Writers Essays

William Blake, one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism, wrote the “Songs of Innocence and Experience” in the 1790s. The poems juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression. The collection explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives on …

“The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy describes the sinking of the Titanic to comment on the superiority of nature over the fleeting reality of vanity. The narrator uses the inevitable meeting of the iceberg and the ship to demonstrate nature’s power. The voyage seemed extremely safe and confident …

In Jack Frost’s “A Considerable Speck”, the speaker is a writer who, before completing his piece notices “a speck that would have been beneath my sight” (line 1). Initially, the speaker remarks, the writer “poised my pen in air to stop it with a period of ink” before this microscopic …

Introduction Favoured with a unique geographical location and varied landforms, India is home to about one third of known life forms in the world. There are over 500 species of mammals and 2060 species of birds that are truly Indian. Rapid growth of human and livestock population since the turn …

Question: How does Dickens in his portrayal of Miss Havisham explore the theme of isolation? The oldest of eight children, Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. Dickens experienced a very traumatic childhood which included the ordeal of seeing two of his brother pass away. John Dickens, his father, …

Coldness is a prominent theme in both Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome and Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man.” When one thinks of coldness, the misery, the emptiness, and the lack of life associated with it also come to mind. Ethan Frome and “The Snowman” show that the coldness of one’s surroundings …

In Charles Dickens’, “A Tale of Two Cities”, the author continually foreshadows the future revolution. Dickens depicts a Paris crowd, united by their poverty, in a frenzy to gather wine from a wine cask that was shattered. Also, we find a macabre scene in which Madame Defarge sits quietly knitting …

The essay of “The Storm”, written by Kate Chopin, illustrates a story of one woman and one man drawn to each other by lust. Situated together by a storm, Calixta, the woman in this essay and “very married woman” has no choice but to let in an old friend and …

When the author is choosing the title of a novel, they have to make sure it stands out, but is still relevant to the story, it also has to evoke interest in someone who casually looks at the book. It has to hint at what the story is about, but …

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth revolves around the downfall of several key characters during the course of this tragic play. Security or overconfidence is a feeling of freedom from danger, care, or fear. When one feels invincible, they may lose all rational thought in their heads as well as in their hearts. …