Character Essays

Hamlet’s first soliloquy strikes a note of despair and reveals his feelings towards life and the hasty marriage between his mother and his uncle. Hamlet wishes to “thaw and resolve […] into a dew” but is restrained by the canon law that condemns him to eternal suffering in hell if …

Throughout “The Canterbury Tales”, clothing and description of a character is a major clue because the outward appearance reflects the character’s morality. In contrast with the pardoner who had unclean yellow hair like a rat’s tail, bulging eyeballs, and a prepubescent voice and body, the squire has “curly hair as …

The changing demographic characteristics of Australia have influenced the nature and identity of Australian society. The aspects of changing demographic characteristics affecting Australia’s nature and identity include multiculturalism; the ‘ageing population’; decreasing fertility rates; the changing indigenous population and the changing population density of Australia. Australia has one of the …

Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams are two important women in The Crucible. They are basically opposite of each other, which makes their characters vital to the story. Both Elizabeth’s and Abigail’s roles in the story can be determined by comparing what each women represents, what motivates them, and what they …

Through the revelations of an unnamed narrator, we are given a glimpse of Judith’s contradictory attitudes and behaviors without any insight into previous experiences that would explain them. Judith’s persona is more than an enigma; many people are not what they seem if we don’t know them well. No, her …

The novel A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks clearly conveys his thoughts on love. Sparks believes that love has a great power in that it is able to make a young girl named Jamie Sullivan happy even though she was suffering with Leukemia and knew she was going to …

“But the main thing for me, having read and seen the play many times since its appearance about fifty years ago, is that it is about waiting, about unending expectation, about the moment that comes before something which itself never comes, but which in the process reduces everyone to a …

In Shakespeare’s Othello, isolation is shown in all aspects of the play. The majority of the play takes place on the island of Cyprus. Protected by military fortifications as well as by the forces of nature, external forces seem to present little threat to the island. Although the island does …

Harper Lee uses many literary elements and techniques that make her novel appealing to a reader. Foreshadowing, use of setting, many themes (or motifs), and well-developed characters are prevalent in this novel. Lee uses many motifs in this novel. The reoccurring symbols can also be interpreted as foreshadowing. Hands and …

Have we ever thought why most of us are interested in the story we read? I can surely say that writing a story is a complicated process. The writer has to think of how the story must be told, what effect must it have on a reader, and what is …