.... ability to hide racist remarks, "But Conrad chose his subject well - one which was guaranteed not to put him in conflict with psychological predisposition..." (Achebe, 253). By reading Heart of Darkness for the second time I started to understand the hidden racism in the book. I also discovered the racist remarks towards the natives. Racism is portrayed in Conrad's book, but a reader must know that back in the eighteen hundreds society didn't understand racism towards "Blacks". Conrad's critics would have never called Conrad a racist, during his time, but rather a great story teller who is kind hearted to "Blacks". Conrad constantly referred to the natives, in his b ....

.... "Abandoned, misunderstood, and broke throughout his life, few would have predicted that Poe would one day achieve the fame and respect now offered him in literacy circles in America and Europe— particularly France" ("The Fall of the House of Usher" - Analysis, 5). Poe is grouped with other writers in the Romantic period. Writers of this period focused on life, emotions, and the existence of the human race. Although Poe's work has many characteristics of Romanticism, "The Fall of the House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. "It is usually admired for its ‘atmosphere' and for its exquisitely artificial manipulation of Gothic claptrap and decor"(Abel, 380). ....

.... two characters are best interpreted as (1) his detached, cold, intellectual side which emphasizes “power” and “self-will” and (2) his warm, compassionate humane side which suggests self-submissive and meekness. The intellectual side is a result of his deliberate and premeditated actions, such as the theories he formulated about the crime. The other side of his character, the warm compassionate side, operates without an interfering thought process. Unfortunately, he often acts in a warm, friendly, charitable or humane manner, and then when he thinks over his actions intellectually, he regrets them. Such as, when he gives the Marmeladovs his money, then shortly ....

.... was born into a rich family. She was very pretty when she was a young girl. She was educated like every Chinese woman used to be: To be obedient, to honor one's parents, one's husband and to try to please him and his family. Ying-Ying was not expected to have her own will and make her own way through life. The result of this education was a disaster. She was married to a bad man who left her after a short time to follow other women. Her love for him turned to hate, and she killed her unborn baby. This act gave her remorse for all her life since she considered it a murder. Tortured by this incident, she had a mental breakdown, for a period of time, when her second son -- w ....

.... he suppressed his guilt and refused to accept the shadow that lurked within him. The five people that killed Boy Staunton (as stated) were: Mary- “the woman he did not know”, Leola- “ the woman he knew”, Dunstan- “the keeper of his conscience and the stone”, Paul- whom granted his inner most wish, and lastly, Boy Staunton himself. It can be observed that childhood experiences play a very important role in the stableness of ones soul. One mishap in childhood can create a devastating blow to ones true happiness in later life. This was exactly the case in Boy Staunton's life. Once, when he was little, he got in an argument with Dunny which led to snowballs bein ....

.... together, though Lennie often got them both into trouble. Another theme the book contains is negative statements about human equality. On the ranch where George and Lennie worked, the ranch hands were considered more inferior than the wealthy boss, his son, and his daughter-in-law. One of the ranch hands, Crooks, was a black man and also a cripple. He was considered more inferior than the ranch hands and had a private room out in the barn. Some of the other ranch hands did respect him, though; as much as someone could expect from anyone at the time the story takes place. Throughout the story, Lennie found out just how fragile life was in his strong hands. When he was younge ....

.... part of him, a part that was as inseparable as his faith. From the beginning of Abelard's Story of my Calamities he portrays himself as an individual. The as oldest child in his family his life was intended for a military career, but as he tells us, he abandoned Mars for Minerva, denouncing the popular and glorious profession of arms for that of learning. In writing this he shows his clever and distinct way of thinking by referring to dialectic, the art of examining options or ideas logically, as a weapon of war. "I chose the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these I chose the conflicts of disputation instead of the trophies of wa ....

.... any names and are of basically no significance. In Hemmingway's defense, however, there is the difference in time periods between now and the earlier views of sexism in the beginning of the twentieth century. But the question that arises is whether Hemmingway is acting as a man of the times or is he still overly "masculine" or sexist in his own nature? Although the book does not have any sequential order to it I believe that it does have criteria fit for a novel. If the book is compared to life it is evident that there is not a single distinct pattern that neither the book nor life itself follows. The repitition of the character Nick can be related to a main character in a ....