Life Essays

A sense of fright and panic is created in the reader in gothic short stories through HG Wells uses various techniques and a wide range of vocabulary to create tension and fear in the reader in the story ‘The Red Room’. Wells deliberately selects an arrogant and over-confident narrator who …

Back from the best holidays ever, now school. Great! Everybody was leaping off the buses as they entered the bus park, keen to see friends they haven’t seen in ages, others dozing off on the bus as they haven’t been awake so early in weeks. The playground was the meeting …

Fairy tales give us an insight into the values of the society in which they were written. In different appropriations, we are presented with the author’s reaction to the values of their society and/or the values of previous societies. Through the study of these appropriations we observe the relationship between …

Fear is a distinctive characteristic of Gothic literature; there are many types of fear. The fear represented in The Red Room is terror, a fear of darkness and the unknown. In the story The Terrible Old Man the idea of ‘the other’ or ‘the outsider’ is used. In One Summer …

BANG, BANG! the sound of shotgun bullets were flying through the air as we chased the once notorious Salloo brothers through back streets of L.A we were right on their heels as right at that moment a bullet went into the older brother Jeano. He fell to the floor with …

The Birlings are an upper class family living in pre-war England; they think very highly of themselves and are quite shallow minded. They concentrate centrally on material possessions. The Birlings live in a well-established and comfortable home, which is richly furnished, yet does not have a hint of homeliness or …

It is Sixty years since ‘An Inspector Calls’ was first performed in Moscow after the Russia Revolution in 1945. The play has remained popular ever since this first production and was revived very successfully at the National Theatre in 1994, only seven years after Mrs. Thatcher made her famous statement …

We have been at sea three days now and I am having the time of my life! I’m not sure that I’ll ever want to get off when the ship docks in America. Yesterday Alice and I booked a session on the squash court, it was great fun but as …

In the 1930s the world became a much more difficult place for the league to deal with. The reasons for this happening was because of things such as the great depression, the failure to reach any agreement about disarmament, aggressive policies by Japan in Manchuria and by Italy in Abyssinia …

When looked up the definition for successful is: 1) Having succeeded in ones endeavours, 2) marked by favourable outcome, 3) having obtained wealth or eminence. For this to apply to domestic policy then the points made above would have to apply to the whole country which they do not. It …