Literature Essays

Sheila’s character develops drastically during the play. She starts off as a spoilt and irresponsible character, but later understands the consequences of her actions and is able to make mature decisions, like breaking off her engagement with Gerald. In the beginning of the play, Sheila was presented as spoilt and …

To comprehend Daisy’s part in the story and to break down her activities, understanding the setting of the 1920s – particularly the part of ladies – is critical. Above all else, despite the fact that ladies’ rights were extending amid the 1920s (prodded by the appropriation of the nineteenth Amendment …

Religion undeniably plays a critical role and function in the novel Jane Eyre. Religion and the characters it presents are used by Bronte throughout the piece to raise poignant questions regarding moral boundaries, the exact nature of religion as well as the guidelines we importance of such a moral code …

Both Bram Stokers’ classic Gothic novel ‘Dracula’ and Sarah Waters’ contemporary Gothic novel ‘The Little Stranger’ use gothic tropes to create a sense of fear in their audiences. However, the ending juxtapose each other in the sense that Stoker vanquishes all evil while Waters’ leaves her ending ambiguously fearful and …

The Tempest is a play of such ambiguity that it becomes difficult to discuss the subject of a colonialist discourse in isolation. It becomes inextricably linked with not only power and authority, but also with illusion and reality, with redemption and regeneration. It is through the use of language, relationships …

The American dream, as described by Martin Luther King Jr. , “… is a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. ” …

An Inspector Calls is a play inspecting the death of Eva Smith who from a terrible life ended it by swallowing a strong disinfected that burnt her insides out, as the Inspector stated she felt like she couldn’t go on much longer. The play was set in 1912, two years …

The first scene of the play is anything but calm. There are three evil and unnatural looking witches meeting on an isolated moor. Before any of the witches speak there is a bolt of lightening and thunder sounds. There is a misty fog and it is dark. Although there is …

By the word Satire, I understand that it is the use of mockery or exaggeration to expose faults in a subject. Huxley’s subject is unclear as he himself, in the introduction, was said to be unsure whether he was writing a satire, a prophecy or a blueprint and so the …

Poe starts off by stating that the narrator was ‘sick – sick unto death’. The repetition of the word sick here emphasis how bad he feels, also ‘sick unto death’ suggests that he already feels like he is dead. Death is emphasised more with ‘the dread sentence of death’. This …