Character Essays

Jane is a ten-year-old orphan whose parents died when she was only one year old. She is physically inferior to most people and has a plain countenance; these characteristics influence her personality and her behaviour towards people very strongly. Jane is not a pretty girl, and believes that this is …

The content in “Charlotte O’Neil’s song” is of a maid who is extremely angry and is not willing to be a slave for hey “mistress” any more. She then makes up her mind to immigrate to New Zealand. In stanza one of “Charlotte O’Neil’s Song” she makes a list of …

Jane’s temperament is strong and unique and she share’s very few qualities with any of the other women in the novel. This is because, as a central character, Jane has to stand out and be individual. The other women in the novel are used to accentuate the qualities Jane has …

Pip, when he was a boy, knew nothing of the ‘high life’. Right at the beginning of the story Pip was caught by Abel Magwitch and Able forced Pip to help him. When Pip does, it was one of the best, or the worst events of his life. When Miss …

Throughout Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ Pip’s character undergoes constant changes when it develops, matures, and his experience of the outside world grows. Dickens tells the story through Pip narrating and this gives him a personal connection with the reader and it is easy to understand and reciprocate his feelings. One …

In this essay I will tell you about Macbeth and what he is thinking and what his state of mind is throughout the play. Macbeth is a play about the character experiencing a tragic story. He turns from a good, loyal, brave man to an ambitious murderer. The reason for …

The Red Room by HG Wells and The Signalman by Charles Dickens are two gothic stories which have made good use of description to give their readers a tense atmosphere which leads to suspense throughout the story. By creating ideal gothic settings, dark tunnels, haunted rooms and haunted tunnels with …

Mr Birling is a prominent character in the play and is a ‘heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech. ’ His physical appearance is similar to Winston Churchill; Priestly may be trying to prove a point here. Mr Birling …

In the play there are a few characters that are changed by the visit of the inspector because of the family being partially involved in the killing of Eva Smith. Arthur Burling isn’t changed at all by the inspectors visit. I can tell this because he isn’t really bothered about …

Macbeth an lady Macbeth are two very different characters, and put together they make the powerful but tragic story of Macbeth full of bravery, beauty guilt and betrayal. Macbeth, at the beginning of the play is already successful having killed Macdonald and sliced him “from the nave to the chops” …