… in both the novel and the movie but, with a few differences. What is the perfect match? To have a happy life? Be financially secure? Or does is have to be love at first sight? In both the novel and the movie, Emma still has the same intentions.…

… Tim Winton’s novel Cloudstreet is already an unofficial national treasure. This monumental piece is comparable to other masterpieces of the novel-cum-epic-theatre genre, such as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Nicholas Nicklelby or Shared Experience…

… November 14, 1959. That same morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their daily business, running errands and baking apple pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a long…

… titled First Impressions. This is significant because it reflects the values and attitudes of 19th century England, and portrays the main themes of the novel. It is set in England during the 1800?s and Austen focuses on a society whose opinions…

… Bird explores many aspects of a township in the 1920’s. Throughout the novel the characters emerge from situations as either victors or victims. Even though Maycomb is shown to be a quiet peaceful town, there is much hidden conflict that was commonly…

… by Ian Mudie, and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, my perceptions on identity and the change in identity, over a period of time have been deeply affected. The feature article Pride of Place, appearing in a ‘Good Weekend’, also The Wogboy, (directed by…

… Lee is recognised throughout the world. Having read her novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 soon after its publication, I was compelled to consider the novel in greater depth but was particularly intrigued to examine the character of Atticus…

… to it today. We usually use it to mean a systematic effort- in the press or through art, for example- to spread ideas that are probably false. Furthermore, we tend to think that propaganda has no place in novels or paintings. Sinclair rejected the…

… of Satire. All throughout the book Charles Dickens adds little bits of comedy/sarcasm to lighten up the mood of the storyline. In Great Expectations, although there is no set theme for satire Dickens tends to stick mainly to satirizing those…

… Letter’, three characters, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Mistress Hester Prynne, and Roger Chillingworth, of 17th century Puritan Massachusetts were tortured by moral conflicts dwelling within each one. The story begins as Hester Prynne is standing…