… the narrative in 'The Moonstone' During the period The Moonstone was written (in the late 1860's), detective novels were unheard of. This made Collins objective all the more challenging. He had set out to write a detective stories that would get…

… to viewers how he would have liked them to see the events of the play. However, his speech, albeit elegant and characteristic of Othello's extravagant and Romantic use of language, is flawed, ironic and thus it is impossible to see the events of the…

… 19th century and was completed entirely in May 1817. Mary Shelley had decided to base her novel on the story about the Greek god, Prometheus. Prometheus and his borther Epimetheus were given the task of creating man. It was Epimetheus'job to create…

… due to the catastrophic downfall of the protaganist Tess. From the early days in her life, her father John had begun to destroy her, which then led to Alex D'Urbervill and eventually finished with Angel clare. Each dominant male figure in her life…

… <Tab/> Ray Bradbury's novel, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, depicts a grim and also quite feasible prediction of a futuristic world. In Bradbury's technology-obsessed society, a clear view of the horrific effects that a…

… you won a million dollars in the lottery? Never mind your chances of winning are just slightly better than the chances of being abducted by aliens. Even so, winning the lottery is a favorite daydream for a lot of us. <Tab/>If I had…

… by Vladimmir, one of the main characters in Waiting for Godot, to Estragon. It is evident throughout the story that the central theme is hope. Vladimir and Estragon or Didi and Gogo, wait throughout the play for Godot, a character who never arrives.…

… both written by Elie Wiesel, are two books that have changed the way people view life and death. Night is a story of the Holocaust that occurs in the time frame of the mid-1900s. Elie, the author and the main character of Night, tells of the horrific…

… 1930s? Cassie came to see racism and 'how things are' in a number of incidents. Cassie still young was oblivious to racism that surrounded her. Throughout the book she learns more and more about the past and what is going on around her. Cassie…

… soar high, live in beautiful places and to be the rulers of the sky. But for some, this is not the case. Man has imprisoned these magnificent creatures in cages, preventing them from spreading their large wings and knowing the freedom and joy of owning…