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- 421: Edgar Allen Poe's Symbolism of Death in "The Fall of the House of Usher"
- ... decay just like the narrator viewed the death of the Ushers. Poe is "alive" in the minds of his readers and they are still horrified by his work. Bibliography 1. Abel, Darrel. Introduction. The Science Fiction of Edgar Allen Poe. By Edgar Allen Poe. Penguin Books, 1976. 2. "death". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 1992 edition. 3. Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. The Viking Press ...
- 422: A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
- ... novel Gone to Soldiers, because it kept my attention with realistic descriptions of people with whom I began to really understand their feelings and thoughts. Other students should read this book if they like historical fiction, because it is so captivating. Piercy uses the individual as a piece of the whole picture, important but not the entirety of the work which makes this book so intriguing.
- 423: Critique of "The Invisible Man"
- ... simple reason, he was one of society's nameless victims. The author of The Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison. He was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician. He wrote many short stories and fiction for magazines. The Invisible Man won him the Nation Book Award and the Russwurm Award. He was a charter member of the National Council on the Arts and Humanities. He died in 1994. The main ...
- 424: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... the schism between God and man may be, God's grace is greater still. Works Cited and Consulted Barnhart, Joe and Linda Kraeger. Dostoyevsky on Evil and Atonement: The Ontology of Personalism in his Major Fiction. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship. New York: Macmillan, 1959. Cameron, Norman, trans. Freedom and the Tragic Life: A Study in Dostoyevsky. By Vyecheslav Ivanov. New York: Noonday ...
- 425: Brave New World: Comparing Life In the World State With Life In the US Today
- ... State With Life In the US Today By Aldous Huxley Prompt: Compare life as Huxley described it in the World State with life in the United States today. For more than half a century, science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. A ...
- 426: Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": A Review
- ... the reader to bring a more personal approach to the reading and understanding of the work. This, too, is a fascinating aspect of the novel. Many critics believe that Portrait is an autobiographical piece of fiction. Many similarities exist between the lives of Stephen and Joyce. The strong religious upbringing of these Irishmen, their financial hardships, and the family life of each male is strikingly similar. Each attended the same schools ...
- 427: 1984: Summary
- ... this was not acceptable for Party citizens. This was part of the denial of pleasure. In order for the people to believe the Party's perversions of the truth, the Party had to make their fiction reality. The Party slaughtered people ,burned books, shredded and altered documents in order to control information. Winston Smith's job was to alter old government documents, birth certificates and many other things. Winston was a ...
- 428: Kahlil Gibran
- ... different subjects which are all related to subjects in everyday life; for example love, hate etc.. The book also contains a series of illustrations created by the author himself. The book is based slightly on fiction, but the topics discussed in the poetry are all very realistic. If a person read the poetry today it would still be relative to the things happening around us. The poetry is in composition form ...
- 429: Biological Determinism
- ... the development of western medicine. In Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century Mary Shelley's theme of scientific interference with the fundamental mysteries of life makes Frankenstein the prototype of numerous works of science fiction. She creates the typical representative of her time. Frankenstein is a great medical scholar, exaggeration of Shelley's simple student. A "Frankenstein Effect," the suite of moral and ethical problems encountered when man tries to ...
- 430: The Yellow Wallpaper: A Woman's Struggle
- ... makes the reader question the innocence and simplicity of what is related to him. Works Cited Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Signet Classic, 1960 Kennedy, X.J. and Dan Gioia. Literature: an Introduction to Fiction, poetry, and Drama. Sixth Edition. New York: Harper Collins College Publishers Inc., 1995. Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. Vol. 9. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1983. Hodges, Elaine R. Short Story Criticism}. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale Research ...
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