This unjust racist deed helped him evaluate the prejudice against the black race and symbolize it all in one character, Henry Johnson. Stephen Cane's "The Monster" can be related to Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" in that both characters go through transformations. ... The story begins with a stranger, who had taken offense to a wrong done to him in the town, vowed to be the one to corrupt it. ... The only way they could claim the prize was to repeat the advice given to the stranger. According to his instructions, they published the stranger's terms of gaini...

• Word Count: 2988
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Willy Lomans tragedy is due equally to his own flawed character and to society"'s flaws. ... In contrast to male characters of the play, female characters lack the vivid, multi-layered human quality that male characters seem to possess. ... Given the complex and compelling traits of the male characters in Death of a Salesman, it is surprising that Miller chose to give so little attention to the female characters. ... For all intents and purposes, she merely exists as a periphery character to complete Willy"'s family unit. ... Incapable of her own thoughts and opinions, Linda"'s ...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Heilman states that Miller, turned to more vigorous characters who cause suffering rather than uncomprehendingly suffer, he portrayed an evil rooted in human nature overwhelming the community, he made advances toward complexity of motive, and he began to discover inner division (160). ... The Crucible has a narrator, a voice not a character, that tells us about the characters and the action and helps us to understand the moral implications. ...

• Word Count: 11015
• Approx Pages: 44
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...

• Word Count: 7844
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School