Writers Essays

These short stories that I am writing about are called gothic mysteries. This is a type of gothic fiction that existed around the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. Gothic mysteries usually have unusual settings, for example an isolated castle, near the railway etc. Gothic mysteries type stories …

Compare and contrast their proposals of marriage. Mr Collins is a clergyman who works for his patroness Lady Catherine de bourgh and who proposed to Elizabeth Bennet. The main reason why he wished to marry was to please Lady Catherine. The reasons for Mr Collins choice of one of the …

Much Ado about Nothing is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare. Although nobody knows exactly when Shakespeare wrote the play, it is thought that the play was written in 1596 to 1599. The main characters in the play are Leonato, Hero, Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio and of course Don John …

Deception- to mislead, delude or cheat a person.In both scenes a character is decepted. In Act 2 Scene 3 Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato deceive Benedict. They tell him that Beatrice is in love with him. In Act 3 Scene 1 Beatrice is deceived by Hero and Ursula. Both Benedick …

The assertion that Don John is a plot device, rather than a truly complex character, is true. Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy in which the conflicts are intended to engender humor and levity later in the play. Don John’s character is a plot device that Shakespeare uses …

An audience have expectations that the opening scene offers them the chance of escapism and to enter the play’s illusion of plots, setting, characters and themes. To do this effectively in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Shakespeare has compelled audiences with emotional engagement enhanced with a hint of quirky humour to …

At the start of the play Claudio is strongly opposed to the idea of marriage but later he falls in love with Hero. Don John is jealous of Claudio because his brother Don Pedro likes him so much and because he is the prince’s brother yet he is of the …

The main plot of this story is love and deception. In a small town in called Messina, in Sicily a soldier called Claudio falls in love with a lady called Hero, but he is to shy to approach her. Benedick tries to persuade him not to fall in love and …

William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth night is a play of contrast. Some of the contrast in the play, include humour and seriousness; excess and poverty; appearance and reality. All of these contrasts affect Shakespeare’s audience, because he wanted to appeal to all different classes of the society. This meant he needed …

Two of the most important scenes in Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ are undoubtedly the gulling scenes between Benedick and Beatrice. These two scenes are inextricably linked, but similar as they are in how they are carried out and in purpose, there are also several differences. Before we can compare …