as perceived in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and William Gibson's Neuromancer
Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science) ...
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The Adventures Of HuckleberryFinn
Mark Twain's Finn is a novel about a
young boy's coming of age in the Missouri of the mid-1800's. The main
character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating
down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim.
Before he does so, however, Huck spends ...
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Farewell To Arms 6The novel A Farewell to Arms, (1929) by Ernest Hemingway, takes place on the Italian front of World War I. Fredrick Henry is an American Lieutenant who drives an ambulance for the Italian army. On his leave time he often visits whorehouses and gets drunk. While fighting in the war, his knee ...
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DoubleThe novel Don’t Care High was written by Gordan Korman. This novel, as well as other novels he wrote were based partly on his experiences in high school, where he says, "the only way to get through high school alive was by laughing". This novel relates to teenagers about high school and ...
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Wuthering Heights 2Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë effectively utilizes weather and setting as methods of conveying insight to the reader of the personal feeling of the characters. While staying at Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood made a visit to meet Mr. Heathcliff for a second time, and the ...
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Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte uses violence in several scenes throughout the novel. The violence in the novel is not fatal to anyone, it is just used to catch the readers eye. This novel consists of many emotional aspects. For example, the violence in the scene where Mr. Mason gets attacked. The attack really ...
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Feminism In Jane EyreFeminism has been a prominent and controversial topic in writings
for the past two centuries. With novels such as Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice, or even William Shakespeare's Macbeth the fascination over this
subject by authors is evident. In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre the main
character, ...
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Good Versus Evil: Wars In A Separate PeaceJohn Knowles novel, A Separate Peace, portrays wars on three
distinct levels. These levels could be described as outer, inner, and
world. There is a very good definition of these wars at the closing of the
novel which shows us the levels:
"I could never agree with either of them. It would have ...
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Essay On The StrangerIn ˇ°The Strangerˇ±, Albert Camus misleadingly portrays his existentialistic views of life, death, and the world. Camus portrays the world as ˇ°absurdˇ± or without purpose Meaursalt, who, as a reflection of Camus, is foreign and indifferent to his own life and death. Meaursalt eventually senses ...
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Charles Dickens Hard Times AndEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, ...
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Careful, He Might Hear YouCareful He Might Hear You, by Sumner Locke Elliot, is a complicated novel, revolving around the story of a six year old boy named PS and his search for personal identity amidst the conflicts of his closest relatives. The narration of these conflicts, as well as the history behind their origins, ...
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