Books Essays

In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the community has a very significant and complex role. At times the community has a very helpful presence and at other times harsh and harmful. This is a community of former slaves in post-Civil War era; they have been deeply scarred emotionally, psychologically, and physically by …

I am writing an essay on the comparison of the two films. Which were the black and white written by Peter Brooks in 1963 and the Technicolor version written by Harry Hook in 1990. In my essay I will also examine which of the two versions were in the spirit …

For my coursework I will compare both short story’s whom where written by a woman which was very unusual for that day and age. The author’s pen name was Kate Chopin. Kate Chopin was in fact born Katherine O’Flaherty to a prominent St. Louis family. People assume she wrote ‘Desiree’s …

There are two novels that stand out in literature which display a sense of supreme control of society by a government in some future time. George Orwell’s `1984′, which was first published in 1949, creates a nightmarish vision of what the world may become via a `negative utopia’ and Aldous …

In this essay I am going to be comparing the relationship between Jane Eyre and her cousin John Reed. The story is written before 1900 and is a fictional autobiography. Charlotte Bronte uses the fictional character of Jane Eyre to portray herself in parts of the story, especially the similarities …

The Tempest is a play of such ambiguity that it becomes difficult to discuss the subject of a colonialist discourse in isolation. It becomes inextricably linked with not only power and authority, but also with illusion and reality, with redemption and regeneration. It is through the use of language, relationships …

Both Bram Stokers’ classic Gothic novel ‘Dracula’ and Sarah Waters’ contemporary Gothic novel ‘The Little Stranger’ use gothic tropes to create a sense of fear in their audiences. However, the ending juxtapose each other in the sense that Stoker vanquishes all evil while Waters’ leaves her ending ambiguously fearful and …

The American dream, as described by Martin Luther King Jr. , “… is a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. ” …

Religion undeniably plays a critical role and function in the novel Jane Eyre. Religion and the characters it presents are used by Bronte throughout the piece to raise poignant questions regarding moral boundaries, the exact nature of religion as well as the guidelines we importance of such a moral code …

The narrator often takes a pivotal role in the development of a story. Narrators are used as a literary device to extract important viewpoints throughout the scenes in a novel. When the “first person narrative” is used, the feelings, knowledge, viewpoint, and bias are revealed correspondingly through the narrator’s experiences. …