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- 2651: Christianity in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment: An Overview
- ... reader to learn about Christianity in Crime and Punishment? Certainly one is presented with enough Christian symbolism, obscure biblical allusion, and allegory to merit volumes of literary analysis and keep thousands of otherwise aimless Russian literature experts employed. However, at its fundamental level, Crime and Punishment presents itself as a novel about contrasts: love and hate, right and wrong, young and old. Most importantly, the novel contrasts the oppression of sin ...
- 2652: Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons": Reasons for A Person's Actions
- ... one's actions can only be gained by seeing and understanding the actions of others through a different point of view. By understanding someone else, one is enabled to compare himself/herself to that person. Literature facilitates this by giving the reader an omniscient view of the characters' actions. These characters may often be archetypes of extreme behavior, as in A Man for All Seasons. These characters allow the reader to ...
- 2653: Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
- Analysis of Pearl in Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote stories that opposed the ideas of Transcendentalism. Since he had ancestors of Puritan belief, Hawthorne wrote many stories about Puritan New England. His most famous story is the Scarlet Letter ...
- 2654: Animal Farm
- ... and author's vision Blair wanted something that may never happen. Equality and free government, a government run by the local people, world freedom and other such dreams. He expresses his immense emotion in his literature. He wanted probably what every one wants but he is one of the few who speak up about it. If we all had his inhibition this might have been accomplished, but it's our own ...
- 2655: All Quiet on the Western Front: Alienation
- ... Paul goes home on leave in Chapter 7. The Kaiser's visit in Chapter 9 adds some hints of Remarque's specific disillusionment with the leaders of his own country. From a broad study of literature and world history, we can see that these older people were not individually to blame for their views. They were simply handing on what was handed on to them. Still, we can also understand why ...
- 2656: An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies
- An Analysis of The Lord of the Flies The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Gerald Golding, is a remarkable piece of literature that discusses many important topics while remaining an enjoyable read. One of the important topics that is discussed in the novel is human nature. Many aspects of human nature is depicted in the book, but ...
- 2657: 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.
- 2658: All Quiet On the Western Front: Themes
- ... source of all things, supporting his themes, Remarque has a seemingly unbiased witness bearing testament to his observations. Remarque can use nature as the judge to condemn war, along with shocking imagery, so that his literature remains without a trace of nationalism, political ill will, or even personal feelings. It should be noted that the nature motif is carried consistently throughout the novel, and that it supports many of the author ...
- 2659: Elie's Wiesel and Night
- ... over there. Haven't you realize it yet? You dumb bastards, don't you understand anything? You're going to be burned. Frizzed away. Turned into ashes. Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. It is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and with his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton ...
- 2660: What Drives A Man
- ... The Longinus: On the Sublime." Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1960. 3. Ravenscroft, A. Chinua Achebe. Great Britain: Longmans, Green & CO LTD, 1969. 4. Serumaga, Robert. "A Mirror of Integration." Protest and Conflict in African Literature (1969) 76 5. Taiwo, Oladele. Culture and the Nigerian Novel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
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