… Two Cities is Sydney Carton. It is necessary for all tragic heroes to be accompanied by a tragic flaw. Sydney Carton’s tragic flaw is love. Ultimately the tragic flaw leads to the downfall of the character. Carton’s clouded state of mind places…

… Conrad displays the imperfections of Imperialism. Conrad uses symbols and contrasts to portray theses imperfections. The novel is about a young man traveling up a dangerous river in the heart of the jungle. He gets a job as a captain of a steamboat…

… Even such a seemingly insignificant person such as Clarisse had the most profound affect on him. One Second he his following the path of his society, and the next he his starting to doubt his ways after a few chats with a young girl. In the beginning…

… Peace, Gene is portrayed as an average boy in high school. The novel takes place during World War II, when Gene is in summer school and the following school year. The story has very few characters, most of them being Gene’s peers. Some of these…

… has been busy all his life on many more fronts besides being a pioneer of the world of literature. Chaucer was the first poet to use many meters and stanza forms, and to blend the French and Italian styles of writings with English. He, for the…

… woman in front of me and a man to my left, last week I read John Grisham's The Firm on the plane back from America. As we disembarked at Heathrow we three smilingly acknowledged one other, guiltily recognising our complicity in some unfathomed conspiracy…

… people, we sometimes find out that certain characters change in a way more suitable for a film version. This is the case of the novel 'Frankenstein' written by Mary Shelly in 1818. It was recreated in several different versions of film. The particular…

… Seth, is a former slave who chooses to kill her baby girl rather than allowing her to be exposed to the physically, and emotionally damaging horrors of a life spent in slavery. There is no other way to say it: she murdered her child. By killing her…

… decline of a well-established and well-known southern aristocratic family. The novel’s main focuses are the moral decay of the Compson family and time (not letting go of the past). Throughout the novel we see how the values of the Compson family,…

… strives to be. It is a type of person that everyone can look up to, try to emulate, and look to in times of distress. Although everyone is different in their own respects, there are characteristics common to most great leaders that can be picked…