… biologist who brought us closer and educated people about the ocean. He has invented countless items including the aqua lung which was the first type of scuba gear, allowing divers to stay underwater for longer periods of time. <Tab/>Jacq…

… Margaret Atwood recounts the story of a totalitarian state, Gilead, which endorses the dehumanization of women with the excuse of effacing all scurrilous events and resolving a catastrophic problem of waning population rates. Gilead's tyrannical power…

… and naturalness, a love of plain feelings and truth to common place reality, especially as found in natural scenes". Nathaniel Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist and believed in the dark side of man, hence his dark romantic novel The Scarlet…

… wood, and I-- / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference" (Frost "The Road Not Taken" 18-20). Two great pieces of literature, Frost's poem and Reginald Rose's play 12 Angry Men, treat the theme of making difficult decision…

… crisis that comes." says Fritz Kunkel. This postulate is demonstrated through the character Paul in Conrad Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow. This young boy is beginning to mature and grow out of his childhood, and he goes through a state of repudiation…

… for having put him through such hard tasks. He tells him that as compensation he will allow the marriage between him and his daughter. Ferdinand agrees with his father-in-law to be who threatens that he must not sleep with her before they are married…

… is a good representative of the detective genre. The following criteria, that this novel fulfils, classifies it as a detective novel: There is a crime or mystery to be solved, One person (or a group of people) is either a detective or an adult or…

… wrote "The Time Machine" in 1895. It was the first novel by Wells and was to be the story that launched H.G. Wells successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. Wells went on to write more books such as "The…

… War was raging in Europe, The U. S. was immersed in their own struggle between Pro- and Anti- war supporters. The national government took their usual side of supporting the war, after several devastating events backed them into a corner. Despite the…

… describes to the audience that it is a "memory play", hence it has: "...dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic." These features prove to the audience and reader that dreams often have to do with illusions and the lack of reality,…