It is the women characters in this novel who remain memorable as they strive to express their feelings. ... On the surface The Rainbow does not seem to be a novel much concerned with historical reality, concentrating instead on the consciousnesses and states of feeling of its main characters. ... In the various relationships that make up The Rainbow, women tend to dominate men in whom there is an imbalance between the male and female principles and as a result none of the relationships in the novel is fully satisfying, the male characters failing to measure up to the challenge presented by the...

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

Clearly, just as the Nazis wanted to mend the European society from the so called malady of those judged less than human, and just as during the Cold War the proliferation and possible detonation of nuclear weapons were deem as the only measures of liberating the human race from a constructed evil. ... And I personally feel compelled to state that man in today's society justifies his cruel actions by measuring the level of authority he possesses over others and ultimately giving him the right to eradicate life. ... Indeed, to demonstrate this very idea Findley procreates Noah's ch...

• Word Count: 1764
• Approx Pages: 7

The main character of the novel, the Narrator, an unnamed "thirty year old boy" who is employed in the recall division of the Federated Motor Corporation is the personification of the modern day American male raised in a capitalist society. ... Here it is evident that it is not the character of the individual and attributes that define him as an individual but what possessions the individual owns most accurately does... The only major female character in the novel, Marla, is portrayed as a strung-out female that is a constant pain in the Narrator's side. ... What Fight Club shows is t...

• Word Count: 1809
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The Unmasking "Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of it's success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world "the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe it's strange, special air- (Bernstein). ... McCarthy has a "pattern of using characters who struggle against a brutal hostile world and All the Pretty Horses carries on the tradition- (Cormac 3). ... A sort of revolution in the mind of the main character is also expected in the writings of McCarthy. ...

• Word Count: 2102
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School