Contrast Essays

A Shakespearean audience would find the murder of Duncan much more brutal compared to a modern days audience. Because he is king a Shakespearean audience would feel deeply hurt for all the characters in the play, as they know Macbeth has killed a very important person whom they believe is …

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 …

I will be comparing and contrasting two famous poems by William Blake and Steve Turner. They are both poets who are writing about cities. Blake’s poem is a lot older as it was written in the seventeenth century and Turner’s poem is modern and so there is a big difference …

The two poems “Telephone Conversion” by Wole Soyinka and the poem “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” by U A Fanthorpe are both about people being interviewed. In the poem, “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” there is a candidate edgily sitting in the interviewing room being humiliated …

Charles Dickens wrote “The Signalman” in the 1860s, at a time when ghost stories, the supernatural and the gothic were very popular with the Victorians. Many short stories during this period were written in this genre and this interest was probably inspired by the “Penny Dreadfuls” magazine, which contained many …

I am going to compare The Lady of Shalott and Mariana. I am going to look at the setting, the weather, the woman herself, the woman’s situation, the hero and the language, of both poems. The Lady of Shalott. The setting. In the setting there are, fields of barley and …

‘Macbeth’ is full of dramatic contrasts, show how Shakespeare has developed the character of Lady Macbeth in act 1 scene 5, and contrast it to her character in act 5 scene 1. ‘Macbeth’ is a play set in the Scottish highlands. The plot consists of Macbeth’s rise and fall of …

In the poem “I Am Not That Woman” the writer Kishwar Naheed expresses her opinion and knowledge on how woman in her culture are treated. Throughout the motion of this poem the writer seems to be trying to send a message to all men – in particular men from her …

My aim is to compare and contrast the methods London Fancy Box uses to increase productivity. I will first focus on the main ways that are more obvious and the advantages and disadvantages of them. Then I will go into more detail and look at the smaller things. Finally, I …

This essay is based around Pips life on the marshes, his move from the marshes to London and his life in London. The marshes is a contrast, which shows Pips morale decline in life. During his move and during the course of the novel Pip becomes a very nasty person …