Literature Essays

“Jane Eyre”, by Charlotte Bronte was written in the 1840’s and published in 1847. This book follows Jane’s life story from childhood to adulthood. In part it is an autobiography of Charlotte Bronte because her sister died at a school similar to Lowood. Charlotte Bronte uses this long, complicated novel …

Imagine a girl growing up around the turn of the nineteenth century. An orphan, she has no family or friends, no wealth or position. Misunderstood and mistreated by the relatives she does have, she is sent away to a school where the cycle of cruelty continues. All alone in the …

Pip, when he was a boy, knew nothing of the ‘high life’. Right at the beginning of the story Pip was caught by Abel Magwitch and Able forced Pip to help him. When Pip does, it was one of the best, or the worst events of his life. When Miss …

Throughout Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ Pip’s character undergoes constant changes when it develops, matures, and his experience of the outside world grows. Dickens tells the story through Pip narrating and this gives him a personal connection with the reader and it is easy to understand and reciprocate his feelings. One …

Great Expectations is a bildungsroman written in 1861 by Charles Dickens. In the novel, we follow Pip throughout the early stages of his life, as he realises his own low social status in society. Pip has a working class background and is an aspiring blacksmith, but things change and he …

The writers of horror stories play on their reader’s fears by using a short story to tell a story. In doing this, the writer concentrates on a main point in smaller detail which helps to maximize the impact of horror and suspense created. “The Moonlit Road” by Ambrose Bierce, is …

The main points in this story are the Signalman himself, the spectre that repeatedly appears to him, to seemingly give a vague indication of impending danger, the strange connection between the narrator’s unspoken words and the spectre’s gestures, and the foretold deaths on the Line. Naturally, Dickens will need to …

The Lamb to the slaughter story is about a couple who seemingly had a happy marriage. Until one day her husband comes home and discovers that the marriage is over. Incensed, she hits him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb! She is particularly concerned about the consequences …

“I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated. …It’s a great cake. A bride’s cake. Mine'” Chapter 11, Page 84-84 This commentary will be about a passage that is obtained from the book Great Expectations, a book that was written by Charles Dickens. The novel is about …

Both “Great Expectations” and “The Fallen Idol” are written by exceptional writers. The novel “Great Expectations” was set out in the Victorian period whereas the short story “The Fallen Idol” was set in the period of the 1940’s in London. “Great Expectations” was a buildings roman. This showed the process …