Literature Essays

J. B Priestley is the author of the play titled “An Inspector Calls. ” The play was originally written in 1944, during the World War II but it was only performed from 1946 when the war ended. The end of a major war causes a lot of changes in a …

‘The Winter’s Tale’ written by Shakespeare was one of his four last plays or ‘late romances’ that he wrote. It has been categorised in the four last plays because it shares similar features to ‘The Tempest,’ , ‘Pericles, Prince of Tyre,’ and, ‘Cymbeline,’ as they have a redemptive plotline with …

When Arthur Miller’s The Crucible was being made into a movie, he decided to write an article called “Why I Wrote the Crucible” in the New Yorker. In his article, Miller explains his reasons behind writing his play. In this article, he compares the mass hysteria and fear of the …

The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920s and in this time wealth was spread all over America, particularly in New York, and in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional villages of the East and West Egg, where The Great Gatsby was set. In America many people had made their money by …

Zora Neale Hurston bypassed the conventional African-American writer of her era by not advocating race consciousness in her short story “Sweat.” By ignoring political expectations in her writing, Hurston introduces the reader to African-American Folklore. First published in 1926, Hurston shuns her contemporaries and white, male dominated publishing companies to …

The storyline develops each time the witches appear, but it’s never for a good cause. Every time the witches arise there is a change in the play, for instance; appearing in bad weather such as, thunder, lightning and rain clearly indicates that they have evil thoughts within them. The audience …

What Is Literature Review?The majority are conscious that it’s a procedure for collecting information from different sources and then documenting it, however, few possess any concept of how to assess the details or even the way to present this. Writing a literature review needs the best and proven guidelines. This …

Educating Rita was written by Willy Russell and first appeared on stage in 1980. It tells the story of a twenty six year old hairdresser from Liverpool, “Rita” White, who wants to break away from her stereotype, and to “discover” herself. She thinks that by going on an English literature …

The work of the confessional poet Sylvia Plath relates closely to issues that are the concerns of audiences today, forty years after her death. The relevance of her poems lies in the fact that, despite her cultural context of America and Europe in the 1950s and 60s, she writes about …

“Then I shall die as one of them! ” A line said by one of the most noble of characters in my favorite movies of all time. The Lord of the Rings is a story that is epically written by J. R. R Tolkien. It is a three part book …