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- 1081: The Stone Angel and The Fifth Business: Analysis of the Main Characters
- The Stone Angel and The Fifth Business: Analysis of the Main Characters Every piece of literature that has been written uses words, which have concrete meaning in everyday life. As a result of that it cannot ever be completely abstract. Theme is what sustains its link with living, by giving it ...
- 1082: Twain's" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Satire
- Twain's" A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" Satire The art of literature has long been used as a vehicle for entertaining the masses. However, many stories have another purpose, such as expressing the writer's feelings on social customs from years gone bye or at the time ...
- 1083: Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
- ... the main character into some ritual, into a more grown-up flavour of life. In addition, both Bradbury and Faulkner seem to have an innate distrust of machines and technology, a somewhat common theme in literature. Both Dandelion Wine and "That Evening Sun" end with the image of a setting sun- perhaps foreshadowing technological disaster or otherwise. (Rosenman 85) However, these themes are quite common in a literary sense and may ...
- 1084: The Metamorphosis: Patriarchy
- ... from a very early age. The practice of having the son of a family to look after his parents, as mentioned later, is common to both Japanese and Chinese cultures.) In our studies of European literature, we can see that patriarchy, that is, the supremacy of the father in a family and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line, plays a major part in family life. However, the ...
- 1085: The Scarlet Letter: Light and Darkness
- The Scarlet Letter: Light and Darkness Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is one of the most analyzed and most discussed literary works in American literature and for good reason. Hawthorne's ambiguity and his intense use of symbols have made this work incredibly complex and incredibly bothersome. In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses many symbols to give insight into ...
- 1086: Jane Eyre: Ladies First
- ... Ladies First Throughout history women have played important roles in society. Women have gone through much adversity to get where they are today. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontλ are some the pioneers of women's literature. Each shows their different aspects of a women's role in society in their books Emma by Austen and Jane Eyre by Brontλ. In both of these books the author shows how a woman deals ...
- 1087: Summary of Gulliver's Travels
- ... him to leave after his discussions with them. This trip reveals the savageness and the cruelty of humans, and expresses the author's idea of a perfect civilization. This story is a wonderful work of literature and I think that it should certainly be taught to students. The story is very perplexing and I barely understood the whole of it when I read certain parts of it over again. It was ...
- 1088: Comparison of the Characters in "A Doll's House" and "The Stranger"
- ... the need to appear superior around other people. This form of adjusting one's personality or mask to suit a situation in life, is also common among characters in novels, dramas, and other forms of literature. In certain characters it is evident in the novel The Stranger and the play A Doll's House . In some instances it is quite easy to notice but other times it may be difficult to ...
- 1089: As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner
- ... uses Darl's empathy and intuition to subtly bring in this foreshadowing and the feelings between the brothers. NOTE: Received an A-, this class is equal to the American College Course of sophomore English/ World Literature.
- 1090: Crying of Lot 49
- ... inability to decipher symbols relates to our inability to increase the communicative entropy of our world. Nevertheless, The Crying of Lot 49 succeeds in actively involving the reader within the text, a hallmark of postmodern literature. Duyfhuizen, Bernard. "Disrupting Story in The Crying of Lot 49," Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Boston: Little,Brown, 1976. Hipkiss, Robert M. The American Absurd. New York: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Johnston, John ...
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