… the elements of the supernatural and feelings evoked throughout the story. Frankenstein is not a tale of a “monster story” as one may view it as, in actuality it is very typical of a Romantic Period style novel. With the description of nature, and…

… Golding, Piggy has a major role. He is the intelligence source of the group of boys that is trapped on this island. Yet Piggy does not make a good leader, nor does he fit the qualifications of a leader. His background, appearance, and personality are…

… Huxley’s novel, Brave New World, describes a society where every measure possible has been taken in order to create some kind of happiness amongst the citizens of this New World. The natural question to ask oneself is if everyone really is contented.…

… been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could not be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death." Jean Rhys, 1954 Jean Rhys is the author of many short stories and novels, of which perhaps Wide Sargasso Sea…

… of the Flies is not exactly fit the criteria of a happy ending. When Ralph saw the officer he was baffled instead of ecstatic and grateful for saving his life. Ralph was grievous and “wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and the…

… novella which depicts the difficult and lonely lives many came face to face with during the Depression. Lack of work, money, and companionship are not only issues that appear in the Depression, but in the hard, problematic lives of Crooks, Curley’s…

… and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted horses and the riders of that lost nation came down out of the north. . .When the wind was wild in the north you could hear them, the horses and the horses’ hooves that were shod in rawhide”…

… literary figure whose exploration of psychological and abstract themes foreshadowed 20th-century literature. His works remained in uncertainty until the 1920s, when his genius was finally recognized. Melville's father, Allan, was a trade merchant…

… Colony in the late 1600s, people were uneasy about strangers and strange behavior. Puritans worried about the “evil eye”, where a sudden illness or death of a pig was commonly misconstrued for “devil’s work”. It was a place where anyone different was…

… actions that are “wrong” or “different.” Although times have changed and always will in the future, their are many situations that call for the rules or laws to be bent. Personally, I come across these situations daily and still say, “That’s not fair!”…