Anti-romantic novel

America. The stories of the noir genre are always take place in a city like Los Angeles because of The Golden West in the middle of 19 century. Raymond Chandler is a prominent practitioner of noir genre, and his novel The Big Sleep is widely considered to be one of the most significant novels of noir genre, which narrates a case that the main character Phillip Marlowe is investigating on. In addition, Double Indemnity written

Generation” (33). This same “flaming hero” was found in other facets of American culture, more specifically in American cinema, with the likes of Marlon Brando and James Dean. However, even Moriarty’s flame would flicker at the conclusion of the novel where he is depicted as a gaunt figure in “a motheaten overcoat” (306) without a car, walking alone in the frigid New York night. The next subject is the west, the American symbol of autonomy and freedom. The west and its wild, unbridled spirit have

arguably the prototype of what was to become the "superfluous man," which would become prominent in so many other Russian novels. As most literature's subtle goals are not so easily discernable, Lermontov subtly used Pechorin to debunk romanticism in an indirect way. He did so in a way that shocks readers out of their ordinary idea of what a protagonist (specifically romantic) should be, because Pechorin is in fact, a superfluous man. The understanding of what Romanticism, the Byronic Hero, and

On the onset of Nicole Dennis-Benn's novel Here Comes The Sun, Margot is introduced as an ambitious woman with grand aspirations of amassing enough wealth in order to escape a life of poverty and to shield her younger sister from the harsh realities she herself had to and continues to face. In pursuit of her ambitions, Margot works as a front desk agent at the Palm Star Resort hotel, a lucrative job in the eyes of her peers, but in actuality, it wasn't much. To expedite her pursuits, Margot also

Frankenstein is Mary Shelley’s famous, fictional work in which a man unravels the secret to creating life. The main character in this story is Victor Frankenstein. Throughout the novel he grows from a young, innocent boy into a vindictive, vengeful man. He oversteps the bounds of science by becoming the creator of a being that never should have lived. In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Coleridge, a man, much like Victor, takes the role of the main character. The ancient

slowly but surely question the purpose of war. The book received mixed reviews, some positive, some not. Those who disliked it the most were the now broken up National Socialist Party, or Nazis. The book was banned and burned by the Nazis due to it’s anti-war theme, which was quite the opposite of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s plan for Germany. However, the book became a bestseller, and a movie was produced in the 30s. It was given high praise by the Allies, and still sells to this day. It is an astonishing

supernatural that was manmade. Frankenstein, with its meeting of the modern Prometheus and the leading strict Calvinist faith, created such controversy, which led Shelley to vastly revise the work in a second edition; the novel stood as a stepping stone into and out of the Romantic works, with intensity of emotion and the new aesthetic of the sublime, but the continuing message of Mary Shelley’s work – not of the dangers of man overcoming God – maintained the difference between what could be done and

would allow the individual American to escape the rapidly growing urban centers that were developing an uneducated middle-class. The last particularly American subject is the hero of the novel himself, Huck. Huck is envisioned as this romantic anti-society anti-inheritance hero. In coming-to-age novels of the time, many were determined to show the process the character mature, moving past their youthful selves and into a role of social acceptance of culture. Huck represents a new American subject

sentiment proves true in how he describes the tradition of heroism in his novel The Red Badge of Courage.  While Crane writes what is considered to be one of the most important novels about the Civil War, his views on the war and the heroics of those fighting the war are mostly critical.  Like Ernest Hemingway, Crane writes a story that shows that those fighting “will die like a dog and for no good reason.”  At times his novel seems to satirize the traditional view of war making men more manly or brave

Women in literature have been portrayed in a multitude of ways throughout time. From goddesses to witches, and even prostitutes, women have not been limited in their representations. One challenge, in particular, is repression of their sexuality. In novels by Kate Chopin, George Orwell, and Kazuo Ishiguro, female characters live in societies that seek to regulate their sexuality. Published in 1899, The Awakening by Chopin focuses on Edna Pontellier, a woman who seeks to create a life outside her marriage