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a young man by the name of Gregor Samsa, A young salesman who lives with and financially supports his parents and younger sister. The story begins when Gregor wakes up one morning discovering that he has miraculously transformed into some kind of monst…

we are faced with in our journey through life". Ralph Waldo Emerson would agree with this quote, which was produced by LeJouret. This quote is similar to Emerson's "The American Scholar" in many different ways. Emerson believed that books are…

and twentieth centuries, Jane Austen has proven herself through her definitive grasp of the English language to have a heightened sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior. For a woman who had written three novels by her twenty-third…

and Prejudice is Lady Catherine de Bourgh's impromptu and audacious drop in on The Bennet household and her ensuing conversation with Elizabeth. This situation is extremely ironic because Lady Catherine's speech ends up having exactly the opposite…

author of the short story, Hawthorne, wants to show the world that perfection is not beauty and that science should not alter the way that nature set man on this world to be. He was a major asset to the transcendental movement, and this short story…

displays the ethnic social satire of Jewish people. As he clearly shows in his text, there is a distinct difference between middle-class Jews, upper-class Jews, Jews who acquired their wealth in America, and modern American Jews. Through the eyes…

the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is an example of a tragic hero, his flaws lead him to remain a failure, which symbolize the failures of the American Dream. There are many sections of the novel that show direct connections between the real world and the…

the protagonist, transforms from a hateful and violent rebel to an understanding, transcendental person. Right from the start, Bigger was a person who had little control over his life and his actions. His life was mainly controlled by his mother,…

for many centuries. Conflict which is incited by racism is often thought to be the worst of all conflicts because it is unfounded and based on utterly false beliefs. In society today, there are many racist people who put down and almost ostracize…

"Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either." A century earlier Edmond Rostand, a brilliant writer who sought to look back to the romantic past, argued this same point in his play Cyrano…