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Often individuals choose to conform to society, rather than pursue personal desires because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than create a new one. In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, this conflict is explored. Huxley starts the story by introducing Bernard Marx, the protagonist of…

The red hunting hat is one Of the most recognizTABLE symbols from twentieth- century American literature. It is inseparTABLE from our image of Holder, with good reason: it is a symbol of his uniqueness and individuality. The hat is outlandish, and it shows that Holder desires to be different from everyone around him. At the…

The two books that I am comparing are The Catcher in the Rye. and Lord of the Flies. The two books are really interesting and are really opposite yet the same in many ways. In The Catcher in the Rye. Holden is an idealistic character who becomes more of a realist as the novel progresses….

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger narrates the journey of Holden Caulfield, an adolescent boy grappling with his sense of self. Although Holden yearns for adulthood, he also secretly clings to his youth and innocence. This is demonstrated when he pays for a prostitute but chooses not to engage in any sexual…

The Turn of the Screw and the Wuthering Heights can be considered as a ghostly narrative stories that involves mystery, love, and hatred. The plot of the two stories is of different settings but the main theme evolves on the presence of a ghost and its relative influences on the different characters involve. The Turn…

In Brave New World, Huxley emphasizes the idea that in order to achieve stability, individualism and relationships must be eradicated. The prevention of individualism is a prominent theme in the novel. To live in a Utopia, one cannot be an individual. Huxley highlights this from the beginning of the book, when he introduces the World…

In Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holder Coalfield, is introduced to the readers as a troubled young who desperately wants to protect his youthful innocence. Because Holder constantly faces harsh realities of adulthood and world, he is even more compelled to protect innocence. He wants to protect not only his, but also those around…

Views on America: Charles Dickens America in the 1800s was often understood by many countries in Europe to be a land that had finally managed to free itself of the various wrongs of the old world and institute a new era in which men were born free and died free, where all disputes were settled…

Alcohol is a highly profitable industry, with over $400 billion in purchases in the US alone in 2013, as reported by an economic website. It is pervasive, found in households and grand restaurants alike. However, alcohol is also a major contributor to the annual death rate and has ruined countless lives through excessive drinking or…

With Reference to “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” By Robert Louis Stevenson, explore how Stevenson presents the notion of the duality of man. How does this reflect the era in which it was written? When Robert Louis Stevenson first wrote “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, it was received with mixed emotions of shock and horror….