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Epistolary: Letters As A Literary Form

3 Pages 1366 Words
For countless years, or better to say ever since the mighty pen and paper became customary in our daily lives, people who desired to get in touch with others disconnected by distance had no more than one manner to carry out it, and the way was nothing but writing letters. Letters were the lone way of long-distance communiqué, at least...

The Peculiarities Of Social Issues In The Play A Doll's House

4 Pages 1837 Words
This essay is a critical examination of the play, A Doll's House composed by a Norwegian dramatist Ibsen Henrik on 21 December 1879. It considered being the most well known of the scholars play and has been perused in numerous foundations of learning. The play is written in three fundamental acts and has been persuasive in what mankind thought. The...

Feminism In A Doll’s House: Essay

4 Pages 1661 Words
In the nineteenth century, the society was patriarchal and controlled by men, women were deprived of all rights. The society was constructed and conducted in a way that women made completely dependent on men in all cultural domains, religious, political, and economic. This is the background in which Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” is written. Ibsen created a female...

Adult Decisions Of Teens In Romeo And Juliet

2 Pages 755 Words
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, two young teens fall in love at first sight, they are willing to risk it all to be together forever. With the help of their friends and Friar Lawrance they held an unfortunate ending. Being from rival families made it challenging to be together. Romeo and Juliet were young, stubborn and careless which cloud...

Epistolary And Flashback In The Novel Dreaming In Cuban

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The novel Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia is about three Cuban women from one large family who are generations apart. The storyline has particularly placed focus on Celia and her daughters, Felicia, Lourdes, and her daughter Pilar. In this novel, each woman has their issues and their way of dealing with them. However, they have a thing in common:...

Loss Of Faith In Night And The Crucible

4 Pages 1791 Words
Memories and experiences have the ability to change a person’s life. Without them, people would never learn and grow. Although Night and The Crucible are different in that they both have completely different contexts, they both reveal the loss of faith in God through the author's diction, which greatly affects the characters. Night by Elie Wiesel is a book about...

Misogyny in Hamlet

1 Page 619 Words
Allan G. Johnson, a sociologist, defines Misogyny as 'misogyny is a cultural attitude of hatred for females because they are female'. (Johnson, 2000). In the play, Hamlet, there are just two individuals from the cast who are female characters. One is Gertrude who is anticipated as a forbidden, cutthroat and a prostitute. The other, Ophelia, is cast to be an...

Power And Responsibility In The Play An Inspector Calls

3 Pages 1375 Words
An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley deals with the theme of power which is conveyed as; an ability to influence the behaviour of others or events, this is demonstrated through the speech and actions of the characters. The play is deliberately set in 1912 (in Brumley, England), to show the distinct gender imbalances and class divisions which were apparent in...

Romeo And Juliet: Strengths And Weaknesses

2 Pages 1010 Words
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Romeo is the young boy looking for love, Juliet is the clever girl, and Capulet is the protective father. William Shakespeare made these characters like this so the audience could relate to their characteristics and personalities. William Shakespeare made complex characters throughout The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with both strengths and weaknesses. Throughout the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet...

In The Wild: Is The Main Character Rational?

3 Pages 1532 Words
In the novel, Into the wild. John krakauer talks about Chris McCandles a genius that followed his dreams. Or others say an idiot that left his family and try to survive on his own in the wild. Chris McCandles lived for 113 days out in the wild with bits of supplies that he had at the moment. It’s crazy how...

Killing And Kindness In The Lottery

2 Pages 1029 Words
In 'The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson there is a lot of pointless violence. Her story emphasizes the idea that all Americans are constantly trying to do bad. The yearly ritual of the lottery promotes the killing of an innocent individual each time the lottery is conducted. Throughout history as well as currently, there have continuously been multiple acts of kindness...

Similarities Of Themes In Americanah And Lost Continent

4 Pages 1898 Words
Both Americanah and The lost continent are novels where the main protagonists travel to America and tell anecdotes of their separate experiences while there and the struggles they have at times with their identities. It also shows the very contrasting experiences both have when navigating America due to factors like gender and race. In this essay, I will be analysing...

The Portraits Of The Characters In An Inspector Calls

2 Pages 876 Words
As an Inspector Calls was written after World War Two, most men went away to fight during the war, so many jobs that were traditionally performed by men, had to be filled in by women. This switch in roles enabled everyone to see that women were equally as capable as men. It helped to change the existing perceptions about what...

