Novel Essays

Firstly I’ll introduce the two novels as I know that some of you haven’t read both of them, 1984 was written in 1948 so it is meant to be a dystopian future, a dystopia being the opposite of a utopia. It focuses on the life of Winston who is trying …

Q1. Explain the mystery surrounding Uncle Marcos’ death. A1. Uncle Marcos, Clara’s maternal uncle was an adventurer and an explorer, who stayed with the Del Valle family in between his trips. Just as many of the other characters in the novel possess eccentric and unique characteristics, Uncle Marcos’ travels were …

The novel “Eugene Onegin” is the result of creative maturity of Pushkin, and it is the richest content and its most popular product. The text reveals to the reader a broad picture of Russian reality since the beginning of the XIX century, populated by full-blooded human characters.Among them stands a …

To begin with, Curley’s wife is an extremely lonely woman; she has a loveless marriage and no friends out in the ranch. This means she has no one to talk to, she can’t talk to her husband because he “spends all his time sayin’ what he’s gonna do to guys …

In the novel ‘The Crow Road’ by lain Banks there are four deaths which I feel are very important. However, the death which I feel is most significant in the novel is that of Prentice’s father, Kenneth. This death is significant because it is relevant to the development of Prentice’s …

Cal is an insightful story set it Northern Ireland in Ulster in the mid 1970’s, where Mac Laverty opens the novel with the protagonist Cal, a Catholic teenager living during the sectarian Troubles where there was intense socio-political and religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, involving the rule of British …

Nightfall, by Isaac Asimov, takes a simple premise, commonplace for us, and puts it in a foreign context. In Nightfall’s world, a planet with six suns, no one is ever in the dark. There is no night, as the day is constant and unending. Every 2049 years, at a time …

Charles Dickens is a 19th century writer which affects his writing and language used within the novel. He has also written many other famous books such as “Oliver Twist”, “The Christmas carols”, and “David Copperfield”. The Dickens family were of middleclass status and had sturdy finances until the father was …

Throughout any childhood, one is immensely impacted by the influences brought from their peers. In many cases, this pressure can alter one’s lifestyle, in both positive and negative aspects. This exertion of pressure is widely illustrated within John Wyndham’s novel, The Chrysalids. By thoroughly analyzing protagonist David Storm’s relationships with …

It all began when my rich Uncle Robert passed away last year. He lived out in the country somewhere, in some big mansion up in the hills, I had been called there by the butler, and he said it was urgent. I took the train to the nearest station, but …