Books Essays

In many literary works the author uses contrast to display the difference between good and evil. Most often this contrast is between light and dark images. Dark representing evil and light representing good. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the author uses many different medians to display the contrast between …

The characters, Tess and Jane are both the main characters of the novels ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles’ and ‘Jane Eyre’, respectively. ‘Tess of the D’urbervilles’ is based on the experiences of Tess. Whereas, ‘Jane Eyre’ is an autobiographical book about Jane. The two novels are based in the past when …

We as humans, take delight in trying to figure out what the people around us are like. We analyze what they do, what they say, what they’ve done and offer predictions as to what they will do. As we read a novel we do the same, even though a character …

“Over the main entrance the words, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, and in a shield the World State’s motto, Community, Identity, Stability.” (Huxley,1) As Brave New World opens, the ideas of this motto initially seems like a decent idea. As the book develops I found there is no community, …

The novel begins with the main character, Pip, encountering a runaway convict. Pip procures supplies for the man from his house. The convict then gets into a fight with another runaway convict and is take back to jail. Pip is soon after invited to the house of Miss Havisham, a …

These two books, despite the vastly different themes and story lines, both display similar meanings. Orwell’s story tells of farmyard disorder and the fatal lives of a group of farmyard animals. It is just as politically minded as Golding’s tale of a life or death situation for a group of …

Tragedy is defined as “a dramatic or heroic or literary work depicting a protagonist engaged in a orally significant struggle ending in ruin of profound disappointment.” Hemingway’s, the Old Man and the Sea is no doubt a very tragic novel. The story starts off with the narrator explaining how Santiago, …

The area of social stratification has been the starting point of many arguments about how and why societies are divided. Some societies will shout that they are classless whilst others will construct a whole culture around the divisions within. Individuals will vehemently point out that they are from one class …

President Theodore Roosevelt and the progressives made their greatest success in the fields of conservation and consumer protection. Not many people would stand against them, making them successful. Roosevelt stood against greater opposition on the other progressive issues that could have been more prosperous, yet were not so widely accepted. …

It’s never too late to Amend There is famous saying that, “Life repeats following a circular path. That is why history repeats itself”. Circularity has a strong connection to the main theme in the novel- sin and atonement. This idea is portrayed throughout Khaled Hosseini’s first novel The Kite Runner. …