The novels both deal with the idea of fate and the role it plays in the lives of the characters. ... The reader is witness to a chain of events ; from the impressment, to the soup incident , to the lies of Claggart that lead up to the inevitable death of Billy; as one critic noted " Melville constructed this novel with the inevitability of fate itself"( Gunn, 4). ... Ahab's obsession with the whale stems in part from the injury that it caused him but also from the fact that he views the whale as " all that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all the truth wit...

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Both novels were written at times of major change in human history. ... In LOTF the beast is a dead parachute brought to life by the children's imaginations, while the monster in Frankenstein is created from dead body parts and brought to life by Frankenstein, previously just being a dream or imagination like LOTF. ... Victor, by creating a life with old body parts is playing "God" in a sense, at a time when religion was a key part in peoples live. ... Supposed to bring back life, this after he lost his mother to scarlet fever. ... But the monster soon became part of reality as victor...

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Introduction The social and historical contexts of both novels are quite different as they are set in different centuries where society and values differ. ... The social and historical contexts of this novel are very different from those in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... A parallel can be drawn from Harper Lee's life. ... Both novels are told from an adult perspective. For example, both authors have written their novel 20 or 30 years after their childhood. ...

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"The victor belongs to the spoils" -Anthony Patch (p.188) "There is only one lesson to be learned from life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life." ... The book is crowded with observations on American social life in the l920's. ... The characters hurry back to life as usual with all its money and booze. ... Racism is introduced in this novel with the character of Joseph Bloeckman. ...

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(Tan 128) This quotation is important because it clearly describes how severely that incident affected Rose's life, and therefore it would have to be an event that she would need to overcome to move on with her life. Rose is now overcome with fear, from violent experiences through her life, which will cause for her to be fearful towards trying to discover her true identity. ... A second example of a relationship which affects Celie's life is the one she develops with females, such as Sofia and Shug. First of all, the relationship Celie created with Sofia was different from any ot...

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The patriotism in Tolstoy is reflected in his novel. ... Tolstoy celebrated life in this novel. ... The greatness of the novel lies in its affirmation of life in all its bewildering variety." ... A new and now mature Pierre says in the novel, "While there is life there is happiness." ... Religion was a significant theme in the novel. ...

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Buck's time with Judge Miller is his least stressful period in the entire novel. ... Although Buck is safe and comfortable in in his life with Judge Miller, he has very little power in his life. ... As the narrator states: "He had learned the lesson, and in all his afterlife he never forgot it. ... The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. ... Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to...

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This was his first working experience in life, which was good because it also taught him lessons about life (384). ... Over the years that he was alive he wrote many poems and novels. ... The novel "Sons and Lovers" should be read as just as that, a novel, and not a complete autobiographical work. ... Some of the abuses throughout the novel were instances where Mr. ... It is known that through out the coarse of the novel, " Lawrence is hard on women and often cannot shed his Oedipal skin by admitting, denying, and then readmitting his mothers strangle hold on his life" (Bloom 87). ...

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During the nineteenth century, England was abundant with great novel writers. ... Mary Ann did not have many influences early in her life. ... Robert Evans, proud of his daughter, bought her any book she wished and arranged for her to receive lessons in German and Italian (George 2). ... Eppie opened him up to relationships with others in the community, and eventually he was different from the unhappy introvert that he had been before she came in his life. ... Most of Eliot's early work was very profound, because she related so well with her topics that her novels almost seem auto...

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In novel Lunar Park, Ellis writes about the situations within his life during a two-week time in which many unusual circumstances occur. ... Bret's relationship with his father impacted his life in a negative way because he turned to drugs and alcohol. ... Repressed memories occur to allow the victim of a painful experience, and therefore traumatized, to continue life without having to deal with painful consequences of such piercing memories. ... Bret mentions at the end of the novel that he did not want any explanations for why his life was the way it was. ... It was during Bret's w...

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Hemingway's use of these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of critics and the public. ... He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. ... Hemingway's years following these awards saw few works as successful as his novel or earlier writings. ... Another episode in 1940 may have also served as a source for the novel. ... Always have courage and face your fears in life is the lesson from "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber-. ...

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They were no longer living a life that would become progressively easier as they aged. Instead, life was difficult and would only get more difficult as they grew older and less capable of what we now deem "survival of the fittest." ... This happiness is sustained through descriptions of life on the raft. ... The best thing about being in motion on a raft is the way in life goes on in a subtle but unforeseeable direction. ... The towns are filled with hostility. ...

