Books Essays

The two short stories ‘The Fury’ and ‘The Story of an Hour’ share a lot of parallels, for instance, they both focus strongly on the theme of marriage and how in marriage both partners need to be able to have independence and freedom to retain their own individuality. In ‘The …

What it means to be ‘heroic’ is to be brave, courageous or noble. Courage is a “quality shown by someone knowing there are dangers or difficulties lying ahead”. A ‘heroine’ is a woman who is brave or shows these qualities. The protagonists in these stories may be considered to be …

The main character in The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, is a woman named Mathilde. In Desiree’s Baby, written by Kate Chopin, the main character is, not surprisingly, Desiree. Both central characters are female. In this essay I will compare these two characters and show to you how fate, …

Racism has been an issue throughout time, and in some societies it is still present. The belief that an individual of a different race or colour is not equal to an individual, who is “white”, has caused many fights, arguments and deaths. In the nineteenth century, the slave trade was …

The film the Grapes of Wrath is about a family from Oklahoma trying to escape the Dust Bowl, which dried up the land, caused the lack of jobs, and made them to move to California in hopes of finding better jobs. The story begins with Tom Joad the main character, …

This relatively short recount of Irene Pepperberg’s experiment with Alex is a very intriguing book. The truth behind it and the idea of a thirty year experiment between man and beast is awe-inspiring. The short 226 page story is written by Irene herself, but recounts the story very well in …

Death is presented to the audience as a form of punishment, in both The Outsider and Antigone. But the protagonists in the two texts develop different attitudes towards death. Antigone anticipates her own death from the opening scene and faces it bravely, but her confidence wanes after she is sentenced …

In both Like Water for Chocolate and The Outsider, the main characters experience a blissful realization at the end of the book while facing imminent death. With the exception of the last few pages of each book, the two main characters, Tita and Meursault are largely static in their development; …

“Setting is a powerful vehicle of thematic concerns; in fact, it is one of the most powerful”. Using the two books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Siddhartha, by Mark Twain and Herman Hesse respectively, I can proudly state that to a very huge extent, this statement proves true for …

Firstly I’ll introduce the two novels as I know that some of you haven’t read both of them, 1984 was written in 1948 so it is meant to be a dystopian future, a dystopia being the opposite of a utopia. It focuses on the life of Winston who is trying …