Novel Essays

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has all the characteristics of a Gothic Horror text. For example, most of the settings are dark and mysterious, women play a very small part in the text and there is a beast, Hyde. In Frankenstein and Dracula, two Gothic horror …

The novel I am analysing is “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and it was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886. Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. In my opinion, this influenced him to write this novel because, like Jekyll and Hyde, he led a …

Sometime called the “Father of science fiction”, Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent, England. His father, a professional cricketer player and shopkeeper, and his mother, a former lady’s maid, raised Wells with the idea that he would find a place in the work world …

In the opening paragraph, the author uses a lot of proper nouns for example ‘Rue Guenegaud and the ‘Passage du Pont-Neuf’ which lends a sense of authenticity to the story. The author writes in such detail and it seems as if the writer has been there before which is shown …

In the novel Jane Eyre Jane stays in many places, and the style of the place shows how good her life is going to be there. Thornfield is very different to the other places she stays at and in this essay I will explain. At the beginning of Chapter Eleven …

“Pride and Prejudice” was written by English novelist Jane Austen who was born on 16 December 1775. “Pride and Prejudice” is one of the finest novels she wrote. It is a novel about certain families and individuals developing feelings for each other due to certain events. It was published in …

On the evening of December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman calmly approached John Lennon outside of his apartment, pulled out a gun and fired five steady shots, four of which hit their mark. As the former Beatle, semi-conscious, lay on the ground haemorrhaging, Chapman pulled out his copy of The …

Many people believe that when reading a book written in first person narrative, it is an unreliable source. This is because it is a biased account, as the narrator will only tell his or her own side of the story. This is partly true of the novel “Enduring Love” by …

“Time….is always susceptible to human interpretation. And though time is partly a human fabrication, it is also that from which no parent or child is immune.” Time is a major theme in Ian McEwan’s ‘The Child In Time’. He treats the subject irreverently, ‘debunking chronology by the nonlinearity of his …

Ian McEwan uses many ways to present the unusual idea of the relationship between Jed and Joe to the reader. The extract raises many issues; love and religion important; how is this “strange adventure” perceived by the different characters of the novel? McEwan employs narrative technique, structure and careful manipulation …