... commercial, industrial society. The mode focuses on interpersonal relations and the desire for social status within a society that is, paradoxically, socially stratified yet open to class mobility. Characteristically, the "great expectations" of the protagonist in Dickens's novel of the same name (1860-1861) are to rise to the higher social class of "gentleman" and to gain an independent income. In a ... . The Zionists protested that the character was presented in the same way that Jews were vilified in the Nazi paper Der Sturmer. American critics attacked the film's alleged anti-Semiti...

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... fictional novel by modifying the content in their writing, but new innovations and creativity the writing included transformed the act of reading and the expectations they have have. Revealing more detail, and elaborate artistic illustration of setting, and descriptions can make reading cinematographic. Gustave Flaubert as a modernist ... pleasure seeking ignorance will always be present. Despite t dedication society deems to have with morality and ethics, the pleasure seeking, superficial expectations of people can be relentless and conquer security and ethical assets in life. The overa...

• Word Count: 3767
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi ... is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fiction...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi ... is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fiction...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... companions, Stephen works to formulate his theories about art. While he is dependent on his friends as listeners, he is also determined to create an independent existence, liberated from the expectations of friends and family. He becomes more and more determined to free himself from all limiting pressures, and eventually decides to leave Ireland to escape them. Like his namesake, the ... of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Joyce's innovative use of stream of conciousness, a style in which the author directly transcribes the thoughts and sensations that go through a character's...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... scope of action gives us a strong sense of the confined nature of a woman's existence in early-nineteenth-century rural England. Emma possesses a great deal of intelligence and energy, but the best use she can find to make of these is to attempt to guide the marital destinies of her ... that make up the novel as a whole. Conversational Subtexts - Much of the dialogue in Emma has double or even triple meanings, with one character interpreting a comment one way and another a different way. Sometimes these double meanings are apparent to individual characters, and sometimes they are apparen...

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... were booted out of Spain in the reconquest. So the readers are placed in a particular time that reverberates with historical significance. Traveler Leo Africanus goes on to make contact with a great many cultures and societies, from Muslim to Christian to pagan Berbers, and finds that the world is a turmoil of business and trade, religious intolerance, political maneuvering, travel to beautiful foreign ... , the characters and in particular the behavior and characterizations of the women. Fatima, Hiba, Nur, Madelenna and Mariam represented an interesting cross-section of women from diffe...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the book While I Was Gone if she had written in third person. If a reader reads a novel that is in first person they feel connected with that character. When something bad happened to Jo, the reader felt her pain. Some readers may have had emotions towards Jo that weren't what Jo was feeling. First ... Everyone has things they need to think about and some of those things are better kept private. Jo was someone who hadn't looked at her life with a great deal of care; she was a person of action. She was a very decisive person. That was what made Jo appealing. It was also what made it ......

• Word Count: 2528
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• Grade Level: High School