Time Essays

After the Time Traveller has finished telling his story to his friends, he asks the question “is it all only a dream? “, The Time Traveller senses that they do not believe him after responding with negative reactions, “The Editor stood up with a sigh. ‘What a pity it is …

What inspired H. G. Wells to develop and later write ‘The Time Machine’ was his surroundings. Wells wrote ‘The Time Machine’ in 1894 just as he was beginning to discover the world, but what makes Wells’ situation so unique and interesting is that he was growing up in a time …

The Time Traveller expected the people of the future, and their technology to be greatly ahead of ours: ‘I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be Incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything’ He was discouraged to find …

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 …

“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 …

By close reference to some key scenes from Pride and Prejudice and the two short stories we have studied, show how ideas concerning love and marriage have changed since Jane Austen’s time and how this is reflected. In the period when Jane Austen lived society was structured, society was ruled …

The poem ‘Once Upon a Time’ is written by a male African poet, Gabriel Okara in XXth century. This poem is the story of a grown up man who once was an innocent child. Now the poet reminisces about a time when people were caring and sincere. He regrets that …

Thomas hardy was born in the late 19th century in a village near Dorchester, the country town of Dorset. He lived in a tiny village with a population of no more than 50 people. It was quite acceptable in this era for children to be uneducated but Hardy was lucky …

I am going to examine the hardships endured at home, in institutions and in society of children in Dickenson times. At this time poverty and cruelty was rife and commonplace in society, institutions which were supposed to care for children, exploited and abused their authority over them. These institutions were …

The two poems I have been studying are, Percy Bysshe Shelly’s ‘Ozymandias’ and Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’. Both poems are examples that show us how time can affect heroes and kings. They explore the theme of how human power is transient. I am going to explore this theme by studying …