Emotions Essays

To define the words ‘strong’ and ‘character’, the dictionary offers these definitions; Strong – 1- having great power, energy, effect, flavour etc. 2 – not easy to break, damage or defect. The word strong can be used in many contexts. It relates to Mother Courage and Paulina as I am …

“The Winter’s Tale” explores a wide variety of themes such as art and nature, disguise and reality, justice and injustice, but the most prominent theme is definitely the struggle for power between men and women, especially when considering the historical context of the play. Since The Winter’s Tale’s creation it …

1) Source A, written by Malcolm Brown, expresses the opinion of people who believed the Battle of the Somme was ‘a tragic massacre of a generation’ and ‘an event so terrible it killed the breezy, crusading spirit of 1914-15. Furthermore it tells of the opinion that the Somme ended a …

In many of Eliot’s poems there seem to be two types of society: Polite society, who seem to be very false and never say what they mean, express their feelings or say what they would like. Then there is the other part of society, proletariat, which is common and dirty, …

‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and ‘Great Expectations’ are two novels written in Bildungsroman. That is they are both novels that describe a character’s childhood to adulthood. Also both of these are fictional-biographies, which mean that they are both made up character’s lives. ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ is set …

Pip grew up south of the river Thames in Kent. He lived in a small village and he was incredibly poor. He lived with his sister and her husband, who is a blacksmith, due to his parents had an unfortunate deaths. Pip presumed that he was also going to be …

Gatsby is shown in ‘The Great Gatsby’ to be the personification of the American dream because he is the typical self made man, he had come from being a nobody into being the most wealthy man on the neighbourhood and able to buy what he wanted “champagne… Rolls-Royce” which was …

In this essay I will be focusing on the novel, ‘Great Expectations. ‘ Charles Dickens was a 19th century writer which affects his writing and language used within the novel. He has also written many other famous books such as “Oliver Twist”, “The Christmas carols”, and “David Copperfield”. The novel, …

In Heany’s Digging we are greeted by a scene depicting him, in his bedroom performing his passion of writing. Upon looking out the window he is immediately greeted by his father in his passion of work. This poem is one of separation of family tradition and the tenacity of a …

Many men in Victorian Britain were concerned with some women’s desire for independence; they feared that they could loose their dominion and supremacy over them, which was a valued and respected custom. The men cherished their pre-eminence over their spouses; the thought of being deprived of it aggravated them and …