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- 501: An Analysis of Brave New World
- ... societies are much worse than those of today. In a utopian society, the individual, who among others composes the society, is lost in the melting pot of semblance and world of uninterest. In the science fiction book Brave New World, we are confronted with a man, Bernard Marx. Bernard is inadequate to his collegues. So he resorts to entertaining himself most evenings, without the company of a woman. This encourages his ...
- 502: The Grapes of Wrath: No One Man, But One Common Soul
- ... suffering would never occur again (Critical 1). Steinbeck shows in The Grapes of Wrath that there is no one man, but one common soul in which we all belong to. The subject of Steinbeck's fiction is not the most thoughtful, imaginative, and constructive aspects of humanity, but rather the process of life itself (Wilson 785). Steinbeck has been compared to a twentieth century Charles Dickens of California; a social critic ...
- 503: The Fall of the House of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
- ... Ungar Publishing company, 1984 Levin, Harry The Power of Blackness New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1967 Levine, Stuart Edgar Allan Poe: Seer and craftsman, Deland, Everett / Edwards, inc. 1972 MacAndrew, Elizabeth The Gothic Tradition in Fiction, New York, Columbia University Press, 1979 Neilson, Keith Master Plots; volume 4 Englewood Cliffs, Salem Press, 1985 The Norton Anthology of American Literature W. W. Noton and company, 1995 "Imagery of The Supernatural in The ...
- 504: Tribulation and Comedy in Lucky Jim
- ... holds true for any person. What better way to cope with adversity than a strong sense of humour. References Amis, K. (1953). Lucky jim. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Ltd. Bradford, R. (1989). Kingsley amis-(modern fiction). Great Britain: Edward Arnold. Gardner, P. (1981). Kingsley amis. Boston: Twayne Publishers. McDermott, J. (1989). Kingsley amis: an english moralist. New York: St. Martin's Press. Salwak, D. (1992). Kingsley amis: a modern novelist. Great ...
- 505: Jim's Role in Huckleberry Finn
- ... can't experience it. Adler says, "We learn from experiencethe experience that we have in the course of our daily lives. So too, we can learn from the vicarious, or artistically created, experiences that fiction produces in our imaginations." Jim reveals several things about himself through his actions and by what others say about his actions. I would like to examine a couple of scenes involving Jim to show some ...
- 506: Jane Eyre, The Feminist Tract"
- ... realizes the worth of women. Bibliography Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Penguin Group,1982 Craig, G. Armour. "The Unpoetic Compromise: On the Relationship Between Private Vision and Social Order in the Nineteenth- Century English Fiction." Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism. Ed. L. Harris and E. Tennyson. Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1985. 61-62 Gaskell, E. The Life of Charlotte Bronte. England: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1975 London, Bette. "The Pleasure of ...
- 507: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related to Society Today
- ... floating down the Mississippi, Huck has an opportunity to exercise his gift for lying. The boy enjoys mendacity; he lies for the sake of lying and keeps the reader turning the page piling on one fiction after another. Just before the runaways get started, Huck visits a neighboring town to get information and encounters a farmer's wife. He is dressed in an old dress and is pretending to be a ...
- 508: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... mission was to collect information bout their customs for a new book that he planned to start. He returned in November that same year. His plans changed, Sam abandoned his idea and started a new fiction book called The Gilded Age. It was well known and loved by many people, jus like all of his other write'ins of course. Lov'in England so much, Sam returned there with his family ...
- 509: Summary of Tracy's "Home Brewed, the Unauthorized Biography of Drew Carey"
- ... would be an interesting guy to meet. It would to be fun to talk with him about his wild college days. I would like to know how where he got his comedic abilities. Reading non-fiction books take more time because the characters and events are more complex. They are based upon real situations. Also, after I read some sentences in the book, I felt I had to go back and ...
- 510: Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Romantic Style of Writing
- ... grew very fond of writing and published his first book of poetry in 1827 at the age of sixteen. Poe is considered one of the first nineteenth century writers to establish aesthetic principles regarding short fiction stories as a high art, and one of the forefathers in the Romantic Movement. Poe stressed the idea of a well developed imagination through the identification of the characters, and the use of symbolism to ...
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