Life Essays

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 …

Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s many comedies, written in 1598. Ado means ‘fuss’ so the title ‘ Much Ado About Nothing’ suggests the play is basically a lot of fuss about nothing and maybe all about something which is largely exaggerated. Shakespeare set the play in Messina …

William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights of all time. He is well known for his plays such as, “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliet” and “Midsummer Nights Dream” but maybe one of his least known plays, “Much Ado About Nothing” is the best of the lot. “Much Ado About …

Shakespeare wrote in a time of theatrical excellence, his love of language and sense of theatre aided him in the production of countless plays and poems. Much Ado About Nothing is a play of love and war, with a twist of comedy to lighten the tension ensuring the audience does …

Silas Marner tells the story of a weaver who lives, and works in a cottage just outside the village of Raveloe. Raveloe is a very different world from the northern town, Lantern Yard, where Silas grew up, and belonged to a strict religious group. Silas suffered from caleptic fits and …

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, …

During the course of this novel Silas Marner’s life undergoes some dramatic changes. These changes affect his life in many different ways. He had to learn to cope when he was betrayed by the people he trusted the most. He was forced to move to a village where he becomes …

Both the ‘Love Song of J .Alfred Prufrock’ and ‘Preludes’ through vivid imagery and compelling metaphors, convey to the reader the thoughts and emotions of the author. Eliot as all Modernists through the use of distinguished themes and characteristics manipulated traditional forms of poetry and sought to project their own …

Regardless of the type of life a person has lived, whether it is one of luxury or hardship, all people have one thing in common. Each person has had their own conflicts that have left a mark or impression on their lives; much is the same in the film “Life …

‘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 …