Five Novel comparison

Literature is bound by threads of themes that transcend all barriers of race, religion, epoch, and culture. Archetypal ideas of death, freedom, self-realization, good, and evil are utilized throughout most literary text. It is especially evident in The Song of Solomon and Beloved By Morrison, The Woman Warrior by Kingston, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne and The Awakening by Chopin, that religion and culture are an imperative part of society. Religious and cultural taboos are …

…and character development, to accentuate the transcending theme that fetters these novels, society’s impact on the protagonists and it’s repercussions on the “Self”. They succeed in realizing the concept of the importance of the “Self” and the individual’s struggles to find his or her “Self” within the confinements of society’s rules. Moreover, they successfully develop insights that may be relevant to readers of all cultures and that transcend place and time.