Anti-romantic novel

movie Clueless is based off the Jane Austen novel, Emma. The novel was originally published in 1815, and set in England. Very different from our beloved Cher, and her clueless 1990’s California life. The main characters may have been from different centuries, but their “rich-bitch” attitudes are defiantly similar. In the Essay I want to focus on Cher, Emma, and Amy Heckerling, and understand why Heckerling turned this 1815 classic into a 1990’s romantic comedy. I want to explore the similarities between

From the 19th century through the early 20th century, romantic friendships flourished in America. These relationships, found between both men and women and most commonly within the middle class, provided support invaluable to those involved and were distinctively more intimate than comparable relationships preceding and following them that were not explicitly romantic. The unique intimate nature of romantic friendships and their progression and decline provide important clues into the nature of 19th

Sometimes referred to as “the greatest war novel of all time”, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque tells of the experiences of a group of German soldiers on the front lines of World War I. The chronicles of these soldiers are not only bloody and gruesome, but also extremely realistic in terms of the horrors of the actual war. This viewpoints of this novel help to partially strength one side of Niall Ferguson’s argument in The Pity of War which insists that the men on the battlefield

failures are present because the novel lacks climax throughout the essay’s entirety and without this climax there is no sense of closure in the most climatic events. One particular failure that Tribunella mentions in his essay is the failure of love triangles in the novel. Tribunella argues that there are three love triangles in Johnny Tremain but none of these are fulfilled with a “bang”. Instead each one of these love triangles slowly fizzles out throughout the novel. The love triangles that are

first episode occurs in the second chapter while he is on the run with Roland Weary and the two scouts, “his attention began to swing grandly through the full arc of his life, passing into death, which was violet light” (pg.54). This is a powerful anti-war message because it show the terrible effect of war on an

American literature. His romantic style was wildly popular, especially in the southern states. Most of the nation's views on the war at the time were highly romanticized as a result. However, there was nothing romantic about this war. Once soldiers witnessed the horrors of war, many of their romantic views were changed forever. One such soldier was Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. The themes of American literature shifted drastically following the war from romantic to realistic to bring to

Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is a famous Naturalist novel that tells the revulsions of the American Civil War. This book became one of the most famous books of its time. Stephen Crane tells the horrid, graphic tragedy of life at war. This contrasts greatly with a previous literary movement, Romanticism. Naturalism is a mere reflection of its related literary movement, Realism. Stephen Crane writes his novel that greatly displays Naturalism at its peak. Naturalism was a literary movement

on war. While the main focus is the bombing of Dresden during World War II, the book isn’t really about Dresden; Vonnegut merely uses this specific battle as a method to express his strong sentiment against war in general. In the early part of the novel, Vonnegut narrates his visit to Bernard O’Hare’s home. O’Hare’s wife, Mary suddenly launches into an angry outburst after mumbling to herself for a time, and Vonnegut says “She [Mary O’Hare] had been talking to herself, so what she said was a fragment

George S. McGovern, an American Historian and Author. The historical fiction novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo takes a similar stance as McGovern on the topic of war. Johnny Got His Gun was written in the post war period after World War I, right before World War II. The Anti-War message of the historical fiction novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo is highly effective in its goal of persuading the reader to the anti-war cause through the characterization of Joe’s past family experiences

characters, setting and plot in the novel and supposedly created the main character, Jake Barnes, as himself. In the Sun Also Rises, the anti-semitic attitudes expressed toward Robert Cohn reflect Hemingway’s personal anti-semitic beliefs, which were a product of his time. Many aspects of Robert Cohn’s character are stereotypical. One trait often found in stereotypical Jewish characters is their fascination with money. Hemingway makes remarks throughout the novel to imply that Cohn is always concerned