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...

An exploration of the role of symbolism in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. After reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Gabriel Garcia Márquez&ap...

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,...

Symbolism is the practice of investing things with a symbolic meaning, or by expressing the invisible or intangible by means of visible or sensuous representations; in other words, discussing or explaining a broader, more general topic by linking it symbolically with a specific event in a literary w...

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 ...

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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...

The Power and the Glory by Rich Mullen Dr.Clayton English 102 May 5, 1999 I- introductionII- Setting A. How setting shows the main theme 1. the jail scene 2. the traveling scenes III- Symbolism A. How symbolism shows the main theme 1. liquor ...

The forthcoming of American literature proposes two distinct realistic novels portraying characters that are tested with a plethora of adventures. In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventu...

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...

It is possible to regard The Awakening as a proto-feminist novel which presents women as victims of the inadequate men who surround them and a society which limits their chances to escape from these men. The Awakening not only presents women as victims of inadequate men, but it also portrays stron...

William Golding wrote the novel of 'Lord of the Flies' during and after the Second World War to address the cultural and natural issue of mans inhumanity to man. First published in 1954, 'Lord of the Flies' conveys the image of two nations at war, within the confined and mallea...

Darl's Insanity In the novel As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, Darl sees the world as a corrupt place filled with a crooked society. Through symbolism, Darl's multiple points of view, and simple diction plus illogical syntax, Faulkner shows that Darl views society as corrupt which...

Symbols often accompany characters in the creation of an author's written work. James Joyce, in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, traces the growth and development of Stephen Dedalus as he experiences a life filled with filial, social, educational and religious constraints. As he ...

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...

Subject Jemima J by Jane Green is a classic story of ugly ducklings and swans for the Internet age. Jemima Jones is an employee at the Kilburn Herald, a small London newspaper. As she eats her way through her disappointments, her model thin, fly-by-night flat mates treat her like a maid. Two peo...

The meaning of the character of Beloved in Toni Morrison's Beloved The character of Beloved in the novel Beloved, by Toni Morrison, is symbolic of several important ideas that are essential to a complete understanding of the novel. In the context of the story itself, Beloved is a specter t...

The use of animals in literature as either characters with human qualities or in situations that humans face, has long been a device of authors who hope to creatively convey moral messages in their work. Animals often appear in children's literature such as fables in order to make lessons pleasurab...

After the Russian occupation in Afghanistan, there was some order and a group resembling a government. As time went on, the country slowly broke apart internally. Many tribes and terrorist organizations began to take control of regions and any sort of true government was lost. The Taliban to...

The theme of The Count of Monte Cristo, is one of vengeance, forgiveness, and power. The Count of Monte Cristo, is a story of revenge, and forgiveness all in one. This is a story of extreme revenge. The main Character Dante goes to great lengths so that he can avenge his enemies. He realizes at the ...

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...

Successful and highly praised novels always stand out because the literature has great characters, fascinating and sometime bitter ironies, clashes, conflicts, and noteworthy objectives that rise far above the actual plot structure and embrace much bigger worldly themes. Symbolism is always part of ...

The novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written by Betty Smith, not only gives a picture of what life was like in Brooklyn in the early 1900s, but it also represents a coming of age for its main character, Francie Nolan. I, personally feel that the time period depicted in the novel represents a more in...

Willa Cather in her novel, O Pioneers, written in 1913 tells of the trials, joys and sorrows of a Swedish pioneer, Alexandra, of the...

Piers Anthony's epic novel Bio of a Space Tyrant acts as a macrocosm of the treatment of refugees and their journeys to freedom. At the time of its creation in the early 1980's, the novel represents the Vietnameseboat people? more specifically, but can still stand for what refugees of all times an...