Society Essays

Much Ado About Nothing is a Shakespearian comedy set in Elizabethan society where men were dominant though they had a wide range of attitudes to the positions of women as is explored by the key male characters in the play. In order to detach it from the English audience it …

In many of Eliot’s poems there seem to be two types of society: Polite society, who seem to be very false and never say what they mean, express their feelings or say what they would like. Then there is the other part of society, proletariat, which is common and dirty, …

Harper Lee was born in 1926 and lived in a small, under populated county in Southwest Alabama called Monroeville, (Maycomb is a fictional representation of Monroeville) her father was a lawyer (like Atticus) and served the state legislature for 12 years. Lee was the youngest of 3 children (like Scout). …

There’s this sexist assumption that something is solemn about women who never marry. Men who don’t marry seem roguish and sexually charged, in the Victorian society. Rossetti’s poetry conveyed this by showing the women as disrespected, and treated as “objects” and didn’t have equal rights compared to the men of …

In the novel, ‘To kill a Mocking Bird’, the Author describes the town in which the novel is set, to be a microcosm of America’s society in the 1930’s. By definition, microcosm means; ‘a community or other unity that is an epitome of another unity.’ Epitome means; ‘brief or miniature …

Using Tom Robinson’s trial as a starting point explain what we learn about Maycomb’s society from reading ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Maycomb society is a white society. It has a society, which would typify any small rural town’s society in southern America during the 1930’s; it is full of prejudice, …

In this essay I am going to analyse the role of Victorian women in four short stories. The first story that I will be investigating is called the Half Brother I will be comparing this to all five of the short stories. These were times of great change and although …

At the time when Priestley wrote this play the world war had just ended and Britain was looking forward to a new life and a change from the past. Churchill had just been expelled from Prime Minister and a labour government had just taken over. Because of this, Priestley was …

In this essay I will be investigating the death of Eva Smith and the links between her and the other characters in the play, and if they show any remorse. The first character I intend to discuss is Arthur Birling. Mr Birling is the man of the household, his relationship …

It is 1946 the Second World War has just finished and the world is reeling from 70 million deaths. The world has changed and Priestley is presenting a play about how everything was before in 1912. Priestley is about to bring to light the shocking truth of Britain’s class divide, …