Sociology Essays

Female and male can be biological categories, but “womanly” and “manly” express cultural ideas of gender, which may cut across and call in question normative lines of sexual difference. From the first scene, with its bearded witches, to the last, where we hear that a boy died “like a man,” …

Thomas Hardy’s works often explore the subjects of relationships, mortality, love and the ‘unflinching rigour’ or pattern of time. He uses the image of a landscape to great effect in both the poem ‘At Castle Boterel’ and the short story ‘The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion’. The poem is …

The play opens on a ghostly, supernatural note with the three witches brewing a spell amidst thunder and lightning as an omen of what is to come. The incantation is not in iambic pentameter but in an archaic and enigmatic language. During this short scene, we hear Macbeth’s name for …

Lady Macbeth is the wife of Macbeth. After concerning a battle Macbeth accidentally bumps into three witches, his life drastically changes after this gathering. The witches predict he will hold three important roles in the future, “All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! Hail to thee, thane of …

I believe that Fanthorpe is indeed a master of speaking in the voice of another. She is capable of seeing things from various perspectives and points of view, and expressing that view in her writing. Fanthorpe herself once mentioned that she enjoyed working for voices in the ‘Browning’ way, and …

The two poems “Telephone Conversion” by Wole Soyinka and the poem “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” by U A Fanthorpe are both about people being interviewed. In the poem, “You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly” there is a candidate edgily sitting in the interviewing room being humiliated …

PC World is a PC retailer that sells to both domestic and business customers in the UK. It is owned by Dixons Stores Group (DSG) and is the group’s PC specialist. PC World operates mainly in retail parks where customers can walk, use public transport or drive to the stores. …

Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales were written in Victorian times and reflects the era of Victorian regime in his stories. The appearance is shown the most important thing and conflict between rich and poor with people having no civil responsibilities at all are often seen in Wilde’s stories. A fairy tale …

Social class is central throughout the novel, and is the basis of which the plot is woven around. At the start of the novel Pip looks at the graves of his parents and tries to find out what people they were and what role they played in society. At this …

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 …