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Noli metangere and El filibusterismo are the two marked novels of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal which are similar and different in some ways. The two novels are similar primarily in their author, Rizal. Another, in a way that they both talk about how Spaniards abused the Filipinos, the abuse of the church of…

Bram Stokers Dracula has held a fascination for both the public and literary professionals alike for over a century, in fact, since it was first published in 1897; it has never been out of print. No other Gothic character has been able to hold universal appeal in quite the same way, but why society should…

The Sorrow Of War – A Novel Of North Vietnam (By Bao Ninh) Introduction  For ages, humans have struggled to cope with the affects of war. In the course of war, innumerable people lose their lives. But the affect of war does not end with the death of these people, it continues even after the…

Naturalism in Mowats: A scientific look at survival of the Fittest, the human beast, and animal Hunting                Farley Mowat’s three novels Never Cry Wolf (1963), The People of the Deer (1952), and A Whale for the Killing all agree on the role of naturalism, the plight of the animal, the commercialization of hunting, ruthlessness…

            The novel The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, is the story of how two black families handle the ideals that have been placed upon society by white culture. The first family is the Breedloves. This family’s attitude is represented by Pauline, who is ashamed of her blackness and sees whiteness as the only thing…

In “The Lord of the Flies” William Golding presents many ways that Jack and Ralph contrast. Throughout the story Jack and Ralph have ideas and actions that do not go well together. As chief Jack and Ralph are two very different characters. Ralph represents ego, by focusing on reality and making smart decisions. Jack represents…

Cloud Atlas consists of six different narratives which are not in order in the book which made the novel having intersections and synchronized. The first parts of the stories were partially written. The story beginning of the story was all about an America notary’s journal in the South Seas voyage times. The first story was…

The film Dangerous Liaison, directed by Stephen Frears remains just about faithful to the epistolary novel, Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos. Stephen Frears does “betray” the novel towards the end of the film but, it makes the ending that much more better and enticing. The film represents what the epistolary novel only hints at…

  “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” was the tagline to 1962 film version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick.  This particular novel was steeped in controversy since the day it was published.  Often regarded as pornography and it has been on and off the banned book list for decades.  …

Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent, a suburb of London, to alower-middle-class family. He attended London University and the Royal Collegeof Science where he studied zoology. One of his professors instilled in him abelief in social as well as biological evolution which Wells later cited as theimportant and influential aspect of his education….