In this essay, these elements will be explored and critically analyzed, with examples from the chosen chapter extract. The chapter deals with the death of the Jesuit baron and Candide's subsequent escape with Cacambo. ... Parody also features in this chapter, although the reader could easily not notice. ... Satire is a prevailing and predominant element in Voltaire's work as is made clear in Chapter 15. All of the above features contribute to the satire in the book and define it; the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or ...

• Word Count: 1041
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The initial chapter has Doctor Iannis curing Stammatis's from deafness only to discover that a pea is lodged in his ear. ... The following chapter(2) uses single narrative in the monologue of Mussolini. ... The humourous image of a self absorbed dictator is purposely created, and his feline encounter later in the chapter ends up as a bloody mess and an early siesta. Satire is present in the chapter involving Corelli and the mine on the beach(43), with the smug engineer being decapitated shortly after declaring that Corelli was going to be killed. ... This theme of loss of faith regarding ...

• Word Count: 2754
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the forward of "Beloved," she explains that she is writing this book as an extremely angry African American woman. ... In "Beloved," the only character insight the reader receives is in the last few chapters which are told from the Sethe's, Denver's, and "Beloved's" point of view. Even in these chapters, Morrison's bias is dominant. ... Other critics disagree and claim that the book has no cultural importance whatsoever. They debate that more important novels could replace the book on reading lists. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the stories opening chapter McIlvanney takes a non-traditional approach to crime literature as he reveals to readers the novel's killer. ... In chapter five it is revealed that Tommy is likely a homosexual, although not admittedly so. ... The finest demonstration of this is in the book's final chapter when Laidlaw took his colleague, Detective Inspector Milligan "by the lapels and flung him across the corridor" (278) for his mistreatment of Tommy. ...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is a very bold statement by Bronte, in her attempt to make a political statement within her book Jane Eyre. ... This excerpt from the book clearly expresses Bronte's strong feelings about women's domesticity in her time, and she does it in an almost semi-humorous way which makes it even more impressive. ... The entire passage from chapter twelve of Jane Eyre is a symbol of Bronte's disgust with the social restrictions put on women of her era. ...

• Word Count: 1148
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Shelley also refers to "Cornelius Agrippa" throughout the book who himself wrote many volumes on the philosophy of the occult. ... Frankenstein begins his story in Geneva, at home with his family, during chapter three, his mother dies of scarlet fever after attending to Elizabeth, whom she contracts it from. ... The monster is brought to life in Chapter five, "on a dreary November night, again this adds to the stereotypical image of the horror genre. ... During chapter 24, Walton takes over telling the story, and again Shelley uses epistolary form for him to do this, as Walton is again writ...

• Word Count: 2019
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The first of these sections, including the chapter covering Don Quixote's first expedition, functions mainly as a satirical composition of fashionable romance tales. The second section, contains the rest of the first part, is written under the appearance of a history, by going along in a historical detour and breaking up the chapters regularly, carefully reporting every day's events. ...

• Word Count: 1783
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Indeed, the full title of the book is "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" and it is therefore written in first person. ... She claims she is 'struck with wonder' (chapter 8 PAGE 74) by Helen. ...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. Good! Eva Luna was my introduction into the world of Isabel Allen...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Although the majority of the book portrays the depressing day to day mission of the man and the boy, each time the two overcome imminent death, they are encouraged to persevere. ... At the end of chapter one, Dwight Towers and Moira Davidson share the information that their situation is "like [they are] waiting to be hung" (40), which means the characters are well aware of their fate. ...

• Word Count: 1772
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An eighty-page mixture of short, fragmentary chapters, photographs, and illustrations of medieval architecture and manuscripts, the Postscript is partly a poetics designed to "help us understand how to solve the technical problem which is the production of a work." ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely could not like such 'cultivated' books" (Eco, 1983). ...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The outcry of the conservative press made much of sexual "filth" but was probably as much animated by outrage at Lawrence's disenchantment with modernity and militarism, some critics arguing that such a book would undermine the moral health of the nation in a time of war. ... There appears to be an allusion to Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Chapter 15 when Skrebensky says to Ursula: "I am not afraid of the darkness in England [ ]. ...

• Word Count: 1985
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate