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            “The Fall” is a novel written by Albert Camus about a lawyer, Jean-Baptiste Clamence, who previously belonged to the elite class of society and worked as one of the best in his field. Among the distinct aspects of the story is the shaping of Clamence to converse with the readers about his beliefs in…

In the undermentioned essay. I will analyze the development of Plath’s poesy through analysis of major subjects and imagination found in her description of landscapes. seascapes. and the natural universe. Following the lead of Ted Hughes. critics today tend to read Sylvia Plath’s poesy as a integrity. Individual verse forms are best read in the…

White Fang By London, Jack Published by Waldman Publishers Corp This animal is part dog, part wolf, this animal as a lot of strength and courage. White fang is an lonely orphan dog which lives in the frozen frontier of Yukon. Where he is abused by this mean guy who always abuses and mistreats wolves…

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses the motif of affairs to show development in Daisy Buchanan’s character. As a reader slowly pieces together what is the love puzzle of this novel, it becomes clear to them Daisy’s true self. Starting off the novel Fitzgerald uses Tom’s affairs with Daisy(his wife) and Myrtle(his mistress)…

“Setting” is a word used to describe the place, time, assumptions and values of a society In a story. In the Scarlet Letter, the setting was in the Puritan town of Salem In Massachusetts Bay Colony circa 1640. Being that the era and location of the backdrop is in a 17th century Protestant Puritan village,…

The Scarlet Letter. Pleasantries, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, 1984. Print. The Scarlet Letter, and Abigail Williams, from “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, have both committed a crime and they are both hated by their societies. However, there are also differences between the two characters. Hester Prying is the more respectable Puritan woman of the two…

Writing to Clyde Smith on May 9, 1931, Howard mentions two new pulps, Strange Tales and Soldiers of Fortune, and states he will be submitting stories to both of them and suggests Smith write something for Soldiers of Fortune, a historical story magazine: I see where the Claytons are bringing out a new magazine dealing with weird…

John Steinbeck uses various characters such as Crooks, Lennie, and Curley’s wife to portray the theme of alienation and loneliness in his novel, Of Mice and Men. I. Among the main characters in the book, Lennie’s distinct mental and physical qualities alienate him from the others. His mental handicap and “lack of adult intelligence” prevent…

Winston Smith is one of many people in Orwells prediction of the world in the future but is todays past. The world appears as a dark and fearful place where the only rhyme or reason is created by Big Brother, ruler of the state and the head member of the Party. All of the above…

            Frankenstein’s monster, perhaps, one of the most well known characters of fictional writing is seen to be the embodiment of a detached being with no propensity for caring and loving.  Much like this well known character, another character, Edward Scissorhands is also portrayed as a detached being who is uneasy with all human interactions…