Study Aids : Cliffs Notes - Literature

Get an Alpha-Plus on your next paper by exploring Aldous Huxley's futuristic, dystopian London in CliffsNotes on Brave New World. Not only does this study guide give you insight into Huxley's life and writing, but it also provides you with expert commentaries and critical analyses to help you understand the novel's social and political themes. Character studies of Bernard Marx, John the Savage, and Lenina Crowne enable you to discover what makes the people of Huxley's brave new world tick, and the character map will help you figure out the complex relationships between all the main characters. more...

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The author, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs, speaks through her narrator Linda Brent to reveal a story of enslavement, degradation, and sexual exploitation. A book-length narrative, it is often cited as the counterpart to Frederick Douglass' An American Slave , Written by Himself. Addressing white women in the North about the bondage of black women in the South, it focuses on five distinct phases in Linda Brent's life. more...

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Called the greatest novel of the 20th century, this stream-of-consciousness epic tells a modern version of the ancient Ulysses , only this one takes place in one day in turn-of-the-century Dublin. It is difficult, funny, witty, and one of the most revolutionary novels of all time. more...

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During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintre to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the American privileged class. Combining elements of comedy, tragedy, romance and melodrama, this tale of thwarted desire vividly contrasts nineteenth-century American and European manners. This concise supplement to Henry James's The American helps students understand the overall structure of the work, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives of the author. more...

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The U.S. government's internment of 120,000 Asian Americans in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 is a thorny era that many Americans have chosen to ignore. Farewell to Manzanar is a factual narrative by Jeanne Toyo Wakatsuki and James D. Houston that follows Jeanne, her family, and 30,000 other Asian Americans along a three-decade-long journey of silent denial and racial degradation. more...

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