A Feminist Reading of D.H. Lawrence's The Rocking Horse Winner The man that does not know sick women does not know women. - S. Weir Mitchell "The Rocking Horse Winner" is the story of a boy's gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator r...

The Rocking Horse Winner" is the story of a boy's gift for picking the winners in horse races. An omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy whose family is always short of money. His mother is incapable of showing love and is obsessed with the status that material wealth can provide. This p...

Plot Summary Isaac Campion is a novel by Janni Howker, set deep in the heart of the British empire in Southern England around the town of Hard Acre, a fast growing industrial town over looked by the Campions Horse farm on the outskirts. The family had emigrated from Ireland a...

The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck is a book about the Great Depression, and one poor sharecropper family's struggle to survive the worst deprivations that American society had to offer. Set in the 1930's, in America's "Dust Bowl," it is the tale of the Joad family, a large clan of poor Okla...

1) Ike repudiated his inheritance for many reasons. The catalyst of this is Sam Fathers. After Ike's parents died he was basically taken under the advisement of Sam Fathers he built Ike's belief foundation. He taught Ike to respect the land and that nobody could own it, also that slavery was evil. F...

Kate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800's. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of death...

1. The Good Earth 2. Pearl S. Buck 1931 3. ChinaUSA 4. Characters: Wang Lung: Wang Lung is a farmer who is at first very humble and content in his home then later becomes a proud, wealthy man who is always troubled in his home. In the beginning of the story he seems happy living...

The play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller takes place almost entirely in the head of its main protagonist, Willy Loman. The play continually evolves through a series of flashbacks to the past and flashes of what Willy is actually experiencing in the present. This allows the viewer ...

In Shakespeare's The Tempest and The Merchant of Venice, there are female characters that inhabit Shakespeare's comedic world who seem to enjoy a greater degree of autonomy and personal power than one would expect in a patriarchal society. In The Tempest, Shakespeare depicts Miranda with ...

?Githa Hariharan's debut novel, "The Thousand Faces of Night" articulates the problems of women, the basics of Indian Mythology. Hariharan links the plight of her women characters with the Indian myths as Mahabaratha, (Sanskrit stories etc.) to the gods, goddesses and legendary heroines in the ...

Tolstoy wrote, in What is Art? " If a man is infected by the author's condition of soul, if he feels this emotion and this union with others, then the object which has effected this is art: but if there be no such infection, if there be not this union with the same author and others who a...