Life Essays

The first story to be discussed is called “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” written by James Thurber in 1942. This story is set in America in the 1940’s around the time of the Second World War. The story follows the life of an American couple, Walter Mitty, who frequently …

Love poetry is an effective and popular way of showing ones emotions without having to go into explanations and detail. There are many different kinds of love poems, each with their own unique styles and structure. The purpose of this essay is to consider how different poets have explored different …

The three poems covered are; Go Lovely Rose (GLR), To His Coy Mistress (THCM), and The Flea (TF). They are written by the metaphysicals, a group of 17th century poets who all wrote about similar subjects and went about these subjects by using diverse and imaginative means although unfamiliar with …

In literature, as in life, people are sometimes left alone, to fend for themselves, without guidance from more experienced individuals. In these cases, the idea of the individual is destroyed, and one leader takes an absolute control over the groups actions and thoughts, as is the case in both The …

A Tale of Two Cities is said to be Dickens’ best constructed novel, as his first few were criticized to be strings of sketches. Great Expectations, for example, had a looser framework, as the plot did not include much structure and style, compassing merely of a first-person account of events. …

The play ‘Educating Rita’ written by Willy Russell is a fictional, yet vaguely an autobiographical depiction of the developing relationship formed between a budding, impulsive young student named Rita and her somewhat satirically humored tutor, Frank. There are two major themes dealt with in the play: a clash of cultures …

“In every man’s heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused”. This quote from Sigmund Freud shows us that evil can at times constitute the actions and consequences reflecting mankind’s impulsive and vindictive instincts. The book ‘Lord Of The …

Fear is an elemental part of the boys’ life, it coexists with them throughout the novel, contorting and evolving at the hands of the boys’ imagination. This fear mutates, it grows from being just a singular emotion to a catalyst of events; it lives almost a life of its own …

Many poets write about death and how they feel when they lose loved ones, and a good example of this W. H Auden whose poem ,’stop all the clocks… ‘ outlines his feelings about how he thinks the world should change because his lover is dead. Another poem by Christana …

1. This novel by Steven Herrick called “Love Ghost & Nose Hair” is quite an awkward title in my opinion. This properly wouldn’t even be a title that I would use. I didn’t really like the fact that they keep mentioning nose hair so frequency, because it didn’t really have …