Leo Tolstoy's novel, The Death of Ivan Illyich, is a novel which creates both a modern and traditional atmosphere. ... Austen concludes the novel by allowing all the characters what he each individually deserves. ... Through these aspects of her novel Austen shows her traditional writing style. ... Finally Dostoevesky illustrates modernism through his novel, Notes From the Underground. ... The novel shows how modernism rose along with the rise of isolation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, there is also a great deal of symbolism throughout the whole story. ... You also learn that Tita shows her emotions through her cooking, which is a vital part of telling this novel. ... At the very end of the novel Tita finally gets to experience the one thing she has always wanted to experience, and that is love. The novel ends with Pedro and Tita making love, and during this all of Tita's candles are lit. ... In the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Tita's cooking expresses her love and sorrow that she feels for Pedro. ...

• Word Count: 1481
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Mother is the third chapter of the novel and deals with another cause of isolation, the inability to communicate feelings. ... These problems are the causes of the presence of the grotesques in the novel. ... Another theme of the novel is discovery. ... The final theme of the novel is cultural failure. ... Through the use of short tales combined to create a novel, Anderson is able to communicate many themes. ...

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This battle is delicately illustrated in Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. ... The controversial ending of the novel is Edna's final step on her road to individualism. ... Kate Chopin chose to end her touching novel with death. ... At the same time the novel took place women were expected to marry, even if not for love. ... Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, follows a young woman on her journey to autonomy. ...

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I, and many other people with whom I've conferred, would consider Wuthering Heights a romance novel. In romance novels, there is always, at a minimum, one antagonist. ... Readers almost always get a glimpse of that as the novel progresses. ... I think that Bronte made this stick out in the novel for a reason. ... Bronte truly wrote a remarkable novel....

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A prime example of a marriage without love in the novel, is the marriage of Mr. ... As the novel states, " Mr. ... She takes on a inconsolable air throughout the novel especially when she accepts Mr. ... According to the novel, "Her mind was less difficult to develop. ... As the novel reads, " A long dispute followed this declaration; but Mr. ...

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The first sentence of the novel focuses on the importance of getting married within the novels timeframe of the 1800's. ... Miss Elizabeth Bennet is used as a buffer throughout the novel. ... Throughout the novel, the audience is reading through Elizabeth's point of view. ... This type of situation as unheard of in the 1800's and was a landmark in the novel. ... Austen used the characters in her novel to enunciate the issues with love. ...

• Word Count: 1583
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• Grade Level: High School

Racism is a main issue in the novel. ... Sexism is also a problem in the novel. ... Sofia always stands up for herself through out the novel. ... There are many female relationships in the novel. ... The men in the novel are given no last name. ...

• Word Count: 1740
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• Grade Level: High School

Out of all her novels, Pride and Prejudice is by far most popular as well as the most critically acclaimed novel. ... " One of the basic issues that the novel Pride and Prejudice revolves around is marriage. ... This novel is an interesting observation as it contains instances to other of the time periods. ... Her conversations with various people in the novel, especially Darcy, prove her valiant and vibrant spirit. ... But it is clear in the novel that one of the qualities Darcy admires in Elizabeth is her wittiness. ...

• Word Count: 2459
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• Grade Level: High School

But in this novel we find another kind of romantic love' in the sense that for romantics Love passion involves suffering, mostly because this romantic love can't be fulfilled, as it happens to the protagonists in the novel; Catherine and Heathcliff cannot find a way to be together except in the grave. ... Most characters in the novel also suffer the love or lack' of love. ... From this point there is an on going conflict between love and hate, which lasts until the end of the novel. We could say that there is a general confrontation during the novel between two opposites: Nat...

• Word Count: 2324
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• Grade Level: High School

This novel, subtitled "A Pure Woman" was first published in 1891 to a mixed reception. ... This novel is basically the story of a country girl, Tess whose fate is tragic and in the end she becomes a "tragic heroine". ... In the course of the novel as well until this point we can always find hints of foreshadowing of what is to come: the misfortunes and the tragedy. ... She is a beautiful girl and there is a continual stress on her beauty throughout the novel. ... Tess's suffering is repeatedly associated with animal suffering as well at the end of the novel when Tess is arrested and her ...

