The Great Bear

On the dustjacket on which Fitzgerald had insisted for Gatsby, a pair of sorrowing beautiful eyes, presiding above orgiastic neon, bears a foetus. And in this novel, high above the urgent, suave contestings, like an adult far removed from the fevers of sibling rivalry, a craved symbolic mother, strikingly absent in a world only of belles, haunts the upreachings of the narrative: sanctuary…

Self versus Self in Of Mice and Men A person’s mentality determines whether or not their dreams will be accomplished. Certain character’s personal failures are what prohibits their dreams from coming true. Of Mice and Men was written during the Great Depression, moreover this was a time of never ending conflict in every aspect. Self versus Self conflict was a very common theme not only of this time period but in this book as well. The theme of self versus self was displayed through the…

Love can take a person on an unforgettable and otherwise unattainable journey. Jay Gatsby, the love-stricken protagonist in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, is pulled into this journey which brings back his past. Nick Carraway, Gatsby’s new neighbor and friend, narrates the situation he sees involving his married cousin, Daisy, who is caught between Gatsby and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Tom reveals to Nick the affair he is having with another married woman, Myrtle Wilson and relationships…

In her book Surprised by the Feminine, Monika Hilder makes “theological feminism” the lens through which she evaluates C.S. Lewis’ portrayal of women in his works. She discusses this term as the understanding that, according to Christian theology, that “the subordination of ego as well as of concerns of worldly power to the ultimate authority of divine love is liberating” (Hilder 21). Whereas in her essay “A Sword Between the Sexes,” Mary Van Leeuwen expresses her frustration with Lewis’…

The moment somebody walks outside, people suddenly start to judge. People make assumptions based on how people dress and look. “Everything That Rises Must Converge” and “Goodbye, My Brother” take place in a world where if men don’t wear a tie they look like a “thug,” a briefcase symbolizes respect, and they long for a return to their past glories. Each main character has a distinguishing feature or item of clothing- the garish hat, wedding dress, protruding teeth, or the holiday home. While…

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has been cherished and revered by a consistently large audience for many decades. So how has a novel, published 205 years ago, continued to remain relatable and relevant in modern society? The universal themes of Pride and Prejudice on both the interpersonal and societal levels, such as love, marriage, and class, keep people constantly returning to the story, but in addition, it is Austen’s light, crisp, and direct telling of both characters and plot that yields…

The Aristocrats are the elite society, the upper class, the rich people of a country, in this case from London. They usually have remarkable tittles in society, which give them great power and have a strong word in most subjects spoken or done inside the society. The Aristocracy is also divided in sub-classes, which are classified by their work, power, and achievements. Mostly, the Aristocracy consists in The Royal Family, the nobility, lords and officers of state. (Hierarchy Structure, 2013)…

might argue that the Narrator loves his brother, and this is his motive to help him, I believe otherwise. “ There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to…

Believe it or not, I was not terribly excited to see 1982’s “Sophie’s Choice” until only recently. It was a film I always planned on seeing, if only to see the titular choice that film lovers refer to when saying a decision is impossibly difficult, but I didn’t especially look forward to the experience. Then, I saw Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men.” I loved that movie, and was intrigued by his other efforts, thus increasing my excitement for this directorial outing. Couple that with a…

George Milton and Lennie Small, who have a tremendously strong father son relationship, constantly travel from place to place in order to keep the latter safe, as Lennie’s disability always causes him to get into trouble. The reader sees George’s great faithfulness towards Lennie and his devotion to keeping the handicapped man safe, which constantly uproots his life and causes it to be in an incessant disarray. John…