Novel Essays

At first glance a book entitled, ‘I’m the King of the Castle,’ might make a potential reader envisage a novel about petty power struggles between two young children, who know nothing of the evil in the world around them. As the reader looks closer and becomes engrossed within its pages, …

Dickens’ places a heavy load on opposite forces in A Tale of Two Cities. Such antitheses occur between polar characters and contrary settings, and they enhance the meaning of certain aspects of the novel to a great extent. A great example of Dickens’ use of antithesis can be found in …

When reading a book it is very important to read between the lines, to catch the hidden meanings and metaphors that lie within its pages. ” A Separate Peace ” is no exception as it is filled with metaphors which give the novel a concealed meaning and teach the reader …

Ghassan Kanafani is one of the famous Arab writers who represent resistance literature. His writings were mainly devoted to depict the struggle of his people and ignite new resistance acts against Israeli forces of occupation. The writer affirmed the strong determination of the Palestinian people to liberate their occupied lands …

“The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer, I lit …

There is nothing worse than feeling detested and abhorred by society, especially if this hatred is caused solely by one’s physical appearance. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley uses the Creature to show how people are inherently good, but compelled to become evil only when ostracized by their fellow man. Although the …

Examples of opposing symbols which one could compare and contrast to their use in the novel are: society and solitude, the character of Jane and the character of Mr. Rochester, the religion of Mr. Brocklehurst and of Helen Burns, the privileged child and the orphan, the structured garden and the …

 The Catcher in the Rye and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar are two entirely different novels with different themes at first glance, both tell tales of teenagers who are coming of age and learning responsibility. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of school and …

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, a society is presented in which every aspect of life is tightly controlled and humans are more like lifeless machines. However, in this attempt at a utopian society, glimmers of humanity are shown through several characters in the novel. Though the characters surrounding the …

1. Identify & explain 5 symbols found in text. Although Haroun and the sea of stories is a children’s literature, symbols which overlap as archetypes are used to make this novel contain a deeper meaning and be just as enjoyable for adults. Weather in this story symbolizes the current feeling …