Contemporary novels bring a new point of view to the actions and the lives in which the struggle, consciously or unconsciously, to dominate, plays a crucial role. Because of the fact that life itself is a game of gaining power over another, these novels depict a deeper analysis of this game. Althoug...

Malcolm Bradbury writes of the novel: "The will to vision, the liberal wish for right reason, the claim of the holiness of the heart's affections – all are consistently confronted with ambiguity." How do you respond to this assessment of Howards End? Perhaps what makes Howard...

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -1914, 1915- draws on many details from Joyce's early life. The novel's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, is in many ways Joyce's fictional double. Like Joyce himself, ...

The world of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is a world ruled by chance. From the very opening chapters, where a watchman is accidentally run over by a train at Moscow's Petersburg station, to the final, climactic scenes of arbitrary destruction when Levin searches for Kitty in a forest beset by lightning,...

1. Born on September 4th, 1908, Richard Wright was born in Roxie, Mississippi (outside of Natchez) on a plantation where his illiterate father was a sharecropper. Wright was raised by his relatives at by the age of 17, he was ready to get out into the world. He headed into Memphis, Tennessee (his...

What does a reading of 'Of Mice and Men' reveal about the culture and experience of migrant workers in the 1930s America? Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. By reading it, the reader learns a lot a...

Often in novels, the life of an author is reflected in his or her literature. For a writer experience can serve not only as a teacher, but also as the foundation of a story line. Some of the most well known authors have used this Romana Clef technique, for example, Charles Dickens in h...

A Character Analysis on two novels: Lord of the Flies & Of Mice and MenAuthors in the Twentieth Century gravitated toward literature that would strengthen the every day man. Presenting protagonist characters and the events that shape their lives as they are, create a certain amount of excellence to...

On Human Humor and Irony:Analysis of "The Kugelmass Episode" by Woody AllenSidney Kugelmass' first wife was Flo with whom he had two dull sons. Their marriage was a failure ending with a divorce. He had to give alimony and support to his children and this eventually burdened him. Kugelmass' second w...

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Examine the construction of identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Colonialism is the consolidation of imperial power through the attempt to govern lands that are now occupied. Postcolonial literature sets out to oppose the colonialist perspective. They develop a pe...

AbstractJohn Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in (1945). He is a novelist of ambition who cherished all works of literature of high imagination as well as craft and experimentation. He turned to literature itself as a source of imagination and aspiration for his fiction.Banville's novels offer ...

In Jane Austen's novel, Mansfield Park, the characterization of the four illustrated families, the Prices, the Crawfords, the Bertrams, and the Rushworths, is used to depict the wide differences which evolved between social classes in nineteenth century England. Jane Austen introduces the main char...

In the times of slavery, there were two popular stereotypes of a black female – the loyal mammy and the promiscuous temptress. The former represented an "adamantine, kind, unattractive, and sexless woman" and it justified "abusive treatment of black women on the grounds that th...

A Hated and Loved hero Have you ever met a smart mouthed, bewildered teen with uncanny wisdom that grabbed people in a way that didn't seem right? Here is an introduction to that distressed teen, Holden Caulfied. Being the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden has intr...

Daniel Defoe is one of the great and well-known writers of English Literature who lived between 1660 and 1731 when the historical changes and cultural developments took place in that period. "Robinson Crusoe" which is first published in 1719, is one of his most important and significant...

1. One Fat English Man 2. The author of the novel is Kingsley Amis, copyright 1963. 3. Kingsley Amis was a British writer from England. 4. Major Characters Roger Micheldene is the man the book focuses primarily upon. He is "a shortish fat Englishman of forty (6)" and a publisher. O...

Stephen CraneToday in modern America, it has become almost impossible to avoid the tales of horror that surround us almost anywhere we go. Scandals, murders, theft, corruption, extortion, abuse, prostitution, all common occurrences in this day in age. A hundred years ago however, people did not se...

In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, the drastic change in character and morals that Edna Pontellier goes through is dramatized by the contrast and connections made between her and her best friend Adele Ratignolle. While Edna evolves into a character that becomes more engrossed with freedom of sp...

Frankenstein Protagonist: The protagonist in the novel is Victor Frankenstein. He is the main character who contends with the conflict in the novel. His decision to create life provides a problem that he attempts to escape but eventually marks his death. Antagonist: The antagonist ...

Frankenstein Protagonist: The protagonist in the novel is Victor Frankenstein. He is the main character who contends with the conflict in the novel. His decision to create life provides a problem that he attempts to escape but eventually marks his death. Antagonist: The antagonist ...