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His lesson of humility at the hands of Elizabeth, removes many of his pretensions and prejudices Setting Time Period The era in which Pride and Prejudice is set is during the Napoleonic Wars (1797-1815). ... Austen shows this kind of class-consciousness life, particularly in the character of Mr. ... Austen criticise class structure but only a small part of that structure as she does not represent anyone from the lower classes; those servants she does portray are generally happy with their life. ... Within the novel there are other, smaller courtships: Mr. ... Courtship takes on an uns...

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He wrote plays, novels, poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Grendel in 1971. ... He lived a thorough and wonderful life, influencing many people throughout it (Grolier). ... He also falls into the temptation of saving his own life. ... Bercilak teaches Gawain an important lesson that sticks with him for the remainder of his life (Gibbons 1). ... He takes the green sash with the understanding that it represents the relationship he had with Lady Bercilak. ...

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Jane Eyre is by far the best known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. ... Once you read the novel, you can not forget Jane's strong personal character. ... From her leave from Gateshed Hall to the end of the novel, Jane's experience can be divided into three parts. ... (P245) This paragraph, I think, is one of the most wonderful parts of the novel. ... I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence- Life is great if you don't weaken. ...

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Despite the encouragement of the house overseer, Frank Crawley, and Maxim's sister, Beatrice, the heroine struggles in her new life at Manderley. ... This discovery prompts Maxim to tell the heroine the truth: Rebecca was a malevolent, wicked woman, who lived a secret life and carried on multiple affairs, including one with her cousin, Jack Favell. ... Characters The Heroine - The novel's protagonist and narrator; we never learn her given name. A shy, self-conscious young woman from a lower-middle class background, she begins the novel as a paid companion to Mrs. ... Rebecca - In li...

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Jack London was a renowned Classical Author that wrote many stories that he reflected with his own life's private struggles and accomplishments. ... He plunged on with his writings, and his dealings with the ranch. ... Out of the some 50 books London wrote two of the most famous novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Both of these novels were also made into movies that are still popular to this day. ... Buck is then thrown into a life he i...

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The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. ... Most significantly, this first chapter juxtaposes the two extreme cultures that are at work in the novel as a result of colonialism. ... Green, Obi's boss, is illustrative of the white, English presence in Nigeria in the late 1950s (when the novel is taking place). ... This section is filled with proverbs and colloquialisms. ... This is a subject that will persist throughout the novel until Obi's arrest and trial. ...

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Throughout the novel, Amir shows weakness within many areas of his daily life. ... Later in the novel Assef fulfills his promise. Assef instills a fear within Amir which disallows him to take a stand and defend himself throughout the novel. ... After Assef informs them he is going to teach Amir a lesson, Hassan steps in and says, "please leave us alone, Agha [] "To an outsider, he didn't look scared" (42). ... Hazaras in Kabul are expected to accept a life of oppression and humiliation. ...

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In an article entitled: Are American Values Shaped by the Mass Media, we presented with both sides of this argument. ... With all the advanced technology today, you can almost do anything and watch television at the same time. ... Lastly, you have the younger sister, who is a beautiful teenager, but whose life revolves around dating, the mall, talking on the telephone and going to school dances. ... Not to mention, that her life is so preoccupied with the above, that she has no time for school, and she receives terrible grades, but it is ok because she's daddy's little girl. Let us n...

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The main character of the novel, Charles Strickland, is a prosperous stockbroker. At the beginning of the book the reader sees him through the eyes of a young writer, the narrator of the novel: a very dull, quiet man, not in the least interested in literature or the arts(34), a typical broker. ... He was probably a worthy member of society, a good husband and father, an honest broker, but there was no reason to waste one's time over him. (39) It was an average family in the middle class - a rather dull man, doing his duty in that state of life in which a merciful Providence had placed him...

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Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and received grater recognition when in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African- American women to do so. ... While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. Sula, her second novel, deals with themes of race, womanhood, the effects of history, and the contingencies of love. ... Eva outlasts all of her children and grandchildren, with...

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We will see how Willie, an outsider from Putney Wayne with no education and no money, is the one with the greatest amount of character and morality. ... Even Roxanne's love interest Xavier, a successful black businessman, becomes frightened at the thought of falling in love with a black woman, calling it "one of the most terrifying experiences of his life (Naylor 97). ... (Naylor 137) The entire motivation for aligning with them is purely financial. ... Nedeed's own neighborhood stands by and watches out their windows as his house burns with him inside. ... Whatever doubt Willie h...

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Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and examine its connection with meaning in life. ... Many events in the nov...

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Then in one's life there are lovers. ... An analysis of the relationships presented in the novels The Awakening and Madame Bovary will be given. ... In the beginning of the novel with he sees that she is sunburned from swimming, he looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage."" ... As the novel progresses and Edna starts to paint instead of doing her chores, Leonce is worried about the negative effect of his social status because of his wife's sadness and unhappiness. ... He is completely nave to think that she was going to Rouen for...

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