Frankenstein Unbelievably Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein at the age of eighteen. ... The first Gothic characteristic of Frankenstein is evident in its grotesque elements. ... Another characteristic of the gothic writing in the novel Frankenstein is the component of mystery. ... A characteristic that is in many Gothic novels is the desolate environment. ... The major characteristic of Romanticism that Mary Shelley uses is the examination of senses and inner feelings. ...

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Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby perfectly illuminates the American life of the Jazz Age. It stoof the test of time and has earned the distinction as one of the truly great American novels. ... With the coming of Prohibition, the law banning the manufacture, sale, and distribution of liquor in the U.S. from 1920-1933, there came a new era- one of organized crime. ... Many of the characters in his novels are based on people from his life. ... All of these qualities- carelessness, hypocracy, aesthetic values, "intellectualism", and power- Tom so blatently diplays, are cha...

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Early on in the novel, Gene's relationship towards Phineas, also known as Finny, seems to be defined purely by simple envy. ... If Finny were to be a soldier, this characteristic would not be an advantage, but would be a disadvantage to him, since he would always be thinking spontaneously about mischief, breaking rules, and what wild act he could do next. ... Throughout the novel, Knowles portrayed Gene as always being a superior student, but a poor athlete in the start. ... The coming of age Gene underwent throughout the course of the novel proved that he would make the better soldier, n...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. ... In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. ... Finally, as the aged, venerated Widow of Windsor, she became a universal icon, prompting the nostalgic worldwide spectacles of the Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897. ... In the followin...

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This makes it very difficult to determine one, or even a few characteristics that define ethnic identity. In the case of many of these novels, the task of defining ethnic identity is not so complicated. ... The main character's family in this novel was Chinese and represented the first generation of immigrants for this family. ... In this novel, the main character spends much of his life on an Indian Reservation. ... This rejection of influence from other ethnicities seemed to be quite a common theme in all of the novels reviewed in our selection, but most abundant in Coming of Age in Mi...

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The characteristics of the American hero are similar in both Indiana Jones and Natty Bumppo. ... "Cooper began writing at age thirty to demonstrate to his wife that he could write a better novel than the one he was reading to her" (Encarta NP). ... In this novel, Natty is called Hawkeye because of his ties to the Mohicans. ... Throughout the many adventures of Natty Bumppo, he always had many of the same characteristics. ... Indiana uses wits in this novel in order to defeat his enemy, which is a prime characteristic of the American hero. ...

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American Psycho' deals explicitly with sex and violence, the main style of the novel is the satirisation of the American Dream, as twisted by the excesses of the 1980s. ... People are described, not by physical characteristics or personality, but by the designer-label clothes they wear: "Dibble is wearing a subtly striped double-breasted wool suit by Canali Milano, a cotton shirt by Bill Blass, a mini-glen-plaid woven silk tie byBill Blass Signature and he's holding a Missoni Uomo raincoat. ... The plot analyses the unrest and cultural...

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Remarque also ties in many smaller sub topics within the theme to display other characteristics not usually noticed by people not involved directly in the War. ... The novel is set at the beginning of World War I. ... The soldiers are often enlisted at very young ages and sent in to live amongst people they hardly know at the beginning. ... The fact that Remarque told of all the horrifying events makes this novel very different from most War novels. ... To achieve a feeling of indifference towards such a harsh reality as death is something that is very hard to imagine, but the reader does ...

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The most obvious example of a childhood experience coming out in a Bronte writing is Charlotte's representation of the Lowood School in Jane Eyre compared to her experiences at Cowan Bridge. ... In "Jane Eyre" while at Lowood, Helen Burns becomes a good friend and even a mother type figure to Jane even though they are close to the same age. ... One Byronic characteristic Rochester, Heathcliff and Branwell share is their love for a woman they can't have. ... This seclusion from society is a very common characteristic found in a Byronic hero. ... This essay has shown that thr...

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(Novel Guide) You said I killed you- you haunt me then! ... Again quoted in an article from the Novel Guide analysis, they state that supernatural events happen in the beginning of the novel and continue until the very end. ... These themes and instances are tied to a spirituality and life-after-death theme in the novel. ... She strengthens the plot, characters, and setting throughout the novel through situations such as projection of self on other's (living vicariously), past short comings magnified and transferred to others in the future, and basic other psychoanalytical staples s...

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Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... Lee makes use of several images and allegories throughout the novel to symbolize racial conflict. ... The central symbol of the novel, the mockingbird, further develops the theme of racial prejudice. ... To Kill a Mockingbird also can be read as a coming-of-age story featuring a young girl growing up in the South and experiencing moral awakenings. ... Atticus is clearly the hero of the novel, and functions as a role model for his children. ...

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Huck's skepticism of society, and the values held by the older generation, is apparent from the beginning of the novel. ... Free of the constraints of a normal existence, Huck is able to approach life in a way that most other kids his age can only dream of doing. ... For example, were it not for Jim's intuition about the coming storm, at the beginning of the novel, Huck may have been caught in it on the river, and possibly drowned. ... Though he is the same age as Huck, Buck's judgment and independent thinking abilities have been destroyed by the Grangerford's feud with ...

