There is a single problem common to Uncle Tom's Cabin and All Quiet on the Western Front, despite the works' having been created in different centuries on different continents and nominally about different subjects. The single, common problem is this: the valuation of one group of human be...

In structure, most novels use a straight-line approach: the plot unfolds from beginning to end. Even stories that start in the middle often return to a point in the past, and then tell events from that time up to the present. Both Catch-22 and Charming Billy, however, differ. They do not use time...

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...

In Flaubert's Parrot, Geoffrey Braithwaite constantly asks the question, "How do we seize the past?" Throughout the course of the novel, Braithwaite briefly mentions moments regarding his late-wife, Ellen. However, he expands upon moments of Madame Bovary. Due to the sudden death ...