In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce follows the mental and physical maturation of Stephen Dedalus. ... Throughout the novel, Simon is depicted as a man who seems stuck n a rut, unable to move forward. ... Simon's failings as a man culminate in Stephen's struggle to move forward in his own life, bogged down by dogmatic and idealistic societal concepts. ... Leaving Ireland by ship, Stephen is crossing the ocean to intellectual freedom as Daedalus crossed the sea to his freedom on mainland Europe. ... The novel ends with a shout out to this "Old Artificer" ...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At first, Crusoe can be characterized as a man who is in large part a product of his environment and the ideals of current society. ... In just this comment, Crusoe is shown to be an economical man with a moral impulse. ... However, upon realizing the need for God in his life and the importance of practicing religious values, he revises his schedule to include his new way of living along with the old. ... The man who wrote this list proves to have a significantly different perspective on life than the man who created the one early in the novel, where God was not even mentioned, let alone place...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The fundamental tension in the novel is between those, like the inquisitor Bernardo Gui, Jorge de Burgos, Ubertino of Casale, or Adso in old age and that rare medieval-postmodern William who has abandoned his role of inquisitor, refusing to discriminate between martyr and heretic, for example. ...

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