Grotesque characters in literature can hardly be considered lovable since they are strangers and freaks to ordinary society. Carson McCullers’ novel “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” falls under the category of Southern grotesque style. However, McCullers succeeds in the difficult task of ma...

Love without Marriage “The Lady with the Pet Dog” a short story written by Anton Chekhov, demonstrates sensitivity to the subtleties of human relationships and deep respect for his characters. The main characters, Dmitrich Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna, are both married but regardless of this fact...

Timeless Love The harsh nature in which loves consumes us can also contain our heart and soul for an eternity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera confronts what is held to be the most sacred of human emotions as its primary theme and source of conflict. This emotion, ...

Zora Neale Hurston uses symbols throughout the novel to explain events, rather than sating them. She interprets many important aspects of life and turns these events into symbols throughout Their Eyes Were Watching God. The important aspects of life being symbolized include faith, the maturation p...

Family relationships and the flaws of society are two issues explored in After the Ball and American Beauty. In each text there are similarities and contrasts between the two issues though they both project the same meaning. Another audience viewing and reading these two texts will look at and res...

Love story I have read, heard, seen and watched a lot of romantic love stories, but none of them is more impressive of American novelist Erich Segal. I cried twice while reading the novel. The first time was when Jenny replied “love means never having to say tha...