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The Sorrows of Young Werther is not a conventional love story between two people, it is truly a one-sided narration of events through letters sent by the hero of the story Werther to his friend Wilhelm. This genre of novels was called epistolary because it was a collection of documents or letters put together by…

Gothic literature became prominent in the latter half of the 18th century and grew more popular throughout the 19th century. Gothic novels consist of multiple themes and tropes mostly dealing with vice, and decay. However, there are novels like Lady Caroline Lamb’s, Glenarvon, that employs the femme fatal character, death, supernaturalism, melodrama and many other…

In today´s society everything is based off of religion. Both The Handmaid’s Tale, which was written between 1980 and 1986, and Persepolis, which was also written between 2000 and 2002, allows the reader to read about a society based off of religion. Both literatures shows custom laws. They make the the reader to think about…

In Albert Camus’ novel, “The Stranger”, the protagonist is in a difficult situation on a beach after a confrontation with a man of different ethnicity, the Arab. The author addresses the complex situation in the life of the protagonist, Meursault by using literary devices/ patterns to draw the reader’s attention. Throughout the writing, the author…

The novel Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a brilliantly scribed story about a young man who sees the world differently compared to others around him. Throughout the novel, author Mark Twain reveals a new vision of romanticism. As Huck and Jim travel together throughout the story, Huck has to battle what society is telling…

Jack Werber, a Holocaust survivor and author, stated, “Escape was not our goal since it was so unrealistic. What we wanted was to survive, to live long enough to tell the world what happened.” The idea of survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust is prolific in Elie Wiesel’s personal narrative, Night. The novel focuses…

An important theme of John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is the lack of loyalty. The characters all have a different, unique set of loyalties, with some being most loyal to groups and ideals, while others are more focused on their loyalty to moral values and other characters. Although their…

Religious changes were happening all over the world around the eighteenth century especially in early modern Europe which is depicted within Voltaire’s novel Candide, he depicts religion as a hypocritical view of life throughout his entire novel and uses terms within his book for the viewer to conclude his hypocritical view of religion such as…

The Title Relate to the Text An alchemist is a person who transforms or creates something and that title accurately represents Santiago and the storyline because it introduces Santiago’s life and background and then slightly indicates how he is about to embark on a journey to find a treasure. The title suggests that on his…

In their eyes were watching God, Huston let’s the viewers know that Janie’s hair is a symbolic her identity and her strength. In three different ways, first is the way of her independence and opposition of the the community. Second is the way he hair is symbolized as phallic symbol of which blurs out the…