"Tess of the D"Ubervilles" is a classic tragedy by Thomas Hardy. ... The emotional and descriptive writing created a good balance that caught the reader's attention and kept the reader interested in the novel. Beautifully written and unforgettably striking, the style of writing unwittingly ensnares the reader. The reader believes that "Tess of the D"Ubervilles" is the best of Hardy's novels. ... Thomas Hardy fans would immensely enjoy the tragic story of "Tess of the D"Ubervilles" because it's full of poetry and is a classic example of Hardy's talent as a writer. ...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

(Dumarier 2) is the famous opening line to the classic novel Rebecca. ... Rebecca is in many ways similar to the story of Cinderella, a classic Gothic Romance (Masterplots 3). ... hough, and that helps the reader relate to her and sympathize for her. ... This keeps the reader trying to figure out if Maxim really loves her or not. ... Dumaurier starts off her novel with elements of a classic Gothic Romance, and ends the story in mystery and suspense. ...

• Word Count: 1831
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The reader can choose whether to read the novel as satire or fantasy. ... In offering readers the opportunity to interpret and imagine, the author keeps the reader straddling between what is fantastical and what is real. ... The narrative voice and its tangents and interruptions break the story line and throw the reader off. ... The entire novel can be thoroughly enjoyed without any understanding of Goldman's satirical motives, and because the storyline falls within the margins of the romantic tradition, it can truly be appreciated as a "classic tale of true love and high adventur...

• Word Count: 1401
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This is commonly related to the readers personal relationship to their interpretation of the poem. ... Poetry has a very therapeutic aspect from both the writers and the readers perspectives. ... An example of a classic poet who has made me feel sensational, Lawrence Lawrence is D. ... Lawrence is making the reader weigh the importance of these commonly significant things. ... His poem "The Reader" combines the natural beauty and sorrow of entropy: The Reader All night I sat reading a book, Sat reading as if in a book Of sombre pages. ...

• Word Count: 1136
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As the protagonist, R portrayed himself to connect with the readers through the use of emotion and empathy. ... Julie is the Juliet to R's Romeo, when R first encounters her he describes her eyes as "classic novels and poetry" (page 18). ... R conveys the reader to identify what he is communicating throughout the thoughts in his mind. This gives the reader an in-depth insight into R's perception on life as a zombie. ... The novel is suitably targeted for a range of various teenager and young adult readers. ...

• Word Count: 1193
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. ... One way that Bronte captured her readers is using empathy. ... Some readers may sympathize with him because he was abused. ... We, as readers, do the same thing that Isabelle did. ... I think that readers will see this book in so many different ways that it will always be a classic. ...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Algy In Oscar Wilde's classic play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", the reader is introduced to an importantly funny man by the name of Algernon. Algernon, a free speaker, makes his opening appearance by asking his servant, Lane, if she had heard him playing the piano and after hearing her r...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In the account from the Bible, readers are not told the details of what Gomer and Hosea felt individually. Therefore, Francine Rivers expertly guides the readers into the lives of two fictional characters as she retells the Biblical story with congruous concepts and themes. ... It is recommended to everyone and hopefully, it will be considered a classic in the future because it deserves to be in that column....

• Word Count: 802
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, characters conflicting with their own personal desires becomes a trend; adding conflict, emotion, and imagery for the reader. ... Ophelia is a prime example of Shakespeare's use of a character to add the classic "Shakespeare open interpretation" for the actors and readers. ...

• Word Count: 668
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Great writers possess abilities to empathize with their readers. ... One example is Jane Austen's traditional classic, Pride and Prejudice. This piece of literature exhibits the time period's life style and significance by giving the readers a feel of what would be of importance to a typical family in relation to the time period. ... Doing this he makes the readers feel like he understands their misery and pain. ...

• Word Count: 1366
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It is the classic theme of forbidden love: Lisabetta wants to be with Lorenzo, but certain social proprieties prevent it. ... Today we live in a supposedly equal opportunity society, but this story makes a reader wonder just how much social progress has really been made. ...

• Word Count: 741
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the classic love poem "I am Not Yours,"" by Sara Teasdale, she writes and compares her desired perfect love to nature's harmony. ... Right from the beginning the reader is aware of Teasdale's romantic situation. ...

• Word Count: 717
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Judge Me Not, Love Me, Seek No Revenge Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers on the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. A young woman (Hester Prynne) comes to this town to find a place to live for her and her husband, bu...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Not only is Willy Loman not a good father and husband, but he furthers his failure by being a classic anti-hero and by failing to achieve the American Dream. ... The reader therefore strives not to be like the protagonist, but rather, unlike him. ... Any reader would desire to be, rather than all that Willy Loman was, all that Willy Loman was not. ...

• Word Count: 976
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

There is not one time in the entire story in which what the reader expects to happen really occurs. ... When the Bunbury first began, the reader and Jack both thought it was just for fun, not serious at all. ... There is not one time in the entire story in which what the reader expects to happen really occurs. ... I would recommend this play to readers who enjoy comedy. ... Bottom of Form 0 Algy In Oscar Wilde's classic play, "The Importance of Being Earnest", the reader is introduced to an importantly funny man by the name of Algernon. ...

• Word Count: 1981
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In Jane Austen's literary classic, "Pride and Prejudice," Austen attempts to influence the audience into sharing her views on women and the importance of marriage. ... Austen tries to persuade the reader to believe that marriage is only meant for those who truly love one another, and those who get married for love are truly happy together.  ... Their purpose was to show the readers the growing anger, tension, loneliness and madness which can evolve between two people who don't wed for love. ...

• Word Count: 1583
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The characteristics of women, the portrayal of the supernatural, and the role of Christianity modeled in Ivanhoe can be analogous to the legends of King Arthur, the epic of Beowulf, and the classic code of chivalry. ... Adventure thrillers and conspiring loved ones add a bit of extra captivation to readers as they catapult into the plot of a romance. ...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5

Much Ado About Nothing From the first line of Much Ado About Nothing until the very end, a reader will discover interesting, comedic, memorable characters. ... Don John is the classic villain in Much Ado About Nothing. ...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Born into a middle class mining family, D.H Lawrence grew up in the environment that was surrounded and supported by the coalmines. His father was a coal miner in the nearby mine. His mother was a schoolteacher that had retired when she started having a family. The family that Lawrence grew up in ...

• Word Count: 2691
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Through Lawrence's description of the Morel family, the reader is given a tour through the psychological evolution of the main character, Paul. ... Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they discussed Freud's theories together. " Sons and Lovers should have appeared just as Freud's theories were begi...

• Word Count: 4216
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School