Essays on Novel

According to Hetherington The novel Frankenstein was written in 1816 and published in 1818, with romantic themes such as the pitfalls of knowledge and the importance of emotions, the despair of human inability to interfere with one's own goodness, the agony of looking, the solitary hero, and the irresistible force of...

Throughout our journeys, we encounter many people who have an impact on our lives. The plot is used by the writers to illustrate their point. I saw a most amazing little boy. In Little Prince, the pilot meets the little sovereign, and Little Prince meets a...

Arthur Miller's "The Price"Arthur Miller's "The Price" is a novel about two estranged twins, Victor and Walter Franz, who reunite after their father's death. Walter is a successful business owner, while Victor is a police officer with few opportunities (Miller). Their years apart have strained their relationship, with Victor feeling...

Flannery O'Connor's "A Decent Man is Hard to Find"Flannery O'Connor's tale "A Decent Man is Hard to Find," published in 1953, is arguably based on what has become today's proverb "a good man is hard to find." Critically, one might say that O'Connor may have taken a special interest in...

Dawn, by Octavia E. Steward, is a novel about the plight and optimism of people who have been ravaged by a devastating war. Any of the human survivors were rescued mostly for their own gain by an alien race. The aliens, dubbed the Oankali, are nothing like humans. They are...

One of Poe's works featuring the detective C Augustine Dupin is The Purloined Letter. Notably, Poe is credited with inventing and establishing the mystery fiction genre through The Purloined Letter and other stories of the same caliber. Notably, the Purloined Letter incorporates many elements that demonstrate the crime fiction genre....

The core theme of Matt De La Pena's book, I Will Save You, seems to be love. The topic of love is seen and demonstrated, as is the desire for it by all. The author describes how love is important, how it can save lives, and how love must be...

Introduction: Social Expectations and Marriage It is a widely accepted fact that a single man with a good fortune must be in need of a wife. This is how Jane Austen's book "Pride and Prejudice" begins. This first line demonstrates how the speaker presents the perception of social expectations as playing...

An individual's decisions and behavior can affect the course of his or her life, and even the smallest of those actions can have a significant effect. Sue Monk Kidd's novel "The Invention of Wings" advocates the idea that a person's decisions and behaviors affect the course of his or her...

Jhumpa Lahiri's novel "The Namesake" (2004) The Namesake is a fictitious story rich with themes that illuminate the various encounters that refugees are often subjected to and must contend with, the clashes caused by cultural disparities, the contradictions of accommodation and assimilation with human diversities and values, and the distorted relations...

In the book, The Great Gatsby The setting is in America, showcasing a range of themes that the author depicts in the reading. Of the subjects, the author places the most emphasis on the subject of social stratification. Other themes include strength, corruption, justice, betrayal, and the American dream (Fitzgerald 10). Fitzgerald’s...

The novel Minty Alley by C.L.R James touches on the lives of Indian Coolies and descendants of West African slaves in Trinidad. Mrs. Rouse is enraged but unsurprised by Mr. Benoit's deception as her husband, who has gone to live with another woman. Benoit is ideally Mrs. Rouse's common-law partner....