Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Summary & Analysis

People sometimes think if they aren’t getting enough sleep they are an insomniac, and other people blame other things on their sleeplessness.  There are two characters in the short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, by Ernest Hemingway, one is a possible insomniac, protagonist, and one chooses to be an insomniac, antagonist.  These two characters each…

Le Romanticisme et le Réalisme

Le Romanticisme était un mouvement dans la litterature Française, et aussi dans tous les arts, dans le dix-neuvième siècle. Pendant la révolution, beaucoup de gens voulaient violer les régles strictes qui existaient dans l’art en France. Dans la litterature, les écrivains et dramaturges ont arrêté de utiliser la structure soutenue. Cette litterature est characterisé quelquefois…

Religion in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte addresses the theme of Religion in the novel Jane Eyre using many characters as symbols. Bronte states, “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion” (preface v). In Jane Eyre, Bronte supports the theme that customary actions are not always moral through the conventional personalities of Mrs. Reed, Mr. Brocklehurst, and St. John…

Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca: Summary & Analysis

Texts show us how experience often changes people. ‘Rebecca’, a novel written by Daphne Du Maurier illustrates this point. Throughout the engrossing story, the characters experience much and as a result, the characters undergo both temporary and life-altering changes to their thoughts, beliefs, and behavior. At the beginning of the novel, the narrator is the…