English Literature Essays

Control and Feminism in The Yellow Wallpaper
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Introduction: The message in “The Yellow Wallpaper” demonstrates how Gilman is treated by her husband. Being able to have Gilman shed her life “experience with mental illness” (248) helps generate an i...

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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Introduction: This writer’s words were enchanted by darkness and got a thrill by the thought of death. Edgar Allan Poe was famous for his dark and savage side of life. Poe lived a secluded and isolated life,...

Importance of Minor Characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Introduction: Minor characters in stories provide a very important role in many works of literature. In tragedies, these characters are almost always used for the sole purpose to alleviate the tension through ...

Government Control in 1984
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Introduction: Can outside forces control and change human nature? Today, theories of technological manipulation and unregulated government surveillance are accepted widely by the mainstream. Many believe the g...

Themes in Lord of the Flies
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Introduction: Lord of the Flies written by William Golding provides the readers with significant insight into the modern world, as the continuous power struggle is a current issue in numerous platforms of our ...

Theme of Parent-Child Tensions in Frankenstein
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Introduction:  The novel Frankenstein is referenced heavily on the author’s, Mary Shelley’s, own family relationships. Mary Shelley’s troubled family became translated into her writing. The resultin...

Who is the Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
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Introduction: Shelley’s True Monster  Morally ambiguous characters, who are neither purely good nor evil, often lie at the heart of many novels allowing for the misinterpretation of those chara...

Stereotypical Expectations in Wilkie Collins' Basil
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Introduction: The selected extract from Wilkie Collins’s novel Basil portrays traditional gender stereotypes and expectations, i.e. ‘generalised view[s] or preconception[s] about attributes, or characteris...

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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Introduction: Do not go gentle into the Good Night Every person on Earth will die eventually and they all know that. How one views death, however, varies with each individual. Some people, wh...

Ferdinand's Relationships in The Tempest
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Hamlet's Descent into Madness
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Introduction: Descent Into Madness  Insanity. There are a diverse range of thoughts that just flooded one’s mind when they read that word. This word can have a different meaning to each individ...

Use of Dramatic Techniques in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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Introduction: Analyse the use of no fewer than three dramatic techniques in the depiction of human desire in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Throughout the Renaissance period, playwright Willi...

Analysis of Shakespear's Sonnets
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Introduction: William Shakespeare is very well known around the world for being one of the best playwrights in the English literature and in the whole globe. Furthermore, he is also considered very important f...

Masculinity in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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Introduction: “The murder of Roger Ackroyd consciously problematizes the detective as a masculine hero” (Susan Rowland).   The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a novel written by Agatha Ch...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Introduction: Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen published in 1811 and focuses on telling a story of two young girls, Elinor and Marianne, Dashwood sisters, as they come of age. It is an incredibl...

Expression of Emotions in Sylvia Plath’s Final Works
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Introduction: Pique “Sylvia Plath’s final work Daddy and other Poems also styled Ariel, was done a disservice in its original exclusion of “The Rabbit Catcher,” “The Other,” and “The Cou...

The Picture of Dorian Gray: Wilde and Artistic Identity
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Introduction: First published in July 1890, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was featured in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine[1]– an American periodical which provided writers, more well-established than Wild...

Minority Treatment in Harry Potter
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Introduction: Samantha woke up in a cold sweat the morning of her first day of high school, she was horrified. Her best friend, Alexis, had slept over the night before. “What’s wrong?” Alexis groaned, ha...

Enchanted Objects in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Milton’s Comus
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Introduction: “charm’d drinkes and amorous potions” Romeo and Juliet and Comus make ubiquitous reference to potions, and inherently magical objects, both imprisoning, soporific, poisonous, and c...

Analysis of Kate Clanchy’s ‘Recognition’
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Introduction: Recognition is a poem written by the contemporary poet Kate Clanchy, who is a Scottish teacher and poet, and who has been awarded with several prizes, among them; the Scottish Arts Council Book A...

Gender and Subordination: Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew
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Introduction: Renowned Gender theorist Judith Butler argues that most people tend to ‘[act] in some way and that [this] is crucial to the gender [they] [have].’[1] In other words, Butler claims that both m...

The Influence of Edgar Allen Poe
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Introduction: Introduction: Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to business actors King Poe, Jr and Elizabeth Poe in Boston, MA. He became an orphan at the age of three after his dad des...

Disguise and Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest and The School for Scandal
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Introduction: The Role of Disguise Introduction Disguise refers to anything changing or concealing the appearance of a person or thing including the physical appearance to hide secret identit...

The Representation of the NHS in The Last Asylum and Blue/Orange
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Introduction: The National Health Service, or NHS, was established on the 5th of July, 1948. England’s division of the NHS provides healthcare to all residents of England. Most services are “free at the po...

Clothing and Gender Roles in Angela Carter’s Story The Bloody Chamber
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Introduction: The role of clothing as confirming, revising, or questioning gender roles in Angela Carter’s story   The Bloody Chamber The definitions of gender are becoming more and more v...