Life Essays

The play, Journey’s End, was written by R C Sheriff just ten years after the First World War in 1929. The play is set in a single dark, damp dugout amongst a front line trench, which has probably been chosen to give a very claustrophobic outlook to the entire piece. …

Journey’s End is about life in the trenches during World War One, and about the depressing one by one, soldiers go ‘over the top’ and meet with death routine. The endless spectacle of death has taken its affect on Captain Stanhope; psychologically scarred he becomes an alcoholic to ease the …

Written by R. C Sherriff in 1928, ‘Journey’s End’ was the cause of controversy when the play was first produced in 1929, as the play’s subject matter, the War itself, was still considered a raw period in history. ‘Strange Meeting’, written by Susan Hill in 1971, shared this subject matter …

In this assignment I am going to refer to two specific scenes in which I think dramatic tension is created and relieved extremely well using words, gesture, expressions and movement. The two scenes I am going to look at do portray the real life of war, showing how war can …

Tickets please is set at the time of war, when all the men who were not disabled, too old or too young were at war. The society is very female dominated, with women doing the jobs of men. The tram girls have power. The girls are described as “fearless young …

Goblin Market and the Lady of Shalott have strong themes of love and death, which with issues such as temptation. Goblin Market has a strong Christian theme running through it as well. The Lady of Shalott deals with isolation ,which leads to temptation, circled with a feeling of the supernatural, …

In this essay I am going to examine Macbeth’s character and decide whether Macbeth was a hero or a Tyrant. Macbeth was both described by people as a hero which is someone in which is admired for nobility, courage, outstanding achievements. He was also described as a tyrant which means …

‘Julius Caesar’ is one of Shakespeare’s most thought provoking plays. It depicts the story of Julius Caesar, one of history’s most successful dictators, who was killed by a group of politicians of whom was his close friend Brutus, which led him to say his iconic last words: ‘Et tu Brut�’, …

Sylvia Plath wrote the bell jar shortly written after her suicide; Esther Greenwood takes her burden of being the representative of Plath in an unreliable narrator’s point of view autobiography. Ted Hughes, the British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath …

Sylvia Plath was one of the leading poets of her time. She was born in Boston and later moved to England where she met and married a leading English poet Ted Hughes. Both her and Hughes were unhappy in their relationship. This lead Plath to become suicidal and paranoid, which …