"Snow Falling on Cedars," a novel written by David Guterson, is set in 1954 San Piedro Island, just north of Puget Sound. The novel follows the trial of a Japanese American man named Kabuo Miyamoto who is accused for murdering a local fisherman. ... The novel begins with the introduction of a court room containing members of the local community. ... Throughout the novel, the racism shown toward the Japanese can be seen with vivid clarity during the scenes take place in the court room. ... Throughout the novel, David Guterson uses the trial for the murder of the local fisherman in order to show...

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His significance in this act changes from literal at that point in the novel to figurative when taken in context with the later events in Heart of Darkness. When the doctor asks in Marlow has a family history of mental illness, there is immediate foreshadowing about the madness that is to come in the novel. ... Within the context of the entire novel, the doctor's bizarre behavior seems to be an analogy for what Marlow thinks is the essence of Imperialism: a pointless method of judging an unknown, a ˜heart of darkness', by its exterior physical features (Europeans go into Afri...

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Virginia Woolf attaches great importance to this phenomenon in her novel Mrs. ... Being published in 1925, Virginia Woolf´s novel Mrs. Dalloway is an exemplar of "Modernist Literature" of which the literature is famous for turning the conventional novel format upside down, and experimenting with time and order, perspective, and point of view. ... So there is no objective reality in the novel, and the reader cannot say for sure that a character is like this or that, but he has to rely on the novel´s character´s impressions and on his sense of sympathy. ... In this manner the novelÂ...

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In this story William Golding employs religious allegory, linking parts of his novel to several biblical stories and portrays Simon as a Christ-like figure. Some events and setting details prove this novel to contain religious allegory, considering they are almost parallel to those in the bible. ... Furthermore Simon resembles Jesus throughout the whole novel, and is presented as a Christ-like figure. ... The symbolism and representations, having to do with religion, that illuminate the flaws of human kind justifiably make this novel an allegory. ... The relation that William Golding makes ...

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The novel shows through its characters, a society without values, without feelings, where the only thing that counts is to have fun and where the problems, if there are any, are resolved by taking "soma". ... If we take notice, we will see that the author describes a word similar to ours, but the surprising thing is that this  novel was written in 1932. ... Perhaps we could say that Huxley is another example of a visionary as were Jules Verne and George Orwell in his novel "1984".   This novel is very interesting, and is capable of engaging the reader within the story by the novelty of his ...

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This is clearly illustrated in Lord of the Flies, a novel written by William Goldings. ... As illustrated in the novel Lord of the Flies, a society without the enforcement of laws experience the disappearance of goodness, conscience and sanity and dominance of evil and savagery. This novel reflects the shortcomings of the human mind that is easily dominated by forces of darkness. ...

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In his novel "1984", George Orwell creates a society where all decency, integrity, individuality, and consciousness has been destroyed and abolished from existence in order to obtain a "so-called" utopia. ... Orwell's intention for writing this novel is not to show the reader how the current society can become, but to show that it is very much possible for humans to become dehumanized by these torturous means. ... Oppression in the novel, resulting from two main themes of poverty and politics, is made quite evident from the very first chapter of "1984". ...

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Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, sheds light on the eternal illusory and importance of appearance through the tale of an unwanted creation that is never given a chance. ... Not only does the creature suffer the prejudice of an appearance-based society, but other situations and characters in the novel force the reader to reflect their own hasty crimes of judgment in an intelligent and adult fashion. The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation, the creature's biased opinion of the cott...

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Throughout the novel "Gulliver's Travels", Swift challenges the contemporary values of human nature, using the many visited lands and those creatures within them, to represent every single corner of human progression and the forever changing views in human belief. ... The novel "Robinson Crusoe" focuses on a situation where an individual is stranded and left to fight for survival. ...

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The novel takes place in pre-Civil War America where slavery still exists, and it tells a story of a boy who goes on a quest to free Jim, a slave. ... Using this existing idea of whites, Mark Twain instead characterizes them by rather opposing traits, evidently criticizing their supposed "goodness " throughout the novel. ... Apologizing to Jim, then, poses a great feat for Huck, yet, he does apologize to Jim because for the first time in the novel, Huck and the readers see Jim as a person with morals, feelings, intellect and, practically most of the traits that make him "human." " Huck realiz...

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From that point in the novel forward, Shelley depicts the development and transformation of the creature's personality and character through the experiences he has with society and the environment. ... He spends the rest of the novel exacting revenge through his murderous behavior. ... Perhaps the most prominent example of her stance comes during the dialogue between Walden and the creature during the last chapter of the novel. ...

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Individual obedience to someone depends largely upon what that individual has to risk if disobedient. We would all like to think that that we would never succumb to the kind of peer pressure that would cause us to harm others; however it's hard to predict how we will react when such a situation...

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Throughout the novel, it is demonstrated that a government that completely controls a nation will fail. ... According to Bernard Marx's character in the novel, if one person is able to hold on to individuality, many other people will as well. ...

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In the novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, the Creature is described by society as a heartless fiend capable of unleashing havoc due to his grim, horrific appearance, and is often dubbed as a monster. ... In several instances throughout the novel, Victor acts in a barbaric and antagonistic manner towards his own creation, despite the Creature's initial kindness and innocence. ...

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In his novel Brave New World, Huxley portrays a society in which all beings are genetically engineered into different social classes. ... Such things that are altered in Huxley's novel and perhaps thought about when deciding whether genetic engineering is acceptable are intelligence, physical ability, and various other traits. ...

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Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... Later in the novel, the creature is able to convince Delacey that he is human through oral communication. ...

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In her novel "Frankenstein," Mary Shelley asks her audience to consider the limits to which we can expand the category of human nature, and if her creature might be best understood as "human". ... Victor Frankenstein manages to create his own humanoid creation vastly superior to the average man, and throughout the novel, struggles on whether or not to identify the creature as human, or keep his original thoughts of it being a regretful disgrace to the world, due to the demon-like actions that the creature commits. ... The creature has a sense of feeling that ranges from several diffe...

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Related to its title, the profoundness of science in the novel is implied by its sub-title --- "Modern Prometheus". ... In the novel, Frankenstein approaches this groundbreaking technology and seizes it, with the ambition -- can life subjectively surpass themselves by utilizing science? In the novel, Frankenstein is exploiting:"Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed? ...

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In her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley simultaneously spins both a gripping horror story and an intense line of philosophical questioning - specifically, what it means to be human. ... Finally, at the end of the novel and the creature's life, he has reached old age. ...

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Kafka's The Metamorphosis exemplifies great use of imagery throughout the work and at the same time uses it to contribute to some larger meaning in the story. There are multiple occurences where Kafka refers to events such as his struggle to keep his furniture in his room, to keep the picture of the...

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Religion was a means to achieve something for everyone, while countless were abused and used because of their religious motives; religious figures instead took advantage of their power and acted against others making it more like a monarchy. The King and all the heads of families did as they wished ...

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It was a criticism on George Orwell who drew the television only as means that controls information and knowledge in his novel "1984" and he kept on refuting the stereotypes of communication through his further works such as "Bye Bye Kipling," "The More, The Better," etc. ...

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At first I was quite skeptical about reading an entire book devoted to conservation biology. When Mr. Hall assigned the material, I was not quite sure what to think. It had been three, long years since I had even taken a biology class. It was somewhat overwhelming, but at the same time I felt a ...

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As scientists continue to piece together nature's mysteries of science, and as technology is becoming the dominating force in numerous areas worldwide, there is often a crucial piece of the puzzle that goes missing: responsibility. Though many people praise the abundant benefits of modern technology...

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