Gulliver combats this with an infatuating obsession with clothes, believing that people should be clothed and if so, they will remain civilized and human. ... This misfortune is a lesson to Gulliver, teaching him that death is inevitable and that he can be relieved from the fear of death. ... The novel "Robinson Crusoe" focuses on a situation where an individual is stranded and left to fight for survival. ... He believes that his fate has turned into providence, and for this reason he has been punished by God, and left on the island for a lesson in life. ... Despite his misfortune, he beli...

• Word Count: 1742
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The scientists of today propose to create life from life. ... Is there a lesson in this for modern Man? ... Learning the secrets to creating life inevitably provides lessons to extending and improving life. ... Like a parent with a problem child, the decisions are generally made with the best intent but may not meet the needs or satisfy the urges of the new individual. ... At the end of the novel Victor relates his story to Walton to prevent him from making the same devastating mistakes that he made. ...

• Word Count: 1596
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ... In "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by reversing the black-white paradigm, Huck ultimately learns of the invalidity of the ideology behind slavery and racism that has governed his beliefs about whites and blacks his entire life. ... Using this existing idea of whites, Mark Twain instead characterizes them by rather opposing traits, evidently criticizing their supposed "goodness " throughout the novel. ... The scam has surely confounded Huc...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. After the titular character imbues his gargantuan experiment with life, he is overcome with the repulsiveness of his creature and flees, rejecting it as a demon. ... Though his time with the DeLacys first incited his desire to share in the feelings of others' joy, he left feeling bitter, cursing his creator for granting him a life of solitude. ... Next, in his time with the DeLacys, the creature begins develo...

• Word Count: 1509
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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 questions the principle of the cause of life, and realizes that, "to examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death. ... Upon his successful discovery of life, he collects numerous body parts and begins the creation of his creature. ... It is then that the creature begins to pay close attention to the lessons that the cottagers give the woman on their languag...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate