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 ...

Joseph Andrews In Fielding's Joseph Andrews you see a variety of characters. They range from the shallow, vain and proud characters like Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop to the innocent, sincere, and virtuous like Joseph and Fanny. The presence of Lady Booby, and all of the people like her that...

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...

"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...

Coleridge "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world," Albert Einstein was once quoted as saying. This particular journey of the mind not only deadens the boredom of existence, but also may lead one on an intellectual discovery...

It can be said that in the production of \"Clueless\", Amy Heckerling has used Jane Austen\'s \"Emma\" as a stimulus. However, it is evident that through her transformation of purpose, context and values that \"Clueless\" is a text in its own right and should not be overlooked as an insightful view ...

Society is inevitable. It will always be there as a pleasure and a burden. Society puts labels on everything as good or bad, rich or poor, normal or aberrant. Although some of these stamps are accurate, most of them are misconceptions. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley this act of erring by ...

EssayEmma and CluelessIn comparing the two texts Emma and Clueless, it is apparent that the contexts have caused important changes, transformations, between the two texts. Both texts are based along the story-line of a young woman, with fanciful notions, who is rich, beautiful and essentially good-n...

The classic anti-war, anti-establishment, anti- (insert current debatable issue/action here) novel, Catch-22, follows the life of Yossarian, the main character, and his fellow Army Air Corps officers, stationed on an imaginary island off the coast of Italy, through a period during World War II. The...

Margaret Atwood: 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses' (1994) BIOGRAPHY • Born in Ottawa, Ontario, 1939 • Studied at the University of Toronto, then took her masters degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts, in 1962 • Canada's most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes shor...

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. ...

The novel "City of Glass" depicts the story of Daniel Quinn, a man who lost his wife and son and now has become attached to a detective case that brings new people into his life because of one phone call that he had picked up. Throughout the story the question remains in the readers head as to why d...

Tom Wolfe's book, The Bonfire of the Vanities, certainly can be seen as a reflection of the attitudes, concerns and events of the latter part of the twentieth century. Tom Wolfe says himself that his aim for this book was to write a "realistic novel that crammed as much as of New York City between c...

Lord of the flies When set apart from ordered society, people revert from civilized behaviour to savagery. This is especially true in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, where many aspects of the island society represent the war and destruction occurring in the real world. At first, William Golding...

Joseph Conrad: An Innovator in British LiteratureJoseph Conrad's innovative literature is influenced by his experiences in traveling to foreign countries around the world. Conrad's literature consists of the various styles oftechniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literat...

Feminism in Jane EryeFeminism 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 uses i...