Nature Essays

In both Like Water for Chocolate and The Outsider, the main characters experience a blissful realization at the end of the book while facing imminent death. With the exception of the last few pages of each book, the two main characters, Tita and Meursault are largely static in their development; …

‘The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was a novella in 1886 by Robert Louis Stephenson. The story is set in Victorian London, besides the fact that Stephenson has never travelled to London in his life and was ‘born and bread’ in Edinburgh. Reputation is a key feature …

First published in 1886, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of Mr Utterson’s concern when his friend Dr Henry Jekyll, a well known chemist, befriends a rather mysterious, short-tempered man named Edward Hyde. Worried for his friend, Mr Utterson decides …

The Australia Waterfront dispute occurred during 1997-1998. The dispute has been described as a war, which influenced the nation profoundly and immensely (Trinca and Davies, 2000). The Waterfront dispute caused a wide-ranging debate about the role of the Australian unions, the effectiveness of the industrial relations system and the effectiveness …

In Much Ado About Nothing, the young lovers Claudio and Hero are pulled apart by the devastating forces of malicious rumours. After having been denounced as a ‘common stale’ at her own wedding in IV:i, Hero collapses and is taken for dead. Claudio, upon learning that Hero was never guilty …

Dear Dr. Sonheim, While we have read Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale together, this time I enjoyed reading it much more. Instead of wondering what would happen, I was able to focus more intently on the characters. Although I remembered her role in unveiling Hermione’s statue, I did not really begin …

The “Eve of Waterloo” is about a surprise attack on a British army. The soldiers and commanders are enjoying a party when the French attack them interrupting their celebrations and forcing them to defend themselves. War soon followed. The poem is organised into eight stanzas with an “ababbcbcc” rhyming scheme. …

In a “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Shakespeare wrote the famous quote “the course of true love never did run smooth”. Some poets agree with this statement and some give a more positive view. The two poems that I am going to deal with that agree with the statement are “First Frost”, …

Ted Hughes Regards the elements as a powerful force in many of his poems and he is in awe of the weather particularly noticeable in ‘Tractor’, ‘Warm and Cold’ and ‘Wind’ in which Hughes seems to be quarantined because the storms are so violent that all the inhabitants of the …

In this essay I am going to be looking at two poems by the late D. H Lawrence. Although an accomplished poet, Lawrence is sometimes said to have a cynical and negative outlook on things, this is evident in the poems that he wrote. By studying the two poems “Beautiful …