… Crusoe manages to discover his natural abilities that serve as indicators of his true character. At first glance the common adage, “Necessity is the mother of all inventions,” appears to account for the character of Robinson Crusoe; however, further…

… Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, the three men in Janie’s life bring in new and different approaches to life. They all bring unique qualities that help Janie grow and ultimately become a happier person. Janie is just trying to fit in and find…

… what is expected,” as defined in Webster’s New World Dictionary. Irony is often times used in novels to raise the reader’s interest by making the novel more unpredictable. This literary phenomena is employed frequently in many novels, especially freque…

… be obsessed with the idea of physical perfection. Why does our society manifest that obsession? How is "The Birthmark" an early version of our modern obsession with physical perfection? Nathaniel Hawthorne uses these questions to obsess Aylmer to…

… and His Friends: A Biography, Jean De La Fontaine was born in 1621 in a French province, Champagne. Because of his indolent nature, his family decided to make of him a priest by sending him to a seminary. But young La Fontaine was not gifted for theology…

… Story of an Hour” So much can be done in an hour. A person’s entire life story can be heard in that duration of time. Kate Chopin uses an hour to tell the story of a woman who is afflicted with an ailment of the heart. The author uses irony…

… novelist who was and still is very popular. The second child of John and Elizabeth Dickens, Charles was born on February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth England. At that time John Dickens was stationed in Portsmouth as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office.…

… of the most widely used means of media in the world today. It provides people with everything from getting directions from one place to another, to downloading entire books that can be read on the computer without ever having to visit a library or…

… play A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, the story takes place in mythical Athens. Thereus, the reigning Duke, has taken over the Amazons and has fallen in love with their beautiful Queen Hippolyta. As the play opens, he proclaims that their wedding is…

… intercourse with the intermixing of other means” (Clauswitz). This dictum, so many times quoted, is from the most famous book on war – called On War – written by Carl Von Clauswitz, a Prussian veteran of the Napoleonic wars. Its simplicity gave…