Novel Analysis: Brave New World, Aldous Huxley In Aldous Huxley's sci-fi novel, Brave New World, we are taken on a journey into the future, A.F 632 to be exact. Humanity is not what it used to be now that it is under a totalitarian rule with Mustapha Mond being at helm of this new society. J...

The Horses of All the Pretty Horses In his novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy presents us with a young man's journey through the regions of the unknown into adulthood. This novel, at once a western, a coming of age story, and a picturesque adventure, gives the story of John Grady...

The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Matrix directed by the Wachowski brothers, are very similar with respects to their characters, and settings, and yet so different at the same time. A futuristic society, based on the three principles of the state COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, and STABILITY...

In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien is a novel that shows the way the Vietnam War still holds a grip on the American psyche and some of the reasons why this is so. The novel illuminates issues that ar reflected in other literature, both fictional and non-fictional, regarding the war and its ef...

In the following excerpt, Kramer examines the interplay between Jane's concern for equality and her urges to submit or rebel. The fact is that the motivating forces of Jane Eyre's personality are not sexual concepts at all but personal concepts. She reacts as she does to erotic situations not...

Something about Charles Dickens and his ability to take his reader to unbelievable places with his imaginative powers allows him the honor of being the most popular English novelist of the 19th century. Dickens has thrilled his readers for many years with his down-to-earth stories about real people ...

Both novels are a heterogeneous collection of the same theme: the spiritual and emotional growth of the heroine. Both novels send forth, political messages traversing feminism idea of one's emancipation. Bronte uses Jane as a figure of female independence, while Sylvia Plath demonstrates her ...

Accepting Differences The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee and the short story, "Chrysanthemums," by John Steinbeck, deal with male and female differences between characters. The characters of these stories experience tensions and complexities with dominance, gender, a...

If written today, Tess of the d'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy may have been called Just Call Me Job or Tess: Victim of Fate. Throughout this often bleak novel, the reader is forced by Tess's circumstance to sympathize with the heroine (for lack of a better term) as life deals her blow after horrif...

Tess Of D`Urbervilles If written today, Tess of the d'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy may have been called Just Call Me Job or Tess: Victim of Fate. Throughout this often bleak novel, the reader is forced by Tess's circumstance to sympathize with the heroine (for lack of a better term) as life deals...

SYMBOLISM OF A SEPARATE PEACE By Jeremiah Noack Thesis: John Knowles uses symbolism in the novel A Separate Peace to show the coming of age, in young people in high school. I. INTRODUCTION II. SYMBOLISM OF CHARACTERS A. Gene symbolizes Phineas B. Complete opposites III. THE...

Title: Drums Along the Mohawk Author: Walter D. Edmonds Type of literary work: Historical Novel Theme: The theme of this novel is the willpower to achieve one's goal, or in this case, the American dream. The characters are very strong and show a lot of fortitude in accomplishing their goals....

Title: Darkness Be My Friend Author: John Marsden Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Publishing Date: 1996 Setting: This book is set in fairly modern times about 1990. I know this because the teenagers speak the same way my friends and I do and dress just like people do now. I also know thi...

What is it that after all these years that can keep a reader glued to a novel? What is it that keeps the pages of a novel flipping? What is it that can make an hour seem like ten minutes? The answer is suspense: each novel of this genre constantly repeats the same steps over and over, yet each ...

The idea of finding the "perfect match" was mentioned in both the novel and the movie but, with a few differences. What is the perfect match? To have a happy life? Be financially secure? Or does is have to be love at first sight? In both the novel and the movie, Emma still has the same...

"Waiting for time" by Bernice Morgan is a very interesting novel. It is the sequel to Bernice Morgan's "Random Passage". In "Waiting for Time" Bernice Morgan continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. She has further developed the characters into more ma...

William Faulkner's fourth novel, The Sound and the Fury, which chronicled the decline of a once-esteemed Louisiana family, the Compsons, might have been a commercial failure after its 1928 release, but was always affectionately referred to by the author as his "most splendid failure" (Cape and Smith...

Religion in Crime and Punishment: -Raskolnikov's Pilgrimage Towards Salvation- "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"...

"To you I am neither a man nor a woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me- the sole ground on which I accept your judgement." - Charlotte Bronte, to a critic (Oates, V) Charlotte Brontë's reputation may be explained in part by the...

In John Knowle's A Separate Peace, symbols are used to develop and advance the themes of the novel. One theme is the lack of an awareness of the real world among the students who attend the Devon Academy. The war is a symbol of the "real world", from which the boys exclude themselves. It is as ...

John Myers Theme 1 Cold Mountain Written from a third person, perspective point of view, Cold Mountain is a novel that depicts the themes of self-determination, undying love, generosity, and self-reliance, several themes that are found in society. Author Charles Frazier creates the char...

For almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to his reader=s imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton=s writing stands out as much as his 6=9@ frame. He has become one of the most widely read and bought science fiction authors of the past th...

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Carson McCullers Having lived a difficult life made Carson McCullers a very strong minded person. Born into a highly respectable family with moderate means, she received an opportunity to play the piano at a very young age. McCullers was the oldest of three children that were born to highly regar...

Feminism in Jane Erye Feminism is a very contradictory theme throughout literary history. It does not have to be seen as a complete rebellion against men, but can simply represent intelligence and self-worth in a female. This philosophy is shown in many of the works of Charlotte Bronte. She...