Being able to understand the personas of characters greatly aids the process of analyzing and comprehending the storyline of a novel. ... When reading both these novels, most readers usually do not first pay attention to the details of the clothing that the characters in these two novels wear. ... The ways these two men dress reveal a few of the many ironical aspects of the two novels. ... Besides clothing, accessories also play a vital role in revealing the personalities of the characters in the novels. ... It is easy to miss such minor details and not get the chance to notice certain elemen...

• Word Count: 1389
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Silas Marner is a novel about a character, which is portrayed in an ascending positivism throughout the whole book and scenery. ... Much of the dramatic force in the novel is focused on his social life as a whole. The old saying "People need people" is expounded on in this novel on the positive basis, although much of the relationships in the book are reluctant and unsuccessful. ... In the novel, Silas Marner appears to be distinct from society and his major change in life occurred when he lost everything but his monetary collection of guineas. ... In conclusion, through a vast amount of ex...

• Word Count: 774
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In her novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen successfully incorporates various social and mental awakenings that, in turn, serve as significant turning points in the novel. ... In the beginning of the novel Jane Austen gives a brief insight into the relationship of Mr. and Mrs. ... In fact, it is Elizabeth's relationship with Darcy that serves as the "life line" of the novel. ... Thus from Darcy's first proposal till the end of the novel, we see Elizabeth's love for Darcy steadily grow, causing the reader to experience a total reversal regarding her perception of Darcy. ...

• Word Count: 1153
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for one another seems to be the centre of Wuthering Heights, given that it is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure the novel's plot. ...

• Word Count: 268
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

To what extent does this novel uphold traditional family values? ... In the novel "One True Thing- by Anna Quindlen we are presented with a paradigm of a "perfect family- who complies with gender-based assumptions. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Line of the Sun by Judith Ortiz Cofer, is a novel based in the 1950's through the 1960's about story-telling. All the characters introduced in the novel, have some sort of tie or connection to the main narrator, Marisol. ... The Line of the Sun is a great example of how women do not have a significant role in the world in that time, how they were responsible for the household chores and raising the children, while the men in the novel were responsible for working and supporting the families, with very little variance from this. However, there were a select few characters introdu...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel "One True Thing- by Anna Quindlen we are presented with a paradigm of a "perfect family- who complies with gender-based assumptions. ... The traditional family is at the heart of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 844
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Courtship therefore takes on a profound, if often unspoken, importance in the novel. ... The difference between the two novels in this instance, then, is that society dictates what people can and can't do and how happy they can be in "Pride and Prejudice" – conventions that just haven't changed. ... Elizabeth does not conform to the way society wants her to, and perhaps as a result finds more happiness than anyone in the novel by marrying Darcy. ...

• Word Count: 1738
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dimmesdale was shunned by all of Puritan society in the Massachusetts Bay colony. she was forced to stand on a scaffold in front of the townspeople for three hours wearing an embroided Scarlet letter "A" which stood for "Adultery" at that point in the novel. ... In comparison to Ray rice, a football player who was well liked by many people before the incident with his wife, Hester was described as beautiful and she even felt happier and different after removing her scarlet letter at one point in the novel when she was in the forest with Dimmesdale and her daughter Pearl. ... Although Hester a...

• Word Count: 1654
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Jane Austen's 1815 classic novel 'Emma' appropriated into Amy Heckerling's 1995 film 'Clueless', provides an insight on the drastic changes in societal values shaped by their changing contexts. ... Throughout the novel 'Emma', Austen critiques Regency society's expectation for women to be married to a man of equal or higher status and wealth. ...

• Word Count: 1249
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The author Sholem Aleichem describes Tevye as a wise Jewish dairyman of a Russian village who can readily quote the Bible or some other holy text on any occasion. The majority of the short novel is about Tevye's struggles to marry his seven daughters, only Tsaytl, Hodl, Chava, Shprintze, and Beilke'...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Love, in the world of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' is a destructive force."" Love has the power to heal; however the experiences of the Tull family in Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant' demonstrate the destruction and pain that individuals can also encounter as a result of ...

• Word Count: 950
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth-Century England In Naomi Tadmor's article, The Concept of the Household-Family in Eighteenth Century England, she discussed what a household family consisted of though the analization of five different books written in the eighteen century. Alth...

• Word Count: 1015
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The famous television actor Bill Cosby stated, "For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked" (Motivational Quotes). Cosby's statement still has meaning today. While the Vatican (the papal government) forbids the Pope and ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Marriage across the world is a socially approved sexual and economic union between two or more people that is expected to last for a long time" (McDaniel and Tepperman 2011:96). The process of socialization relating to marriage and other intimate relationships is both complex and arduous as relatio...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Confronted with Alzheimer's disease, Grant and Fiona experience contrasting emotions as the film progresses, which is symbolized by the kitchen, nature, and the nursing home. The kitchen in the couple's cottage home symbolizes an intimate place for the two of them; they are often gathered there after ski trips and show a high level of comfort around each other. Grant and Fiona have been married for 44 years and it is starting to become a problem when Fiona begins to acknowledge her Alzheimer's disease. Even at an old age the two are able to joke around and maintain the sense of ...

• Word Count: 2434
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate