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In the novel “Of Mice & Men”, dreams play a very important role to many of the characters. As an example, dreams keep the drifting workers going and make them work harder; in hopes of one day making that dream come true. George and Lennies dream features as one of the main dreams in the…

The two books that I am comparing are The Catcher in the Rye, and Lord of the Flies. The two books are very interesting and are very opposite yet the same in many ways. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is an idealistic character who becomes more of a realist as the novel progresses,…

‘The Crucible’, the play made by Arthur Miller which is based on an historical event, the Salem witchcraft trials which took place in Massachusetts in 1692. He was inspired to write this novel because of what happened in America in the 1950’s.Tthe setting of the drama is in Salem, a small puritan society, which provides…

The epic poem Beowulf is the longest epic poem from the Anglo-Saxon period. In the Anglo-Saxon time its citizens required a functioning and intact society that depended on principles that were designed to create order out of Europe’s violent and unsophisticated past. Some of the principles that they depended on were loyalty, generosity, and courage,…

Ray Bradbury’s dystopian fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 is frequently viewed as his love confession for books. Ironically, the characters live in a society where hooks are outlawed and firemen are commissioned to remove them by burning every page to ashes. Throughout the story, Montag, the main character, experiences a gradual change in his attitude towards…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain and was published in the United Kingdom in 1884 and was published in the United States in 1885. Mark Twain is well known for writing in dialect and this story includes examples of several different dialects, including Midwestern, Southern, and African American dialects. Twain’s…

This article will describe the differences of great author Edgar Allan Poe’s popular stories and other popular stories made over the last centuries. They will be compared to The Scarlet Ibis, and A Day’s Wait. In the story the Cask of Amontillado, the plot of this story becomes how a friend (Amontillado) of Fortunato can…

Ray Bradbury the author of Fahrenheit 451, cautioned us of the results of blindly conforming to mass media and how you can miss nature around you. William Wordsworth, a poet of the Romantic era, focussed on how people should favor nature over the artificial. Bradbury and Wordsworth both had similar views on what was important…

Ray Bradbury‘s novel, Fahrenheit 451, thoroughly and meticulously characterizes Guy Montag, a man who refuses to conform to a society repudiating intellect and cogitation. Throughout the piece, Montag gradually begins to reveal a number of heroic attributes, such as his selfless actions to spare the life of the woman found harboring books and his attempts…

In Pride and Prejudice, Austen presents to the reader an eclectic array of characters which demonstrate varying attitudes towards women in addition to their wildly differing degrees of conformity to the traditional, and ‘prejudiced’, view of women. These fluctuating attitudes are particularly pertinent when contextualised into the upper-class societies in which Austen’s characters moved in,…