Bridge Essays

My practical work in July-September 2003 was for option 1 and consisted of Devised work on the theme of Homelessness. We titled our piece ‘Leaving Home’. There were four of us in our group. Our work is based on the play ‘Under the Bridge’. We start with Scene 3 of …

Blake’s poem ‘London’ and Wordsworth’s poem ‘Composed on Westminster Bridge’ at first glance present London in contrary ways. Figuratively, Blake’s London resembles the dark depths of an underground chamber that is isolated from the beauty of nature and instead is claustrophobically filled with Blake’s clever metaphor: “mind forged manacles”, which …

The narrator sets the scene upon a railway bridge in Northern Alabama. There are around four messages that Ambrose Pierce tries to get across, firstly that he is uncomfortable with war, how people are forced into war that do not want to fight and what it does to them and …

A View From The Bridge, written in 1956 by Arthur Miller, is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Eddie Carbone is the central character, and it is sordid feelings around which the entire drama of the play is based. His actions and emulous motives provoke arrant sorrow and a betrayal with …

The play ‘A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller’ is set in the 1930’s in an Italian based community in Brooklyn in New York. One main character in the play is Alfieri, a man originally from Sicily who had moved to America to become a lawyer. Alfieri is not …

         Rigidness, determination and sentimentality of one person led to the creation of the Bridge on the River Kwai. At the height of WWII, the British army lost in their war against the Japanese in Thailand. As prisoners of war and a prisoner of the Japanese, hospitality is far from …

Every character in th story is a suspect. Although the case seemed simple, where the madman should be guilty of all accounts, other influencing factors should be considered. The Baron could also be guilty of her death because of how he threatened her in the beginning of the story. It …

In the Teenage fiction novel, A Bridge to Wisemans Cove, Carl is one of the few people who change in the novel while being at wattle Beach and Wisemans Cove. Carl changes Physically, Socially and mentally. Harley also changes seeing his personality has developed as well as his decision making …

The story by Kate Chopin “The Storm” reminded me so much of the book “The Bridges of Madison County” by Robert James Waller. The characters are set in a place isolated from their families so that they have the freedom to interact. In Chopin’s work she has the storm keeping …

356 poems by William Wordsworth. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and …