… backgrounds. Edith Wharton was high society. Grazia Deledda was a commoner from another country. Though both wrote almost exclusively to their won regions, their portrayal of women was quite similar. In Wharton's Ethan Frome she has two women, both…

… reflects values upheld Victorian English Society more-so than shaping the values. Firstly, an example of a reflected value is the concept of a pursuit of knowledge in the novel. Another example of a reflected value in the text is the use…

… is the ability of relationships to change the individual. In Maestro, this is illustrated by all the characters, especially Paul. At the beginning of the story, Paul is arrogant, egocentric and quite shallow, as he judges people by their outward appearan…

… approaches Some intellectual tendencies deeply mark the criticism in the XXth century. Criticism becomes a theoretical method elaborated from the humanistic sciences. Contemporary literary critics propose new reading of the work from a model of analys…

… written during Russia's height of communism power. Orwell cleverly disguises the true meaning and message of his novel 'Animal Farm' behind a fairy story. Writers such as Orwell often use social criticism in their books to show corruptness or weak…

… recalls an incident from his days as an English imperial officer in Burma, where he finds himself at the mercy of a hooting crowd of Burmese villagers eager to see him shoot an elephant gone "must". If it deals with, as Orwell himself states, "a…

… a business trip to his family. He expects joy and excitement at his homecoming from his daughters and is surprised by their indifference. He meets his daughters and they begin to behave in an alarmingly violent fashion. He panics but the 'game' ceases…

… creates characters with either a malicious or evil feature to relay to the reader a more allegorical meaning. In the story " Rapaccinni's Daughter" he uses Beatrice as a carrier of a deadly poison. Beatrice's relationship with Giovanni is the main plot…

… set during WWII. The book is about a group of 12-year-old boys who have been evacuated onto an island as their aeroplane is shot down near Spain. Nobody knows where they are, and their only hope of getting off the island is to send signals and…

… on the joy and pain of existence. Her poetry is compressed, sharp, but sometimes ambiguous. It is very interesting because she exploits the potentialities of the form as much as the capacities of the semantics. In "After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling…