… to examine the values and ideas of a novel through the character and portrayal of one character. Mary Crawford is a character central to the themes and events of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. At all significant points in the play, barring only Fanny’s…

… writing in two different lands and two different times. Lao-tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher from 6th century BC, the author of Tao-te Ching, and Machiavelli was an Italian philosopher who lived 2000 years after Lao-tzu’s time, author of Prince.…

… some sort of control over the people living in the United States and play a role in our every day lives. They give us rules to live by even though we are guaranteed our freedom in the Declaration of Independence. These rules we are expected to…

… and Eccentric Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing." Victorian Studies. Vol.41 No. 2. Indiana: Indiana University Press, winter 1998. Deborah Nord opens her essay with the declaring statement that nineteenth century literature…

… Alan Paton and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens are two very different books written in two very different periods. Cry, The Belovedplay a crucial role in developing the plot. Superficially it seems that these two books have absolutely nothing…

… cultural assumptions interact to benefit/disadvantage each member of the Chen family as they adapt to their new lives in Britain? James Watson ‘Between Two Cultures’, discovered through long sociological analyses, that the attitude of the Chen…

… Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which he stated, “Her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought.” The modern reader does believe that the novel contains a theme, message, and thought. There are many themes expressed through out…

… but also an important political reformer. Orwell was born in India in 1903. He considered his family a "lower-middle class" family. He said this because his family was a part of the middle class, but had little money. His father worked for the British…

… greatest epic poem of all time. The opening story of the character of Dante the Pilgrim is told in the first of the three divisions: The Inferno. The Inferno is a description of Dante’s journey down through Hell and of the several degrees of suffering…

… are obvious similarities between Victor and his creation; each is abandoned, isolated, and both start out with good intentions. However, Victor’s ego in his search for god-like capabilities overpowers his humanity. The creature is nothing but benevolent…