Novel Essays and Research Papers Page 3

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…

The novel “Trash” by Andy Mulligan that has 3 main characters; Raphael, Gardo and Jun-Jun, explores many different themes through several different elements. The Reader can clearly tell that the 3 main themes/ideas in the novel trash are poverty, friendship and corruption. The theme of Poverty is explored through the element of setting. Poverty is…

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…

Charlotte Bronte, in her novel, Jane Eyre, establishes us with a first-hand account of a women’s triumph over hardships. Jain was born orphaned, poor, and grew up in an un-loving home. To add insult to injury, she was a woman in Victorian society; a subordinate position to begin with. Throughout the novel, Jane faces many…

She is a lecturer at the college where she got her M.A. and B.A., Durham university. She had 15 books published, and all of them became popular. Although it is accurate, she wrote it merely because she was so fascinated, not because she was paid to write a textbook. The Crystal Cave is a novel,…

This novel, as well as other novels he wrote were based partly on his experiences in high school, where he says, “the only way to get through high school alive was by laughing”. This novel relates to teenagers about high school and how their high school is different. Korman wrote his first novel at age…

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…

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 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…