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Common Characteristics of The Trial and Nausea I am happy I took the opportunity to explore Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea and Franz Kafka’s The Trial. These novels are considered by many to be two of the definitive works representing Existentialist philosophy. Many other authors have dealt with the subject of existence in the form of a…

The Great Gatsby carefully reveals the domination women encountered in gender roles in the 1920’s. Several social norms existed that degraded the women in a way that even the women felt ashamed but accepted the role. They had no voice at this time and felt obligated to their husbands, because the male role was the…

Since the morning of human idea, adult male has sought to specify the relationships between all things environing him. He categorizes every life animal, labels every natural component and names every phenomenon. He so connects each object to another with a line and pull the line back to himself. This manner, he feels omnipotent, confidently…

Ignoring the detrimental issues of the world, does not cause them suddenly vanish from our own eyes, it only gives them time to flourish and expand into the beast that they aspired to become. Case in point: the decimation and near annihilation of an entire ethnic and religious group, the slaughtering of an innocent six…

There are people that believe that happy endings and easy love are not possible. Two classic authors portray this belief by creating sly antagonists that destroy the possible happy endings of the people around them. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway create strong female characters in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises that…

In a dystopian society, one is not limited to the sum of displeasure and lies that might transpire. The lines between dystopian and anti-utopian societies are similar in contrast, but offer a wide array of absent pleasure for the citizens of the totalarianistic state. Brave New World, a brainwashed utopia, written by Aldous Huxley, introduced…

Song has several recurring themes,including that of sexuality. Morrison effectivelydemonstrates these sexual themes relating to both sexes. Unlike in her other novels, both the men and women are”searching for love, for valid sexual encounters, and aboveall, for a sense that they are worthy.”(Bakerman 318) While Song of Solomon gives men a more prominent place, Morrisonalso…

Identity is a self-exploratory concept with a scope beyond all the defined boundaries that an individual and the corresponding society has set. If not provided with a universal sense and association, the illusion of identity can trap people in a never-ending cycle of self-preservation, prejudice, pride and arrogance. The world can prosper only when both…

The Kite Runner, for me, is a novel that drives my interests over the customs, traditions and the people of Afghanistan and away from its controversies. Although the novel can be over emotional and sometimes includes too many conversations, it was still able to give me with different points of views of different people. It…

“My Antonia,” by Willa Cather has many symbols through out the novel. Symbolismreflects her own views as a child through her life. Some of these symbols are Jim’sgrandomother’s garden and snake-killing incident. Jim’s grandomother’s garden made him fell as a part of nature, as human beingsoriginally were in the Garden of Eden. When he came…