Books Essays

In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening the death scenes of both novels are one of the most essential scenes. There are, in these scenes many major similarities and differences. Both suicides arise from related circumstances. Emma from Madame Bovary, and Edna from The Awakening are two …

On first impressions of the novel, my own prejudices clouded my judgement of the book and of what it might have consisted. Living in the 21st Century it is somewhat difficult to imagine anything remotely similar, interesting or slightly scandalous happening in a period in which rich men marry apparently …

In Pride and Prejudice, the character of Mr Collins is developed in many different ways. On some occasions, character traits are fully brought to the reader’s attention in one go; in other instances the trait is developed gradually throughout the entire novel, with the final development being in Collins’ last …

Throughout her novels, Jane Austen writes many things in relation to the status of women and how important marriage was to them in regency England. This essay will discuss how Jane Austen relates the importance of marriage and the status of women through her novel: Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen …

Wells combines hyper-realism with his own extremely active imagination in War of the Worlds to create an ambiance from start to finish, where the extra-ordinary and the ordinary are inexplicably combined to make phrases, paragraphs and chapters that builds up to the point where we are no longer even sure …

The war of the worlds was written by H G Wells, in 1898. The novel may have reflected the feelings of the people at the end of a century. At the end of a century, people will be having different feelings of hope, fright and wonder, of what is going …

H. G. Wells uses a variety of different techniques to interest the reader. The novel The War of the Worlds was written in the 1890s that questioned so many simple beliefs, which people had at that time. As H. G. Wells was writing this novel so many different ideas of …

I believe that sci-fi is a genre that allows the readers imagination to flow at its fullest. Sci-Fi asks the question ‘what if? ‘ The reader does not know what is in store for them unlike romance novels where they are mostly the same. Sci-Fi novels and films tend to …

Jane Austen’s book of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ involves the marriages of the Bennet daughters’- how they behave to marriage proposals and how marriage is the social topic of the week-every week. Throughout this novel we can deduce what Jane Austen’s view is on marriage. Jane Austen shows a variety of …

One of the central themes of “Pride and Prejudice” is love and marriage. Jane Austen portrays the different incentives of marriage using various characters as literary devices to explore relationships between characters who have married for love opposed to couples who marry for superficial reasons. She satirises the custom of …