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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…

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…

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…

In “The Red Badge of Courage”, Henry Fleming is portrayed as unsympathetic due to his attitude and lack of concern for others. His interactions exhibit his self-centeredness and mindset. On page 66, Henry dismissively tells someone, “Now, don’t bother me!”. The author’s depiction of Henry’s desire to strangle the tattered soldier further reveals his feelings…

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…

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood shows us the literal impact of power and the identity of the people of Gilead. As it is shown and represented that commanders have the power and can do whatever they want but the handmaids rank in the lowest position and have no freedom and no right to speak….

‘The Great Gatsby’ is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that was published in 1925 during the ushering in of the Jazz age. The author uses the novel to display his own early life as reflected in the character of Nick Carraway, a young educated man from Minnesota who moves to New York after World…