So, therefor, the two themes of war and friendship are intertwined throughout the novel. ... Throughout the novel Gene and Finny are searching for their own needs, but for that they are drawn to each other. ... So, therefor, the two themes of war and friendship are intertwined throughout the novel. ... So, therefor, the two themes of war and friendship are intertwined throughout the novel. ... So, therefor, the two themes of war and friendship are intertwined throughout the novel. ...

• Word Count: 65255
• Approx Pages: 261
• Grade Level: High School

Written by Jeanette Winterson in 1985, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a Bildungsroman novel. ... Normally the Bildungsroman is decisive; contrastingly Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit remains open and ambiguous as Jeanette wishes to be saved by 'a woman in another place' and this possibility leaves the novel in a state of limbo because the reader doesn't know if she finds it. ... The novel follows the development of Jeanette as she grows up and makes the decision that she is a lesbian and this causes uproar in the family home and in church as her highly religious mother regar...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nevertheless, the Harlequin Romance Novels can also examine Alex and Sam's break-up. In these novels, romance and love are categorized and defined by our culture's beliefs. ... The Harlequin novels basically impose a stereotypical view of love. It is evident that the ways in which love is portrayed in these novels can never occur in the real world but our culture believes that they are attainable. ... This clearly outlines that romance novels 6 intend to acknowledge that love signifies these characteristics. ...

• Word Count: 3239
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

• Word Count: 3412
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In using psychoanalysis, the classic novel, "The Great Gatsby" evolves from a tragic love story into one full of dysfunction. The romantic relationships in this novel provide some human behaviors that serve as rich topics for psychoanalytic criticism. ... The powerful romance between Gatsby of Daisy actually displays all of the elements of the dysfunctional relationships showed in the novel, revealing a pattern of psychological behavior that will seem to take over the entire story. ...

• Word Count: 2729
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography

Toni Morrison is the author of seven, critically acclaimed, novels and a professor at Princeton University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved and received grater recognition when in 1993, she received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first African- American women to do so. ... While she worked full-time as an editor at Random House and raised two sons, she began writing her first novel, The Bluest Eye. Sula, her second novel, deals with themes of race, womanhood, the effects of history, and the contingencies of love. ...

• Word Count: 2614
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

An analysis of the relationships presented in the novels The Awakening and Madame Bovary will be given. ... In the beginning of the novel with he sees that she is sunburned from swimming, he looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage."" ... As the novel progresses and Edna starts to paint instead of doing her chores, Leonce is worried about the negative effect of his social status because of his wife's sadness and unhappiness. ...

• Word Count: 3600
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

D.H Lawrence's novel, "Sons and Lovers," portrays three females whose tragedies lie in the fact that they merely function as "stones" in Paul's life. ... Towards the end of the novel, Paul ends the three relationships and moves on. ...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School