Novel Essay Examples Page 27

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels provide an unparalleled insight into the breed of rich Americans who lived their young-adulthoods during post-WWI. The main characters of his books encounter these pompous aristocrats with often devastating ramifications. Nick Caraway of The Great Gatsby witnesses his wealthy cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom, mar the lives of many members…

Webster defined “symbol” with these words: “Something concrete that represents or suggests another thing that cannot in itself be pictured. ” This concept has been particularly applied to literature and used by writers throughout history. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter uses multitudes of symbols in such a manner. One of the most prominent, and most…

“Does Greene raise his characters from mere functions in a ‘detective’ novel to characters whose motivations are believable? ” Use two characters to illustrate your argument. Brighton Rock, by Graham Greene, is a book based in 1930’s underworld Brighton. The novel is based on the tale of Pinky, a teenage gangster, and his conflict against…

The Red Badge of Courage is a novel by Stephen Crane about a boy, Henry Fleming, “who is caught up in an unnamed Civil war battle… and in his struggle to find reality amid the nightmarish chaos of war… discovers courage, humility and perhaps wisdom. ” The book begins with a regiment of soldiers awakening…

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens begins the novel with oxymorons. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” This beginning of the first paragraph is a great way to begin a book full of doubles and…

The governess see’s it as her duty to protect Miles and Flora. What do the children need protection from and how does Henry James illustrate this in his novella ‘The Turn Of The Screw’? Henry James is a widely recognised author who has written many great pieces of work and one of his most widely…

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Awakening by Kate Chopin both show the life of a woman in a half-dreamy stupor, overzealously running around looking for something but not knowing what it is they are looking for. They feel immensely dissatisfied with the lives they are stuck with and find suicide to be the…

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel about a young boys coming of age in Missouri of the mid-1800s. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, spends much time in the novel floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim. Before he does so, however, Huck spends some…

In 1932, Aldous Huxley first published the novel, Brave New World. It is about the future and what life will be like then. The novel starts in the year 632 A. F. After Ford the god of the New World. Great War has destroyed all of the old civilization. This brings in the new civilization,…

“You are not your job. You are not how much you have in the bank. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can’t sleep. What happens then is there’s a gun in your mouth. And what…