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Beginning with the Italian Renaissance, political transformations began to shape Europe. By creating strong central governments and shifting the focus to humanity, Machiavelli consequently utilizes Th…

A dystopia is a place that is undesirable and frightening to live in. The word dystopia translates to "bad place". In a dystopia, people have an upsetting lack of personal freedoms. They are oppressed…

Do we have to be destructive in order to become constructive? In the novel Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presents a dystopian society set in the future, where books are burned, and nobody does any thin…

Matthew Lewis's 18th-century novel The Monk was written as a way for the author to project his anxieties about homosexuality and fear of exposure. This novel was quickly written in Lewis's youth while…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein greatly depicts the modern problems mankind is undergoing every day. With most scientists trying to find new ways to be able to sustain life more and create replacements fo…

In this novella, Curley's wife is not her own person, we can see through Steinbeck actions by not giving her a name throughout the whole story. She is a person who is mistreated just because of her ge…

Take a dive into the wild. The wilderness is void of nearly all human interaction. The only things that remain are trees, plants, and animals. The wild seems like a relaxing, beautiful getaway from so…

Have you ever experienced something difficult, but prepared you for something else? This is what happens to the character of Bean in Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. In the book, the world is overp…

"Remember this also: it's always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday. ten years ago. It's hard to see what we are."(Jack Finch) To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee …

John Steinbeck once said "Everyone in the world has a dream that he knows he can't come off but he spends his life hoping it may. This is at once the sadness, the greatness and the triumph of our spec…

"Guys like us that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They ain't got no family and they don't belong no place." Said, George. John Steinbeck wrote the award-winning fictional- traged…

George Orwell's 1984 Novel tells the story of a society that is considered communist by some school districts. In this terrible society, you are always being watched. The time of the story taking plac…

Powerlessness. Lacking power to act; helpless. The book 'Of Mice and Men' there are multiple themes. The theme I thought was most important was powerless. Because that's what the book is mainly about,…

How much has everything really changed? The segregation, murders, beatings, and injustices present in the 1950's and prior are still happening today. Both Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in 2020, and …

There is no need to harm or hurt others who are only there to help. While this seems like common knowledge and the kind thing to do To Kill A Mockingbird and the articles telling the story of Willy Ed…

Censoring books is brainless. It's understandable that you want to protect the people around you from things that might harm them, but censoring books is not the way to go about it. Books are the most…

Power can often take over a person's life. This especially can happen when it comes to political power. The book "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell is a story about corruption and too much power. …

"People aren't always going to be there for you. That's why you need to handle things on your own" -- Unknown. Janie is either forced into a relationship, or she finds one on her own. She goes through…

In the literary text of Rudolfo Anaya's, "Bless Me, Ultima", we come to learn that several characters have internal conflicts versus external conflicts. One of those characters includes Florence, who …

Within less than a decade more than 15 million Russian men, women, and children had met their demise from war. Brothers turn against each other in one of the bloodiest civil wars in human history that…

In the novel Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, the protagonist, Ha, and her family are constantly getting negative impact from the Vietnam War. One example to prove this is, In the poem "TiTi…

Introduction - In The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, we meet a girl named Hannah who hates family gatherings. Hannah finds herself in a great number of different events, some boring events, and so…

At the very beginning of the book "Harbor Me '' Jaqueline Woodson, Haley (the narrator) quotes a novel called A Tree grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Haley quotes this book because it talks about mem…

"Give me liberty or give me death." Patrick Henry. The hypocrisy of this statement is that Henry, like many other revolutionary characters, owned slaves themselves. He fought hard for freedom but with…

In Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel, Sister Carrie, he writes compellingly about the American Dream, revealing its flaws that are often overlooked. This novel tells the story of Caroline, who goes by "Si…

In Jay Asher's novel, 13 Reasons Why, a seventeen-year-old girl named Hannah Baker commits suicide, and with her death, a series of tapes she left behind about the reasons she committed suicide are re…

The achievements of the American dream come from hard work. This is the story of a guy named Gatsby. Nick Carraway is the Narrator of the Story. The Great Gatsby, who became a millionaire by participa…

Introduction - In The Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, we meet a girl named Hannah who hates family gatherings. Hannah finds herself in a great number of different events, some boring events, and so…

Lastly, the theme of civilization/order vs. savagery/chaos is evident when Piggy dies and the conch is broken. Specifically, at the end of the novel, Roger leans on a lever, purposefully causing a roc…

Les Miserables is an incredible epic, written by Victor Hugo, with an overarching theme of redemption. The main character, Jean Valjean, who later takes on another identity, was given many opportuniti…