… faith -- specifically, the relationship between faith and doubt in a world in which there is no obvious evidence for the existence of God. John writes on the first page of the book that Owen Meany is the reason that he is a Christian, and ensuing…

… Truth or myth? The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, is a combination of all of them. It takes place in the summer of 1692 in Salem Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials. This story is actually based upon real events, yet the truth has been indulged…

… wars and famine, peace-time and floods, few things have persisted to survive. Society, art, and other intangible objects as these are survivors of two millennia of human “progress”. Intelligent concepts and premises have also survived, as have emotions…

… incorporated into the plot in order to compliment and help portray Hamlet’s individual character. Hamlet’s character, though extremely complex and intricate, is also surprisingly immature and unpredictable. These characteristics can be seen in Hamlet’s…

… is used to show regret and guilt in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s lives. It also represents Macbeth’s untamed killing spree. It also represents Lady Macbeth losing her sanity. In addition it represents the end of Macbeth. In Act I, Scene ii, Duncan…

… characters are not like regular people (whatever that means). They are personifications of different states of mind. To use these characters is a clever and original way to present a story. Dickens childhood put him in contact with evil and bad…

… could have been paradise quickly turned sour for a pack of British schoolboys stranded on an island. The disintegration of order also came when atavism rose and came to power. Ralph, Simon, Piggy, Jack and Roger all played key roles in the battle…

… embarks on a strange succession of plots and interacts with many strange characters. The characters he meets shape, and change him from being an earnest overachiever to a cynical recluse. One of the very first characters to change him was his grandfath…

… exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The Joad family…

… of the novella Candide, also known as "Optimism"(Durant and Durant 724). In Candide, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Gottfried William von Leibniz's theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward…