Learning Essays

When reading “Much Ado About Nothing” I found the most interesting and entertaining character was Beatrice, this is because there are many aspects to her nature. This may have been difficult express in a play in Shakespeare’s time as all of the actors were male. Her attitude towards Benedick was …

Of all the humorous and inspiring quotes I’ve ever read, this is the quotation that best represents how I have lived by for most of my life, and I believe more accurate words could not be spoken. Being true to myself and who I am as an individual is something …

When: Ragtime music started in the late 1800’s . However, it did not become popular until the 1900’s. In fact, it was most popular from 1897 to 1918. Although after 1917, its popularity began to be replaced by Jazz, in early 1940s, Jazz musicians started to include some ragtime music …

First of all and what I think is the most important component is the film score. The film score is the soundtrack and theme music which is non diagectic (the character cannot here it, but the audience can), these are important so the film can be recognised instantly and also …

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in a village known as Higher Bockhampton near Dorchester, which is in the county town of Dorset. This village was extremely small and consisted of about eight workers cottages and had a total population of about 50 people. Hardy lived with his two sisters, …

During the early 18th century there were many changes in society which meant people were drifting away from the strict norm of neoclassicism and conforming to the Romantic and the Gothic movements. These movements were reflected in the publications of novels such as Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which …

Does crime exist in all of us? Yes! This is what I have found interesting from my study of crime stories. Crime is in all of us but whether or not we can suppress it is another matter. Many people can suppress crime, but there is a minority that cannot. …

The stories ‘The Signalman’ by Charles Dickens and ‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells are similar in the balance between the supernatural and rational. In ‘The Signalman’ there is a ghost or vision that gives warnings to an impending accident on the train line. After various warnings the signalman, …

The introduction to the play offers a lengthy description of the set, helping the audience to picture the scene. With the help from some useful descriptions of the characters, I think the director in the production succeeded to get all the detail across. For example, Mr Birling is a: – …

In my opinion I would agree and say that this observation is highly accurate of the young protagonist in volume one. Pip has been presented to us as a vulnerable character from the very opening chapter; Dickens describes him using the imagery of ‘a little bundle of shivers’ at the …