Novel Essays and Research Papers

Te In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tess is faced with many different levels of happiness, from pure joy to absolute unhappiness. As she moves from location to location, the setting of these places portrays Tess’ joy. From her pure happiness at Talbothay’s Dairy, to the turning point of Tess’s joy…

Frank Mccourt’s Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes is a powerful and emotional memoir of his life from childhood through early adulthood. This book is a wonderfully inspired piece of work that emotionally attaches the reader through McCourt’s life experiences. Its effectiveness is primarily due to McCourt’s evolving ‘innocent-eye’ narrative technique. He allows the reader…

When Frances Burney wrote Evelina in the Eighteenth Century, she was able to capture the essence of what it meant to be a female at this time in history. Throughout the novel, the character of Evelina captures the hearts of those around her. Mr. Villars describes Evelina as this artless young creature, with too much…

In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, the protagonist and victim is a young woman named Tess Durbeyfield. She is a well-educated, yet she is quite naive. Unfortunately, her inexperience with how the world works and men and her naivety would lead her to make a few wrong choices as fate would…

Dodie Smith’s novel I Capture the Castle is a journey through the mind of a young writer as she attempts to chronicle her daily life. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain has recently learned to speed-write, and she decides to work on her writing skills by describing the actions and conversations of those around her. Cassandra lives in…

In the film The Maze Runner by James Dashner and the novel Divergent by Veronica Roth, both authors or directors have chosen to focus on a similar theme. Both examples are set in a disastrous Dystopian world where the two young main characters are “immune” to a particular type of virus, experiment or test. In…

Tamil Novel – Ne Varuvai Enna Prema “Ne Varuvai enna” is the one of my favorite collections of novel. My grandma prescribed this book to read. I am not a well-versed in reading but it tempt me to read within 2days. ‘Ne Varuai Enna’-is the novel about the middle class girl who struggle in the…

The characters in Katherine Anne Porters The Jilting of Granny Weatherall include Ellen Weatherall and the people who made up the memories and her present reality. They represent the sum total of Granny Weatheralls experiences, her relationships, her suffering, her endurance, and finally her passing. The characters and memories offer Granny no resolution and no…

The perception of Hester’s A has changed throughout the novel. In the beginning, the scarlet letter on her chest was a symbol of her sin. It was intended to be part of her punishment by providing her with humiliation, much like on the scaffolding scene. In about the middle of the novel, the meaning of…

Leo Tolstoy’s novel, Anna Karenina, upon its release received a mix critical reception, with Russian critics either condemning or applauding the novel primarily on its views of Russian society. Thematically, the novel parallels its heroine’s, Anna Karenina, moral and social conflicts with Constantin Levin’s internal struggle to find the meaning of life. There are many…