Frankenstein's creation, though physically appearing to be a monster, ironically develops characteristics and qualities resembling those of a human being. ... Frankenstein continues to prove his label as a monster in the novel when he makes the sudden decision to abandons his own creation solely because of his physical appearance. ... As a parent, there is no justification to the abandonment of your own child especially if it is because of their physical appearance. ... Frankenstein embodies the characteristics of a monster when his obsession shifts towards viciously seeking revenge of hi...

• Word Count: 2040
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Lord of the Flies Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. ... The b oys are drawn to Ralph because of his physical characteristics and because he had blown the conch. ... The physical characteristics of Ralph remind the boys of their parents or other adult authority figures they may have had in their old lives back home. ...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this literary pairing, Tita and Mama Elana share similar characteristics that identify both of their individual battles and there clashes with each other. ... In addition to serving as one of the main central themes of the novel, food commonly has a physical and emotional turbulence, and also serves as a way in which emotions can be passed along. ... Heat is a representation of desire and physical love all throughout the novel: in Gertrudis escape from the ranch; Pedros lustful observing Tita in the shower; and the post-coital death of Pedro, along with many other situation throughout the...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Rochester persists in making physical and emotional barbs at Jane while awakening all her hidden desires. ... Another characteristic presented by Jane is her moral conviction. ... "Jane is deliberately made to draw attention to the parallelism between this temptation and the earlier one, between, as it were, an attempted physical rape and a more grievous attempted spiritual rape" (Ewbank 196). ... "Lowood opens inauspiciously, with still harsher physical discomfort-not merely piercingly actual but symbolic of a loveless order of things" (Craik 31). ...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The rings in the novel represent the physical power that accompanies wealth. ... It is not only distinctive, but, as a physical characteristic, this hair is truly a core part of the greaser personality. ...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the first of the relationships treated in the novel, Tom Brangwen doesn't quite have the identification with the land characteristic of his ancestors but he has similar roots and has few intellectual abilities. ... Its main weakness is due to Tom's imbalance which prevents him achieving anything other than a physical contact with Lydia. ... He thus loses her respect and she is the one who seeks contact with an otherness beyond their physical relationship. ...

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

Whenever two novels were written in different time periods, many differences can be found between these novels. They may have been written in different styles for different classes of readers. Viewpoints and beliefs change with time, and the writing styles in these novels reflect this evolution. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The angel is poised above Orlando and her daughter, resplendent and androgynous, pealing out the ecstasy of being "neither a woman nor a man," its exuberance inviting the audience to celebrate the eradication of chronology, distance and gendered characteristics. ... Her long look at his face and his smile, and the physical similarity (especially around the eyes) between Billy Zane and Charlotte Valandrey, encourage the viewer to imagine Orlando thinking back through that founding love affair, exploring the likeness between Sasha and Shelmerdine. ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses magical realism to combine reality and surreality onto the same plane making it seem as if the unreal happens as a part of everyday life. Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in...

• Word Count: 2483
• Approx Pages: 10