… the authors, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Gustave Flaubert, use children to reflect the consequences of their parent’s actions. The authors portray these consequences through the children with the of the purpose of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary and Marmeladov…

… Pushkin was a Russian 19th century who has often been considered his country’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Alexander Pushkin blended Old Slavonic with vernacular Russian into a rich, melodic language. He was the first…

… Many feminist during the early nineteenth century fought for the abolition of slavery around the world. The slave narrative became a powerful feminist tool in the nineteenth century. Black and white women are fictionalized and objectified in the…

… "the Lottery" are Ironic. Jackson sets the stage of her story in a seemingly normal village. She establishes this normalness by describing the activitys of the townspeople. She tells how "The town has all the usual sights like the post office,…

… of Annie Sullivan and her efforts to teach a girl named Helen Keller who was blind, deaf, and therefore mute. Everything started when Helen’s parents realized that Helen was getting out of control and was starting to become a problem. After thinking…

… The Wizard of Oz has lost much of its innocence. Prior to 1964 The Wizard of Oz was a tale of innocence that adults and children alike enjoyed. They viewed The Wizard of Oz as an escape and thought the story to be fun, exciting and pleasurable. However,…

… a great many wonder drugs where the cure is almost worse than the disease. Every year a new edition of medical text books contains a longer and longer chapter on what are called iatrogenic diseases, that is to say, diseases caused by doctors. --Aldous…

… for acceptance and be denied? The main character of John Gardner’s book, Grendel, does through out the entire story he is repeditly shunned. Despite the fact that Grendel is harmless in the beginning he turns to a life of terror because the towns…

… device. The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima, is no exception. The author uses the setting to develop the novel, and tie it together. He makes many references to the sea and the sound of the waves. Mishima uses this setting to show how it incorporates…

… man at sea struggles with loneliness and moral dilemma. However, the narrator has saved himself on multiple levels by the end of the novel. His confidence grows as he learns about himself, as well as when he learns of Leggatt, a man much like him. Throug…