Life Essays

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 …

Daisy and Gatsby fell in love before he left for the war in 1917. Gatsby had lied to try to impress the girl he found so charming and elegant, and it worked. Daisy promised to wait for his return. However, two years later, desperate for someone to love her, she …

Cartel agreements are “an institutional form of collusion”1. They present an alternative to traditional models of oligopolistic interaction, such as Betrand or Cournot models, that assume that firms act solely in order to maximise their total profits. In cartels, firms cooperate in order to maximise their joint profits, eventually leading …

Following a rejection of the positivist approach in the discipline of human geography, an emergence of a relevance debate became apparent. Geographers became increasingly concerned with making geography relevant to and critical of real world problems. This relevance debate then gave rise to an opening up of geographical sub-disciplines, including …

Tragic heroes first originated from ancient Greek tragedies. As the name suggests, tragic heroes are exceptional beings, with characteristics which should have led to them achieving greatness, however they all have a fatal flaw, which always ultimately leads to their downfall. Some sort of human weakness too is always present …

I agree, but only to a considerable extent. For Macbeth, when things had begun to stray from his control, he could have stood his place and be determined to do what is right, but he did not. He let the situation become beyond his control. He was a good and …

In this essay I am going to examine about Macbeth characteristics. Is he a cruel tyrant or a tragic hero? He has the elements of Shakespeare’s tragic heroic qualities. He is born of noble birth because he is a relation to the king. He is responsible for his own fate …

The ribbons and bows accenting the short soft lines of the male costume demanded elegantly controlled flourishes to give them just treatment. The Restoration gentleman needed a swaggering, elegant movement in order to carry off the full weight of the layers of fabric and ribbons. He dominated his costume with …

‘Growing up’ by Joyce Cary and ‘The Son’s Veto’ by Thomas Hardy have two very different story lines. The first difference that I noticed was that they were written in two very different times. ‘The Son’s Veto’ was written in 1901 and ‘Growing up’ is quite a modern contrast as …