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- 991: The Lord of the Flies: Themes
- ... II and began to examine the defects of their social ethics. Man's purity and innocence was gone. Man's ability to remain civilized was faltering. This change of attitude was extremely evident in the literature of the age. Writers, who through the use of clever symbolism, mocked the tragedy of man's fate. One such writer was William Golding. An author who has seen the destruction of war and despises ...
- 992: Lord of THe Flies: Defects of Society Due to Nature of Individuals
- ... novel, William Golding, was born in Britain, which accounts for the English, cultured characters in the novel. After studying science at Oxford University for two years, he changed his emphasis as a major to English literature. When World War II broke out in 1939, Golding served in the Royal Navy for five years. The atrocities he witnessed changed his view about mankind's essential nature. He came to believe that there ...
- 993: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Early Influences on Huck Finn
- ... the other members, he resigns from the gang. Another person who tries to get Huckleberry Finn to change is Pap, Huck's father. Pap is one of the most astonishing figures in all of American literature as he is completely antisocial and wishes to undo all of the civilizing effects that the Widow and Miss Watson have attempted to instill in Huck. Pap is a mess: he is unshaven; his hair ...
- 994: Archetypes in A Rose for Emily
- Archetypes in A Rose for Emily Archetypes are, by definition, previous images, characters, or patterns that recur throughout literature and though consistently enough to be considered a universal concept or situation. Archetypes also can be described as complexes of experiences that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most ...
- 995: Animal Farm: Political Issues
- ... by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals is achieved. It is Orwell's sharpness of visualization and emotional resonance that have ensured Animal Farm what seems to be a permanent place in literature(Gardner 107). Graham Greene rightly noted in his review that we "become involved in the fate of the animals. We care about them too much merely to translate events into their historical equivalent." There is ...
- 996: 1984: Government's Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens
- ... Farm, supporting the ideas of corruption and an unattainable utopian society which were presented here in Nineteen Eighty-Four. With this novel, Orwell also introduced the genre of the dystopic novel into the world of literature.
- 997: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- ... occurred because of the harsh experiences that both characters have encountered. Now they appear to be stronger people for it. In conclusion, texts do show us that experience often changes people. This is so because literature reflects reality. Conditioning is inescapable as our experiences mould us into the people that we are today. (725 words)
- 998: To Kill a Mockingbird: Summary
- ... Pulitzer prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many characters in this book that I can't name all of them. Here are most of the characters. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra ...
- 999: The Sun Also Rises: A Review
- ... often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it aside to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets what literature is until it slaps him in the face. This book was written, not churned out or word-processed. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I never noticed it until it was brought up in class, maybe ...
- 1000: The Effects of Catch 22
- The Effects of Catch 22 In literature sometimes a character can be helped or hindered by the economic, social, or political conditions of the day. In the novel Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, the character Doc Daneeka illustrates this idea perfectly because ...
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