Female oppression and gender in Plath and Duffy

6 Pages 2558 Words
Modern poets have pushed past societal norms, and have given themselves the platform to conquer and challenge topics and issues in regards to racism, class division and sexuality. Two poets who have interrogated traditional concepts of gender, include Sylvia Plath and Carol Ann Duffy. Their questioning of female/male relationships, and the misogyny involved challenges society’s patriarch structure, and showcase the...

Imbalance Of Responsibility In An Inspector Calls

1 Page 431 Words
Priestley presents an imbalance of responsibility within the Birling family between the two generations , with the older generation (Mr and Mrs Birling) showing a lack of responsibility and empathy towards Eva smith’s death whereas the younger generation (Sheila and Eric) hold a majority of the responsibility showing maturity and understanding which the older generation should hold ,however, they evidently...

Shakespeare's Presentation Of Macbeth’s Doubt And Guilt

2 Pages 961 Words
In Shakespeare’s didactic play the themes of ‘doubt’ and ‘guilt’ play a central role in the presentation of the tragic hero: Macbeth. Macbeth has to make many decisions throughout the play that revolve around his guilty conscience.Whether it be him doubting himself about whether to kill Duncan or him feeling guilty and regretful after his act of regicide. However, Macbeth’s...

The Role And Theme Of Past In The Glass Menagerie And Never Let Me Go

4 Pages 1988 Words
Both Ishiguro and Williams explore many aspects of the past, including how it defines and contours their characters’ identities. Characters like Amanda and Kathy dwell on their past to bring them comfort and an escape from the depressing reality of their situation. ‘Never Let Me Go,’ Ishiguro portrays the past to be a memory that Kathy desires to cling on...

Shame In Hardy's Tess Of The d’Urbervilles And Death Of A Salesman

3 Pages 1275 Words
Shame is dependent on the expectation of the self, and society, with tragedy lying in the character’s ability to never accomplish their desires. Tess in Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Willy in Miller’s Death of a Salesman can never transcend their shame, not because a prejudiced society limits them, but because they internalise such prejudice that confines them to...

How Does Shakespeare Present Evil In Macbeth?

5 Pages 2396 Words
Introduction to the Theme of Evil in 'Macbeth The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare who was famous in the 17th century for his poems and plays during the Jacobean period. He wrote the play for James I who later became a patron to his theatre. The play was set in Scotland to appeal to the King at the...

Traumatic Memories in Carol Ann Duffy's Works

3 Pages 1333 Words
Both the ‘Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team’ and ‘Stafford Afternoons’ written by Carol Ann Duffy explore their respective characters’ past written in said characters’ perspectives. In the Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team, Duffy impersonates someone who’s life peaked in the past which makes him insecure of his current situation and longs to...

The Importance Of Tricks And Disguises In Twelfth Night

1 Page 649 Words
‘Twelfth Night’ or ‘What You Will’ is a Shakespearean play that includes many comedic conventions like disguise, trickery and love interests. It is these conventions that make modern audiences enjoy and laugh at ‘Twelfth Night’, contrary to Sir Richard Eyre’s comment, 'It's true that a lot of Shakespeare's jokes aren't very good, because they're topical, you know. Comedy dates very,...

A Character Analysis Of Atticus Finch

2 Pages 904 Words
In Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to an admirable father figure within the first chapter. Atticus Finch, a single father of two, lives in rural 1930s America working as a lawyer and state legislator. Being older than most parents in Maycomb, his children perceive him as not doing anything of particular interest;...

The Influence Of Social Classes On Jane Austen’s Persuasion

3 Pages 1585 Words
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of good fortune, must be in want of a wife” (Austen). In the society of Austen’s time, marriage was one of the most common ways to increase one’s social status. Social status was based on one’s family background, reputation and wealth. Marriage was very crucial for women, for...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Themes Essay: Honor and Religion

3 Pages 1499 Words
Principles are an imperative component of any community. They mould the identity of a culture and help to shape the identity of each individual in that society. Sometimes these deeply ingrained values have a great amount of power. Gabriel García Márquez shows the power of the value of honor in his book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In García Márquez’s...

Perceptions Of Satire In Gulliver's Travels

3 Pages 1486 Words
Satire speaks differently Gulliver’s travels is a story discusses the sociable cases and humanity by the satire of the situations and events. The story has been written in 1726 in United Kingdom by one of the greatest British writers and satires called Jonathan Swift. The satires used the satire to discuss many issues in England this times by some different...

William Faulkner Biography And Analysis Of Barn Burning And Dry September

5 Pages 2112 Words
About author and his early life Americans have given the world great people among every field of life. If we look at the history of America we see that there are great novel writers, story writers, poets, actors, sportsmen or politicians. One of these great men was William Faulkner. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on American soil on 25th September;...
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