Essays on Novel

I’m going to analyze a novel “The Happy Man” by Somerset Maugham, a well-known English novelist, short-story writer, playwright and essayist. William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, educated at King’s school in Canterbury and studied to be a doctor at St. Thomas Hospital in England. He was one of the best known writers of…

Lennie Small has a very symbolic importance in the novel Of Mice and Men. In the novel George Milton and Lennie Small both migrant workers pursue their dream of someday owning their own ranch by travelling around working as ranch hands to earn a living. The dream they share is to be able to “live…

Richard Wright is the author of the novel, Native Son. By writing thenovel, he wanted to awaken America to the realities of the relationshipbetween blacks and whites in the controversial 1930s. When he wrotethis novel, it caused many disputes among Americans. Many peoplethought that some of the issues Wright included in his novel were notappropriate…

Looking at the novels of, ‘The Lost honour of Katharina Blum’ and ‘The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea’,  examine how the authors, Heinrich Boll and Yukio Mishima create the roles of Katharina Blum and Ryuji in regard to the theme of honour. In the two novels, “The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum”…

Daphne Du Maurier ( 13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989 ) was born in London. She came from an artistic household. Her male parent was the actor-manager Sir Gerald Du Maurier and she was the granddaughter of caricaturist George Du Maurier. One of her ascendants was Mary Anne Clarke, the kept woman of the…

Themes Duality is the central theme that binds together all the intricately plotted themes within the both the novel and the film Duality- Book The duality of man is a key theme in the novel, “The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde”. The separation of Jekyll into two beings, Jekyll and Hyde, is…

“You say that we are drunkards, that we live for drinking. But drinking is a way of dying. Dying without enjoying life” (Mosionier 154), April Raintree, main character of the novel In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, wished she could change her Metis heritage or the spelling of her last name, Raintree,…

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…

I see the character Slim as a leader and that he should be admired as he is a highly skilled mule driver and the acknowledged “prince” of the ranch. From the beginning, Slim was very nice to George and Lennie. “His tone was friendly. It invited confidence without demanding it”. He always had a listening…

Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel about a group of English school boys who are stranded on a desert island. The book follows the striking change from civilisation to savagery, to illustrate the need for law and order in a society. Without this, the malicious nature of humanity can be revealed and the…