Essays on Novel

Thesis: Kant s book on observation of the sublime and the beautiful contains numerous themes which can be directly compared to Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Themes in the Kant s What is enlightenment are also deeply in comparison to how Mary Shelley s Frankenstein theme were or not...

From the Novel clay walls novel The division of Korea in the middle of twentieth century made Haesu to shift to the United States. While in this country, she faced discrimination in various ways. For instance, she was forced to abandon her native country against her will, and was also not...

In the story, Half Broke Horses, the author, Jeannette narrates the story of Lily Casey, her grandmother, from Lily's point of view. Hence, Lily is the main character in the novel, and the plot of the story primarily revolves around her. Lily was brought up in two different ranches, the...

Gatsby presents Daisy as one character who on the narrow view is very apparent and shallow. Nevertheless, there is something in her that she fails to expose to anybody, herself included. This is because she hides her real character traits which made it even so difficult for the author to...

In Krista Foss’s debut novel, the former journalist, teacher, and a writer residing in Smoke River, Hamilton, presents the impacts of land struggles over a region of new residential partition between the non-natives and the Mohawks. There is a high likelihood that the excerpt of Salamanders was most likely enthused...

The Southern Thruway by Julio Cortazar The Southern Thruway by Julio Cortazar is a narrative that revolves around the humans' collective response to a similar problem. The traffic jam experienced on the main highway from Southern France to Paris is characterized by the slow movement of cars, irritated drivers and passengers,...

The novel by William Faulkner is about Abner Snopes who is charged with arson. The charges are that he burnt his employer’s barn. At the beginning of the novel, he is shown being tried as his son Colonel Satoris ‘Sarty’ Snopes sits in the makeshift courtroom, and there is also...

Alice Walker's "Everyday Use": A Story of Heritage and Education Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” is a narrated story about a mother who has a conflicting relationship with her two daughters. The story is set in the sixties and seventies. Superficially, the story shows how the mother rejects her elder daughters' misplaced...

Edward Rochester is a controversial and fictitious character in the two books; Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. In both novels, Mr. Rochester played a significant role though it is challenging to draw parallels between the two works. In both books, Rochester plays the...

In Neil Smith’s “Scrapbook”, he presents his characters as an aftermath of a massacre that has happened in Robertson Hall in Scotts University ten days ago. In the tragedy, ten victims lost their lives and more others like Thomas and Myuko narrowly escaped death. Although the survivors struggle to continue...

Through A Rose for Emily, Faulkner illustrates the fight that is brought about from an effort of maintaining culture and tradition when there is prevalent radical change. Characters such as Jefferson is seen to be at crossroads absorbing everything modern, hoping for a more commercial future while at the same...

Historical novel is a novel subgenre that has an historical setting. Also referred to an historical fiction, historical novel comprises of fictional characters blended into historical setting and facts. According to Buendia, “To define the historical novel strictly speaking means simply saying that a novelistic action unfolds in the past;...