"By detailed reference to Gulliver's Travels and Silas Marner, identify characteristics of genre. What similarities and differences do the two texts present in terms of their form?" Genre is a French term meaning "type", "sort" or "kind". The literary category o...

Oroonoko cannot be classified as fact or fiction, realism or romance. In the still unshaped field of prose narrative – where a "history" could mean any story, true or false – Behn combines the attractions of three older forms. First, she presents the work as a memoir. According...

SPARTACUS The story of Spartacus is much more than an historical account of the man who led the slave revolt in Rome. It is a story of universal appeal and through the texts this is portrayed as we learn the life story of a relatively minor historical figure who develops into a powerful symbol...

Deconstructing the Novel Okay, I will admit it. When the semester first started I was one of those people who believed that comics were not a serious form of literature. "Comics were those bright, colorful magazines filled with bad art, stupid stories and guys in tights"; this i...

Realism represents life as it really is or was. It can be identified in terms of the effect on the reader. That is, realistic fiction is written to evoke the feelings of the reader and give the sense that its characters and their experiences are a part of reality. The novel Fly Away Peter by David M...

The purpose of this essay is to bring to light the significance of Marie as a character in Albert Camus', 'The Outsider'. Through analysis and criticism, this essay endeavors to reveal her importance as an aid to the better the reader's understanding of the personality of Meur...

J. M. Coetzee's novel Foe is a postmodernist and postcolonial retelling of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Coetzee keeps some the main characters in Robinson Crusoe's novel- Cruso and an African named Friday, but makes two very important additions: the two authors of the novel are Sus...

1. Describe Frankenstein\'s initial response to his creation Frankenstein toiled ceaselessly to create his monster, promising himself that \"exercise and amusement\" would fill his time \"when [the] creation should be complete\" (p. 60). However, once the creature\'s eyes opened with the first ves...

Love, thought as the most divine of all emotions. Through the coarse of human history there has not been a more powerful force. It has made man strive for excellence, kill in jealousy, and go into a trance of madness. The end result of love is said to be marriage, and is the goal of every lover. ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Interested in getting direct access to the psychedelic drugs, Kesey took a job as a psychiatric aide at the same VA hospital. Ingesting various substances and working all night at the mental institution became the inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ac...

Ondaatje's novel, In the Skin of a Lion, reflects the situation of immigrants and the political power structure in Canada earlier in the century. The writer argues that those at the top of society's power hierarchy during that period, from both a political and financial standpoint, were disregarding...

How and with what effect does Kesey introduce the central themes of 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' The central themes in 'One flew over the Cuckoo's nest' are individuality in a mass society, "the combine", machines, emasculation of the patients, Mc...

The Bluest Eye Toni Morisson's novel The Bluest Eye is about the life of the Breedlove family who resides in Lorain, Ohio, in the late 1930s. This family consists of the mother Pauline, the father Cholly, the son Sammy, and the daughter Pecola. The novel's focal point is the daughter, a...

Jorge Amadoi¿½s i¿½Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamoni¿½ is a tale of different stories in the township if Ilhi¿½us, which is a province of the larger city of Bahai, situated in the northern Brazil. This is not a long novel, as epics go; but it is easy to place the details of the narrative: the po...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man traces the growth and development of Stephen Dedalus from infancy to young manhood in Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century, and his gradual decision to cast off all his social, national, and religious constraints and live a life devoted to artistic p...

Numerous feminist disciplines have shown that the interests of women in a patriarchal society are rarely taken into account. The traditional view of history, for example, is that it is the story of great political events; by contrast, feminist historians have tried to uncover evidence of women in th...

Marie Lazzarre-Kashpaw Marie Lazzarre-Kashpaw is an extremely central character in Loise Erdrich's novel, Love Medicine. The collection of short stories chronicles Marie's life from her battles with an abusive nun at age fourteen, to conflicts with her children and grandchildren at the ...

Throughout the course of human literature new styles and eras rise and fall due to the fickleness and uncertainty of the public. Eventually a new book comes along, the perfect book, the book that bridges the gap between two literary eras and starts a new literary movement all in one publication. At ...

The epistolary convention plays an important role in Johann Wolfgang Goethe\'s \"Die Leiden des Jungen Werther.\" Epistolary means the book is written in the form of letters. In this essay, I will examine the way Goethe uses this convention in Werther to introduce different ideas and to change the r...

Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been known as one of the strangest and most psychedelic novel ever written. The plot takes place exclusively in a mental institution, which is almost cut off completely from the outside world because of the despotic management of the w...

Edna's Awakenings Symbolism is one of the most obvious factors in Kate Chopin's Novel, The Awakening. The meaning of each place and objects create major symbols throughout the novel. The ocean is a sense of freedom and solitude. Love is also incredibly symbolic throughout the novel,...

Mary Shelley's masterwork, "Frankenstein," tells the gothic tale of a curious scientist, Victor Frankenstein, yearning to mimic the life-giving act of Mother Nature. His creature does not turn out to be all that he expected, and the story deals with the conflict between Victor and his creature...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses his unique writing style to strengthen the themes expressed in the novel. Throughout the narrative, it is clear that Jake Barnes and his friends do not have much to hang onto; however, on various occasions, the reader can easily see that Jake truly adm...

George Orwell's 1984 George Orwell's 1984 was released in 1949, at a time when the world was still reeling from the effects of World War II. The Soviet Union had just exploded the first atomic bomb, setting off 40 years of the Cold War. Supports of capitalism thus latched onto the book a...

Marquez, Solitude and Imperialism Imperialism is a policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations, Whereas solitude is the state or quality of being alone or remote f...