Novel Essay Examples

“”Silas MarnerThrough out this marvellously written novel, George Elliot use ofbeautiful language and imagery makes ‘Silas Marner’ one of the greatestever reads. After being was accused of stealing church money and declaredguilty even though he wasn’t, Silas Marner lost his relationships withfriends and loved ones. Unable to cope with the shame, which was cast uponhim,…

Jem and Scout are two caring siblings who look out for each other. At the start the children are not aware of a few things such as what real courage was. Boo Radley, to them a very strange man, lived at the corner of the street in a shabby house with his father and mother….

A heroine could be defined as a woman of outstanding courage and endurance, who is greatly admired or worthy of being admired. Essentially, she must be a person of outstanding qualities. We have been asked to investigate Offred’s character and evaluate how she conforms to the role of the heroine in the novel. Throughout ‘The…

Andy Mulligan’s 2010 Novel Trash explores the critical thought of poorness demonstrated by the status Behala a trash shit, the country Gardo, Raphael and Rat call place, it appears a desparately seamy land where the most destitute people dig through mountains of refuse to carve out a support for themselves and their households. Andy mulligan…

The term ‘stream of consciousness’ as applied in literary criticism to designate a particular mode of prose narrative was first coined by philosopher William James in his book Principles of Psychology (1890) to describe the uninterrupted flow of perceptions, memories and thoughts in active human psyche. As a literary term, however, it denotes a certain…

For almost three decades, Michael Crichton has written novels that appeal to hisreader`s imagination and take a firm hold of their pocketbooks. Crichton`swriting stands out as much as his 6=9 frame. He has become one of the mostwidely read and bought science fiction authors of the past three decades. Fromhis first novel The Andromeda Strain,…

May Sarton’s novel, As We Are Now, tells the story of 76 year old Caroline (Caro) Spencer who has been placed in a nursing home by her family to live. However, Caro feels she has been dumped, abandoned, and left to die in what she refers to as a “concentration camp for the old.1” To…

            Tayama Katai’s “The Quilt” is regarded “as the prototypical shishosetsu” (Fowler xvi) and is often discussed as the first marker for the emergence of the genre which influenced almost every other writer/genre of the period. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit in her book “Rituals of Self-Revelation: shishosetsu as a literary genre and socio cultural phenomenon” says “…

Epiphany The experience of one being awakened to unforeseen thoughts or ideas is generally known as an epiphany. Many of Flannery O’Conner’s writings which comprises of tragic events that eventually lead his characters into appalling situations, ultimately serves as an example of some sort of revelation or epiphany to the character. One example of O’Conner’s…

The nervous condition In the novel Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, the character Nyasha aptly describes the quandary that is postcolonial identity. “It would be a marvelous opportunity, she said sarcastically, to forget. To forget who you were, what you were and why you were that. The process, she said, was called assimilation, and that…