Books Essays

People always seem to agree that money does not buy happiness. I disagree. I can accept that I am materialist. People criticize this trait about people. I look at it from another perspective. People everywhere regarding color, religion or nationality are materialist whether they accept it or not. Of course …

The Great Gatsby is told through Nick Caraway’s perspective – this is mainly responsible for the way the characters are portrayed, and to say that the characters were on a path of ‘self-destruction’, as mainly viewed by many, is not only inaccurate, but undemocratic. By following events through Nick Caraway’s …

Cars play a very important part in the telling of The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a very dark, unhappy book, and the cars really exemplify this. “…cars change their meaning and become a symbol of death” (Dexheimer). Cars also give the reader insight into some of the different …

The Great Gatsby is observed as a social satire of the United States in the roaring twenties, where Fitzgerald exposes the American Dream as a flawed fantasy merely generated by over-indulgence. America was established in the conception of equality, where any individual could have equal opportunities and success on the …

The story purpose for each writer is in my opinion totally different. Thomas Hardy has set out to make ‘The Three Strangers’ a story with many twists and turns keeping the reader in suspense until the very end, while Guy de Maupassant has written a story full of revenge and …

The Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar both contain a futile killing. In The Lord of the Flies, Simon is brutally killed. In Julius Caesar, Cinna the Poet is irrationally slayed. Both these killings are done because of a fervent mob. When Simon is killed, the scene is very …

In this essay I will be focusing on the novel, ‘Great Expectations. ‘ Charles Dickens was a 19th century writer which affects his writing and language used within the novel. He has also written many other famous books such as “Oliver Twist”, “The Christmas carols”, and “David Copperfield”. The novel, …

Stevenson’s interest in human nature was caused by his strong upbringing giving him desires to do the opposite to what he was being told to do. He wanted to explore outside the strong moral boundaries that had been set to him while growing up. An influence on R.L Stevenson was …

Browning was writing at a time in the early Victorian Era, (around six years before Victoria came to the thrown) when most poets were moving away from traditional Georgian styles of writing and more into the recognisably modern literature. This allowed Browning and other such poets to take advantage of …

‘How sad and bad and mad it was – but then, how it was sweet! ‘ (Robert Browning – Confessions). The very form of these poems – dramatic monologues – lends itself to an exploration of psychology. In both ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, the character of a solitary …