Disease Essays

Both ‘Death of a Naturalist’ and ‘The Early Purges’ are poems written by Seamus Heaney. Each begins by explaining a child’s enthusiasm for nature, and goes on to describe how this fascination is somehow changed. Both poems put across the idea that childhood is a time of innocence before the …

After looking at the two poems, Requiescat and Mid-term break, I have seen a poetic way of expressing the feelings shown in the mourning of a death. However, these two poems are quite different even though they are both built around the theme of death. Requiescat uses an ABAB rhyme …

The images of darkness and disease in Macbeth are very important in creating the atmosphere and mood of the play. Shakespeare uses verbal imagery as well as the physical images acted out in the play to affect the audience; these effects were enhanced by the fact that Macbeth was first …

It is 1946 the Second World War has just finished and the world is reeling from 70 million deaths. The world has changed and Priestley is presenting a play about how everything was before in 1912. Priestley is about to bring to light the shocking truth of Britain’s class divide, …

No matter from which angle it is looked at, Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ is fundamentally a battle of good against evil. Throughout her lifetime, Rossetti insisted that this poem should be treated as nothing more than a harmless fairytale. If one look’s at the poem from its intended angle, a …

Charles Dickens was one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. He wrote all his books to educate people but also for entertainment. He published Great Expectations in 1861; the book was set in the 1830s. The main character in ‘Great Expectations’ is a boy called Pip. In the …

In the plays, Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman and Antigone by Jean Anouilh, the themes of desire and frustration are brought out by the authors, and are able to lift off the facade, uncovering the real truth and by doing this, allowing the reader to relate to the …

My legs began to hurt. The cold wind crashed through my hair making my eyes, ears and nose ache. I knew that I couldn’t run for much longer, this was the fifth field that we had been through, but where could I hide? The endless flat fields that stretched out …

We have read Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954) and also seen the scene “the death of Piggy” in the two film versions directed by Peter Brook (1961) and Harry Hook (1994). The black and white version by Peter Brook is very close to the text since the …

In the novel Lord of the Flies (L. O. F) two tragic murders happen, the one of Simon and the one of Piggy. Both deaths happened in their own ways, but the main similarities between both deaths were brutality and savagery. Simons’ death was brutal, almost un-controllable. His death was …