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The novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant is one of Tyler’s more complex because it involves not only the growth of the mother, Pearl Tull, but each of her children as well. Pearl must except her faults in raising her children, and her children must all face their own loneliness, jealousy, or imperfection. It is…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte was published in 1848, under the name of Currer Bell. Although the novel is over 150 years old, there are still themes that we can relate to today, such as bullying, prejudice and hypocrisy. In this essay, I am going to discuss the three themes mentioned and also consider admirable…

In what ways could “the Hound of the Baskervilles” be described as a gothic novel? A gothic novel is thought to be a novel of horrors and mysteries, it has a theme and a philosophy of the “world’s evil”, a representation of something supernatural and mysterious. Its plot is bound up with secret murders. There…

Horror is a tradition of writing, which has its roots firmly set in gothic novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Such gothic novels were what we now perceive as traditional horror, set in castles or convents with characters such as ghosts and elements of the supernatural. Although the horror novels have changed over the…

In the novel George and Lennie appear different to the other ranch hands because they stay together, what ever they decide to. The main reason for this is because Lennie has a mental age of a young child and not able to look after himself properly so George looks after him. Despite Lennie being confused…

I will be reviewing the fictional novel ‘Jane Eyre’, which was written by Charlotte Bronte. Issues which are relevant in this novel are that of feminism, social class, religion and spiritual themes. The book was written over a century ago, and before reading the book, I did question why anyone would be interested in a…

The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand tells the story of Equality 7-2521, an individual living in a communal society devoid of human individuality. In a future where there is no love, no science, and everyone is equal and of one entity, one man defies the group to be his own person. “I owe nothing to…

In view of the fact that The Mayor of Casterbridge was published weekly in 1886 in serialized form, Thomas Hardy had to keep the attention of his readers. He certainly managed to do so through the character of Michael Henchard. Hardy presents Henchard as a selfish, moody haytrusser whom the reader is able to love…

This essay will explore the ways in which R.L. Stevenson presented good and evil in his novel ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’, using symbolic opposites as metaphors to describe the natures of certain people in the, for example Mr. Hyde, Dr. Lanyon etc. The gothic/ Victorian setting for this novel ties in with the ‘good…

To James Joyce, the author of the Dubliners, Dublin was a city trapped by its place in history. He felt especially that it suffered from a kind of paralysis. The capital of Ireland was paralysed by England. He believed the Dubliners themselves were caught in the paralytic and imprisoning grip of poverty which he himself…