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Stephen Coote characterized the novel as "the tragedy of unfulfilled aims" (564). Not only desires such as becoming a well educated scholar and experiencing the state of equality of social classes are included, but especially the theme of marriage creates the major theme in the novel. ... There can be seen other impacts in the novel. ... The theme of marriage is actually hinted before the entire plot of the novel begins. ... It is demonstrated by Phillotson's decission in the novel. ...

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This quote by the female protagonist in Tobias Wolff's short story, "Say Yes- addresses the unlikelihood of an interracial couple as presented in Ann Petry's novel, The Narrows. ... She does this through contrasting them with a same-race (yet unsuccessful) couple in the novel. ... Petry contrasts Link and Camillo with another same-race couple in the novel to show how intermixing of race is arbitrary to the success of a relationship. ... The Major is shown as a more positive character in the novel, and therefore used by Petry to imply the mixing of colors. ... It is through contrastin...

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The comic tendencies displayed in the novel's language introduce a theme very important to the novel "the character's laughter and their attitudes towards laughter as an index to their morality and social philosophy. Beginning with Darcy's opinion, expressed early in the novel, that Miss Bennet "smiled too much,"" attitudes towards laughter divide the characters. ... At one point in the novel, the readers are taken aback by a comment that Elizabeth makes. ... She understands how they can arise and presents circumstances in the novel, which promote the development of the...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School

(Proverbs 31:29) In Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D"Urbervilles, Tess, the focal point of the novel, remained faithful at heart to her marriage despite all of her hardships. ... Many readers of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles believe that Alec, logically, is Tess's opposition throughout the novel. ... It seems that in the later portion of the novel, Angel and Alec exchange roles. ... In the beginning, Angel seems to be a part of the novel exclusively to end Tess's suffering. Their meeting of fate, as the novel opens, and then later, seem to make the reader bel...

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• Grade Level: High School

The black woman's relation to the mule is an important metaphor in the novel because Janie's husbands treated her the same way that they treated their mules. ... The gate is another significant metaphor used in the novel because it represents the beginning and end of segments of Janie's life. ... The first was that Tea Cake was the first man in the novel that Janie was explicitly attracted to physically. ... The novel's title comes into play towards the end of the story when the town is caught in an immense hurricane. ... Janie comes to the resolution at the end of the nove...

• Word Count: 1903
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novels, "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" and "Surfacing", we see two individuals struggling with love and relationships. ... At the beginning of the novel the narrator is content with Joe being around, however we know right from the start that she does not love him, but that he loves her... The past of the narrator is the main theme of the novel. ... As we see through the two novels, love and relationships are difficult to maintain. ...

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Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Hurston's best novel describes the life of Janie, a black woman at the turn of the century. ... The novel ends with Janie coming to terms with Tea Cake's death. ...

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Jane Austen and Charles Dickens both depict marriage proposals in their novels. Although the suitors in both novels seek matrimony from their proposals, the probable effects on the women being addressed will differ greatly due to the different arguments, assumptions, and attitudes each man uses. In Austens" novel, the suitor, Mr. ... The suitor in Charles Dickens" novel, Bradley Headstone, will surely win the heart of his love, Lizzie Hexam, through his proposal to her. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Aboriginal people were among the first in Australia, in this novel they help bring the family together by giving advice. ... From this experience Fish gains a spiritual bond with the water, and throughout several parts of the novel he cries "The water!" ... The house is personified in the novel and is very much apart of the family. ...

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In the novel Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann, uses the theory of the six degree of separation by uniting people through a "steel cable" inside a web of tragic events that eventually leads the character to find hope for life again. ... " Inside McCann's novel, he supports this theory by giving each and one of his characters heartbreaking situations that all lead them to changes them as an individual. The novel begins with Ciaran's brother, Corrigan, and his altruistic role in society. ...

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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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With in the novel these well developed characters are isolated from the rest of society and are very lonely. ... Mice and Men are lonely and the person who represents this most is Culrey's wife, one of the most pivotal characters in the novel. ... For a brief moment in the novel Crooks shows hope. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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