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| A Clockwork Orange (book analysis) |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… many school systems, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange first seems to pierce the mind with its bizarre linguistic orgy of debauchery, brutality, and sex, and for some, refuses to affect them above the level of pure voyeurism and bloodlust (either…
Details: Words: 583 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Clockwork Orange 2 |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… humanity as a whole is progressing to a better future where we will live united and in peace with one another. Nevertheless, there are those among us that do not share these beliefs. In A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, a futuristic world is turned…
Details: Words: 916 | Pages: 3.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Clockwork Orange 3 |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and main character, Alex. Writing in a…
Details: Words: 1301 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Comparison Between Chaucer’s Knight, and the knight from the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… who are involved in this fictional journey and who will tell the tales. One of the most interesting of the characters introduced is the Knight. Chaucer refers to the Knight as “a most distinguished man” and, indeed, his sketch of the Knight is…
Details: Words: 1062 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| Aeneid |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… the significance of authority by reiterating the need for Aeneas to fulfill his destiny in relation to pietas, devotion to family and country, as the central Roman virtue in the underworld. Virgil successfully uses the underworld to capture and dramatize…
Details: Words: 1212 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Comparison of Catcher in theRye and Pygmalion and Their Themes |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… Themes They Represent
In J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, muses at one point on the possibility of escaping from the world of confusion and “phonies” while George Bernard Shaw’s main character of…
Details: Words: 2132 | Pages: 9.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A comparison of racism in Of mice and men and The Withered Arm. |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… and ‘The Withered Arm’
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California. ‘Of Mice and Men’ is also set in Salinas, California, USA, during the depression of America. This was a time of unemployment and economic decline. During the American depression…
Details: Words: 11964 | Pages: 50.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Comparison of the characters in Romeo and Juliet and the West Side Story |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… change the course of events in theirs, as well as, other individuals’ lives. In both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, the lovers were forced to take their own lives or be killed because of fate and the actions of others.
In Romeo and Juliet,…
Details: Words: 540 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| a critique of tuesdays with morrie |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… idea for me to read Tuesdays With Morrie, my perception of the memoir was that it was an account of an old man dying. This did not seem, to me, to be the most interesting topic to read about. I reluctantly began the book and soon became quite involved…
Details: Words: 744 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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| A Doll House by Ibsen |
Category: /Literature / Novels
… Doll House” written by Henrik Ibsen. His wife’s name is Nora. She is a housewife with three children and gets help raising them from her maid Helen. Nora and Helmer are both busy people within their lives. Little do they know that their marriage is not…
Details: Words: 872 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
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