Essays Tagged: "Novels"

Stephen Edwin King - The King Of Terror

and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen Kingwho is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types ofwritings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, ... autobiographies, children's books, and shortstories. While Stephen King might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, someof his best work that has been published are his short stories such as ...

(7 pages) 157 0 2.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Animal Farm

monly known to write about political issues. Orwell has been highly acclaimedand criticized for his novels, including one of his most famous, Animal Farm. In a satiricalform, George Orwell uses person ... ed farm animals to express his views on stalinism in thenovel Animal Farm.Throughout Orwell's early novels, democratic socialism kept the author from totaldespair of all humans(Greenblatt 104). After ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Individualism and Belonnging to the Family in Anne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb

Individualism and Belonging to the FamilyAnne Tyler's novels The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb are concerned with the family and individualis ... saved their marriage.In conclusion, Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist and Searching for Caleb are novels dealing with individualism, isolation, family, and conformity. Furthermore, two characters in ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

David Copperfield is a novel of "Passionate jealousy, sniveling hypocrisy, cold hearted, sexual degradation, sexual exploitaion and much morefff

f joytempered and mellowed wisdom" Discuss.David Copperfield is probably one of the most successful novels of all time. I believe it has inspired many readers to a full life with great success. The no ...

(5 pages) 78 1 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

rtsmouth and spent most of his childhood in London and Kent, both of which appear frequently in his novels. He started school at the age of nine, but his education was interrupted when his father, an ... elists as Henry Fielding and Tobias Smollett, and their influence can be discerned in Dickens's own novels. In 1827 Dickens took a job as a legal clerk. After learning shorthand, he began working as a ...

(3 pages) 76 0 3.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

"No Longer at Ease" by Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Writer

ian writer claims he wrote with specific purposes, having goals he wished to accomplish through his novels. In this paper I will use two of his works to demonstrate the ways in which Achebe held true ... e the ways in which Achebe held true to his intentions. I will use themes and scenes present in his novels to demonstrate that he does present an accurate view of daily Ibo village life in Things Fall ...

(7 pages) 188 1 3.3 Nov/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

The Tragedy Within The Romance (Winter's Tale)

ealogy" of writing, that the romance we know today was created through the combination of the Greek novels and Shakespearean comedies. This alliance between the two genres is apparent in Shakespeare's ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Book Review of "The Color Purple"

es of Celie to illustrate her social criticism.The Color Purple is not written in the style of most novels. The author does not tell us everything about the characters, the setting, and why the charac ...

(2 pages) 286 4 3.8 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A time of prosperous change

serves to be mentioned. Both in the Critical Survey of Long Fiction and in Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon Weldon is mentioned with great honor and respect. Anna Erics ... ers say and what they do'(Magill 3474). On the other hand Ericson has more of a formula to Weldon's novels unlike the Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 'The Weldon narrator is usually omniscient; she i ...

(4 pages) 59 1 4.1 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Marriage: The Perfect Ending to Pride and Prejudice

ulfill themselves as individual, but also affirm the principle values of society. As in many of her novels, this marriage at the end of the novel shows us Jane Austen's ideal view of marriage as a soc ... en's Pride and Prejudice are not all miserable by the end of the novel. Happy marriages in Austen's novels do occur. Sherry illustrates this point. The right people eventually come together, for examp ...

(8 pages) 323 1 4.6 Jan/1995

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Isolation in "Lord of the Flies" and "Heart of Darkness"

This is an awsome essay! Feel free to use it. Great comparison of books, excellent work.novels. Throughout Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness the importance of restraintis greatly str ... n to Jack and his animalistic tribe.Therefore, it is evident how important restrain is in these two novels. The ability to do somay be the difference between life and death, and the one who can restra ... hmost is the one who prevails in the end.In conclusion, it is evident that the authors of these two novels wrote about theirown life experiences because they were able to draw emotion form things that ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.3 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

The Success of Michael Crichton's Novels in the Media Industry

The Success of Michael Crichton's Novels in the Media Industry One only has to look at the astonishing opening weekend of Param ... lue to Hollywood of an exclusive club of best-selling writers (Eller 3). Michael Chrichton's novels all have their similarities. He seems to follow a pattern which is working very well for him. ... a pattern which is working very well for him. He picks a hot-button subject and uses it to lend his novels a glossy veneer of topicality. He casts his novels with some really detestable villains so at ...

(3 pages) 43 0 3.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

A review of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

The story Of Mice and Men is one of the most well known novels throughout the world. This very popular book is a favorite of many people. So many people can ...

(2 pages) 124 0 4.2 Oct/1995

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Analys swift in the story of Gulliver's travels.

uld be a deeper message concealed, between the lines somewhere. The book is divided into four minor novels. The first is about the Lilliputian's the second about Gulliver visits the giants, the third ... e think but according to him lower then the animals.There is a topic that runs through all the four novels, which is that the human race often takes things forgranted not considering that there could ...

(3 pages) 169 2 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

en. Harper Lee often offers suttle remedies that would put an end to the constant injustices in the novels diverse society.The greatest case of injustice involves Tom Robinson who was falsely accused ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Awakening" by Kate Chopin vs. "A Dolls House " by HEnrik Ibsen

on each other.Taking the stories for their literary qualities alone, they are both quite good. Both novels are very well written. Chopin and Ibsen developed their characters well, used excellent image ...

(3 pages) 111 0 3.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Willa Sibert Cather

ry writer. She wrote about the qualities of courage, sensitivity, and perseverance. Most often, her novels and short stories took place in rural townships. She was born sometime in 1873, in her grandm ... . Consequently, she resigned to devote her full attention to writing stories.Willa also wrote other novels such as: Alexander's Bridge in 1912, O Pioneers in 1913, The Song of the Lark in 1915, and My ...

(3 pages) 58 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

illustrating the joy of readers in hating Piggy's character, in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies

In many novels there's usually a character the reader loves tohate. Whether that character be a loser, a lon ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

The Friendship of "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas

o anything for you. Friendship has been shown throughout history in the form of stories, poems, and novels. In the book , The Three Musketeers, you find yourself reading about the friendship and the a ...

(3 pages) 81 1 3.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Congenial and obstructive on david copperfield - charles dickens

Dickens is known world wide for his unique style of writing. Dickens, in his writing seperates his novels into two different societies, the congenial and the obstructive. In David Copperfield, Dicken ... prophecies of memory...In this sense David Copperfield, the least socially integrated of Dickens's novels, is the most 'real'. In part, as with Proust's Marcel, this is because with D.C. (David Coppe ...

(8 pages) 64 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens