Literature Essays

The film I decided to choose calls The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. The movie is based on a book written by a very famous writer J.R.R. Tolkien; the director of the film is Peter Jackson; it takes place in the Middle Earth. This is a …

Act 1 scene 1 of Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ opens with the three unnatural beings of the play, the witches. The opening of Shakespeare’s play is set on a baron heath quiet and deserted the perfect place for weird happenings especially with the claps of thunder in the background. This omits …

Today we know more about Shakespeare than any other play writers of his time because of his mastering of English literature. However, today it is true to say that we have no record of what Shakespeare actually looked like. William Shakespeare was born in Snitterfield, a small town in Stratford …

As part of our GCSE coursework, we have been asked to study various productions and write an essay showing how different effects create different atmospheres and responses and we have to decide whether these productions have been successful or otherwise. I have chosen to analyse initial scene, Act (I), scene …

(a) A Shrinking Labour Pool and Old Age Dependency This situation occurs when there are both low birth and death rates (this mainly occurs in MEDC’s). Because there are low birth rates there are less people of a working age (economically active), as the generation of low birth rates move …

This review of the literature suggests that women athletes who play traditionally male identified sport are often stigmatized as lesbians because it makes them too “mannish” (Pharr, 1996) or “ugly as a dyke” (Broad, 2001). I chose this topic because I play women’s rugby and I have experienced this “She’s …

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein sits in the collective conscious as the ultimate scary story; the seminal text on what the Western monster manifests itself as. When analyzing the complex relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, and together the effect of sexuality, a lesser said, more engrained message comes forth, which involves …

A Roman man had many options when it came to sexually gratifying himself. Firstly if he were married there would be his wife, but this certainly did not have to be his only sexual partner. A Roman man would often have slaves “and the possibility that their master might make …

The Ancient Greek household has often been described as a place that contained many boundaries, whether physical or non-physical (Antonaccio 2000: 522). What could have appeared to be a normal room may well have been forbidden to certain types of people. In our attempts to explain the notion of public …

The “Playboy of the Western World” was written in 1907, and set in Ireland. At this time, Ireland was still suffering tragically from the potato famine that had hit the country in 1848. In order to escape the famine, many emigrated to the world powers of the time, mainly Britain …