Writers Essays

The play ‘The Devil’s Disciple’ was written by Irish playwright Bernard Shaw and is set in New Hampshire in the year 1777. The story focuses on the town of Websterbridge, the Dudgeon family and the local Presbyterian minister Anthony Anderson. The current political situation sees the American colonies struggling to …

Stream of consciousness greatly affects the way an author can present his story to his readers. The way that they can shift from topic to topic is incredible because it makes the story flow a lot smoother. This style of writing is very hard to conquer but James Joyce holds …

“The Soul selects her own Society” is one of the greatest poems written by Emily Dickinson. It personifies her literary career to the “t” with the upmost descriptiveness. This poem describes a difficult selection of the soul between two societies; popular majority and self majority. It displays a light sense …

This paper will compare and contrast two essays. The first being “Living like Weasels” by Annie Dillard. The second essay called “Nature” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. They both focus on the natural world and human living. The essays seem similar on the surface but use different types of analogies and …

Most notably recognized for their strange and bizarre stories, both Edgar Allen Poe and William Faulkner wrote several disturbing narratives. As such, it is not surprising to find that Poe’s story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” and Faulkner’s tale, “A Rose for Emily,” have much in common. Among their …

Some characters in works of literature only appear briefly but have a tremendous impact on the literature. These characters’s significant presence often influences the actions or development of the other characters in the literary work. In Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, Ben Loman is the character that does just …

In this literary study, the theme of identity will be examined in a character analysis of Pip in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens. In the novel, Pip is a young man who is the narrator and the main character used to define identity. Pip is a confused character constantly seeking …

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of the novel The Great Gatsby, depicts the rich as a fickle, unstructured group of people whose sole purpose in life is to make every waking moment as pleasurable as possible. By existing in this manner, the rich have no concern for the well being …

Eliot writes of culture as “the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts, in their social system, in their habits and customs, in their religion.(Milner, A (1994) Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: UCC Press.) A culture, …

Sylvia Plaths’ poem “To Eva Descending the Stair” may at first seem only a petty, pretty piece with a few good alliterations which plays upon the overused mystery of the cosmos. However, beyond the references to the moon, sun, and stars, Plath cleverly hides deep symbols of pagan religion and …