Writers Essays

George Orwell uses Persuasive techniques in the speech of old major, in order to show us how rebellion can be incited. Orwell conveys his own opinion about a beginning of a rebellion through this novel. His opinion about the beginning of a rebellion also consists of how the elders or …

In Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey, Odysseus leads his men through the unthinkable, and successfully gets them out of harms way because he utilizes his ability to formulate plans, and carry them out quickly and effectively. Throughout the epic, Odysseus makes numerous decisions that affect him and his men, …

George Orwell, in his novel, 1984, has created a bleak totalitarian society in which The Party has become all powerful and their goal is to control all thoughts, all actions and to suppress all individuality. Love of family, romantic love and sexual love are all key to a person’s individuality …

One of the first lines in the play Twelfth Night reveals the main theme of the play. Curio asks, “Will you go hunt, my lord?” And Duke Orsino replies, “Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, methought she purged the …

According to Jean Jacque Rousseau, “The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.” By this, Rousseau indicates that without imagination, life would not be as ideal as it is now. As a result, a person who has no imagination in his life is dull. Two …

In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen aims to illustrate the truth about the war. He wants to show people the difference between what happened in the trenches and the lie being told at home. He uses metaphors, comparisons, images and a sinister tone to express his feelings …

The power of Mother Nature has always been envied, cursed, and awe-inspiring. In old Anglo-Saxon literature, most works were devoted to the sea, and in “The Seafarer” it applauds the sea, but at the same time the author has deference for its power. Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” also …

History had left many with wrongful convictions, while no one can be certain of a person’s innocents, looking back it appears as if many trials were conducted poorly, and that the convictions of were based on unreliable and unbelievable circumstantial evidence. Now, only in hindsight, is it seen the errors …

When analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations, by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively, one usually stops and ponders, what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you, quite a lot. To begin with, both are fictional autobiographies, narrated personally …

One of the central themes in ANIMAL FARM by GEORGE ORWELL is the exploration of how a new social or political regime can fail to live up to the original idealism that inspired its introduction. In the modern world there are many examples of this occurring, such as in Iraq …