Literature Essays

Aldair, Across The Misty Sea is wondrous imaginative novel that takes place in the dreadful lands of Merrkia. Aldair is a member of Signar-Haldring crew. Halding is the captain of the ship that Aldair is a member of and is his close companion. Rhalgorn is a companion of Aldair. Throughout …

” Neighbor Rosicky “, written in 1928 and collected in the volume Obscure Destinies in 1932, is generally considered one of Willa Cather’s most successful short stories. It is a character study of Anton Rosicky, a man who, facing the approach of death, reflects on the meaning and value of …

1. Analysis of the Artworks Skungpoomery – Textual Analysis This is a comedy and uses two stereotypical characters as the basis for the humour. There is a weak and easily dominated son and a formidable and dominant mother. We did a visualisation exercise and I view the mother (Mrs Wibble) …

“An Inspector Calls” is a play that was written by John Boynton Priestley. He uses the play as an example of what can happen if we are ignorant to the feelings of others. In the play many characters are symbolized as stereotypical social figures who state extremist social views and …

Dracula was written in 1897 by Irish Novelist Bram Stoker, Other Novels written Pre – 1940 included; The Invisible Man by H. G Wells (1866 – 1966), Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louise Stevenson ( 1850 – 1894), Dr Frankenstein and the Monster by Mary Shelly ( 1797 …

Although this story is unconventional it employs many techniques found in the more conventional ghost stories, use of tension, suspense and doubt. Storr takes and develops all that is in the more conventional story, applying it in different ways to crossing over. The writer continually questions the way in which …

I was surprised with this book. All in all I enjoyed reading this book. I was surprised when the author leaped onto the subject of young adolescent boys being gay. I imagine that most adolescent boys would react the same way as A.J. Brandiosa did when he first found out …

Context: Luka is a child who is being abused by his mum and dad. The stimulus for this piece of writing was a song about this boy the song sends the message out that he is not being cared for and he has learnt not to argue anymore or its …

The extract taken from ‘The Cheerleader’ uses a mixture of formal and informal lexis. It is formal to an extent, as the story is being narrated it uses formal lexis like “liability” and other such words, giving the text a sense of seriousness. The speech of the vampire also sounds …

Introduction For unit 2 of Drama, we are studying Teechers which is by John Goodber. Goodber is well known for plays such as Teechers, Bouncers and Shakers. Teechers is a play inside a play. Most of the plays Goodber writes are for few actors, so each actor has multiple characters …