Books Essays

In this novella (short novel), Hemingway’s aim is to examine man’s position in the universe. Throughout the novella, Santiago (‘the old man’) endeavours to see himself in a cosmic perspective. Certainly, he takes, for a fisherman, a surprisingly sympathetic view of the creatures, with whom we share the planet. Hemingway’s …

“Of Mice and Men is, essentially, a story of friendship and loneliness.” Discuss the extent in which you agree or disagree with this statement. Of Mice and Men is a story consisting of many different themes recurring throughout the novel, some more prominent than others, and a lot of which …

The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’, directed by Tim Burton, is about a young man called Edward with scissors for hands. He lives in a gothic manor situated on a hill on the outskirts of a suburban settlement. Peg Boggs, an Avon saleswoman, had no success selling her make-up in the neighbourhood …

Pitch black skies, towering metallic three legged monsters makes Spielberg’s extraordinary remake of the brilliant and intriguing H G Well’s classic novel “War Of The Worlds” its a must see movie. Tom Cruise portrays the irresponsible father in his quest to Boston, while aliens are killing everyone, everywhere. So do …

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unjust laws like the Jim Crow Laws which crippled the nation’s capability to permit equality between the white community and African Americans. W. E. B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington were the two premier social and political figures that doubled as writers as …

Robert Louis Stevenson implies what Victorian society is like in his novella “the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, by providing the reader with facts and metaphors and using language to indicate that no-one is ordinary and everyone has a different side, or dark side, the difference between …

This Gothic Horror follows the story from Mr Utterson’s view. As he tries to discover the relationship between Dr Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. The story is developed through his conversations and letters. In all characters met in the story, the duality of man is shown by their reactions and …

Evil in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is represented in many ways. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was released as a penny number, cheap magazines. In the Victorian times people were fascinated by crime/detective stories which they would link in with Jack the Ripper. The audience …

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has all the characteristics of a Gothic Horror text. For example, most of the settings are dark and mysterious, women play a very small part in the text and there is a beast, Hyde. In Frankenstein and Dracula, two Gothic horror …

‘The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was a novella in 1886 by Robert Louis Stephenson. The story is set in Victorian London, besides the fact that Stephenson has never travelled to London in his life and was ‘born and bread’ in Edinburgh. Reputation is a key feature …