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It can be described as an easily noticed characteristics belonging to any given individual, or shared by all members of a particular social category or group. ... In these instances one is part of a minority (e.g., by race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation), or if one has identifications with multiple groups (e.g., by being biracial), or if one is pulled by conflicting messages (e.g., those coming from the media and the family), an identity crisis is likely to emerge. ... As the setting of both novels involves the country America, which is far advanced and even has a man of colour as its presi...

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Her reign will ever bear this distinguishing characteristic of her sex."2 In its own right the reign of Catherine the Great was impressive, but it was made all the more important because she was a women.3 The mere fact that Catherine II, a small German princess without hereditary claim to the throne, ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 amid the loyalty of the great mass of the people, and the respect and admiration of her neighbours, is sufficient proof of the force of her character. ... She set about composing herself for the ceremony that was to mark the ultimate stage in the transformation of a...

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Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ... Yet, she doesn't find her definition of love until she is about forty years of age. ... Unlike Joe, Tea Cake does not silence Janie but actually listens to her and even reads into her expressions, something that Joe completely ignored.Another characteristic that distinguishes Tea Cake from Janie's previous husbands is his wil...

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They were no longer living a life that would become progressively easier as they aged. ... Through out the entire novel they are constantly traveling in efforts to attain their respective goals, Huck to escape Widow Douglas" attempt to "civilize" him and Jim in search of his family and his freedom. ... What really attracts the reader's attention in this work is the concepts behind these two traveling men--their energy, their resilience, their superior wit over the townsfolk and the way they satirically present it--these qualities construct the idea that life on the road brings out the h...

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This idea occurs throughout Achebe's novel. ... Once again, he finds ways to repress the characteristics of his father. ... Author and critic, Biodun Jeyifo, voices her concerns about the sexism in Achebe's novel. ... In Umuofio, age is respected and representative of wisdom. ... One of the climactic points in the novel arises at the funeral of the tribal leader, Ezeudu. ...

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"Stoker wrote about fantasies like sex and suggestive situations even though he lived in a very conservative time period, and yet people showed great interest in his morbid novel" (Fisher 64). ... A man with multiple female sexual experience is also a desire held by most men of all ages in all time periods(Plamino 1). ... That is the primary reason why his novel Dracula became famous" (Worley 172) Plays and books during the nineteenth century and before dealt mainly with comedy and romance. ... It is read about in novels and stories. ... They possess similar characteristic...

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" Here, Ralph has taken on a responsibility well above his age, plus with a very unlikely outcome. ... As each of the boys symbolize certain characteristics, "the beast" embodies the unknown. ... The assumptions made from Ralph that Jack and his group were coming to retrieve the conch, were false. ... In this novel, good and evil is represented in two different groups as the Neanderthals and the new people. ...

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Both novels were written at times of major change in human history. ... The characters in both novels have resemblances to each other, in LOTF they are all children, while in Frankenstein they are all adults, again except the odd one. In both they are all the same age group. ... Victor, in a similar way shares some of the characteristics that Jack does, but not in the same vane, less extreme, you could say. ...

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In the richly textured novel A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, author Michael Dorris splendidly weaves a narrative in which the meaningful stories of three generations of women are told. ... This one event shapes and molds their characters, explaining their characteristics and the ways they act. ... In the case of Aunt Ida, she had the misfortune of coming in contact with her Aunt Clara. ... Though both characters do not connect on time, ethnicity, age, or physical appearance, they both amazingly share the same struggles in their lifetime, and more importantly, persevere. ...

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In the Mordecai Richler novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, that is certainly true for the main character, Duddy. ... This characteristic could be traced back to when Duddy was very young. ... But you"re coming of age soon and you"ll have to choose. ...

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The Education Act of 1870 made elementary education compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 13. ... To some writers, the alienation they felt and depicted was an exploration of the individual sensibility in a world which it was felt was becoming ever more standardized and uniform, an age of the masses. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made him the explorer of the transition of lives and minds from the age of traditional values and religious certa...

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Despite these wishes, the movie The Joy Luck Club, originally a novel written by Amy Tan raises the questions of oppression and power in the lives of four mothers and their daughters. ... Due to his background, he well portrayed the Chinese stereotypical characteristics (e.g., tiger mom, strict on their child and plays mahjong while gossiping) which well illustrates each character's hardship, oppression, power dynamics that they faced. ... An-Mei faced social destruction and family's discrimination at an early age which also allowed her to conform to a male-dominating culture and cho...

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81 But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 82 Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 83 I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; 84 I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, 85 And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 86 And in short, I was afraid. 87 And would it have been worth it, after all, 88 After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, 89 Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, 90 Would it have been worth while, 91 To have bitten off the matter with a smile, 92...

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