English Literature Essays

The Multicultural Self as the Palimpsest of Native & Foreign Identities in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
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Introduction: The tussle over the consciousness and a sense of self as it manifests through native and foreign culture is nowhere more apparent than in the diasporic populations. As Zadie Smith herself notes i...

Comparison of Wealth and Class in Pride and Prejudice
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Introduction: Restrictions of the Wealthy  Pride and Prejudice is a romantic satire written by Jane Austen. Published in 1813, it explores the life of the Bennet family and their five daughters. ...

Challenging the Patriachy in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Introduction: “Distrust it, sir; it is not a true angel”: How Charlotte Bronte’s heroine, Jane Eyre, challenges the patriarchal depiction of women in nineteenth-century literature. In t...

Virtue and Virginity: “Honesty” in Shakespeare’s Othello
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Introduction: Shakespeare’s Othello is about a man threatened by the relationship he has with his wife. The only means by which Othello can quell his insecurity is through violence. This paper traces Shakesp...

Literature and the UK's National Identity
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Introduction: To what extent do any TWO of the set works studied on A334 contribute to, or challenge, a developing sense of national identity? The United Kingdom’s national identity has been a chang...

Doctor Faustus and his Eternal Damnation
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Introduction: Dr. Faustus is the Christian story that deals with these topics in the heart of religion’s understanding of the world. Firstly, there is this purpose of sin, which religion defines as acts cont...

Social Class in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Introduction: Class was something you are born into during the Victorian era, which made people think they were in position to look down on others from different classes. Jane Eyre is a novel that explores a s...

How Does Writing about Music Exemplify Orwell's Diatribe Against Sloppy Writing?
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Introduction: In his essay “Politics and the English Language”, Orwell (1946) argues that modern English usage is prone to laziness and incompetence; by listing characteristics of bad writing that have bec...

Feminism in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber
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Introduction: Section B, Q. 8: “Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural histor...

Internal Conflict of the Procrastinating Prince in Hamlet
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Introduction:  The nature of drama consists of the weaving of conflict throughout it. Without conflict, a work of dramatic literature suffers from a lack of effective plot development or flow and the inab...

Aestheticism of Dorian Gray
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Introduction: During the 19th century, the critical reception of The Picture of Dorian Gray was not acclaimed to the height that it is today. The book critic of The Irish Times said it was “first publish...

Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado | Analysis
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Introduction: The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe’s work, “The Cask of Amontillado” uses literary devices to create a dramatic and dark work of art full of irony, revenge, pride, and deceit...

Queerness in Shakespeare's Works
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Introduction:  ‘If everyone is queer, then no one is – and while this is exactly the point queer theorists want to make, reducing the term’s pejorative sting by universalizing the meaning of queer ...

Shakespeare - The Tempest
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Introduction: Shakespeare – The Tempest Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ highlights the lack of female independence in the Elizabethan era, the time of which the play was performed. This is th...

The Role of The Fool in King Lear
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Introduction: Playing Dumb, or Playing God: Fool as visionary in King Lear It is ironic that one who is supposed to be foolish turns out to be the greatest source of wisdom, especially for Lear. The ...

Women in the Canterbury Tales
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Introduction: While it is important to remember that women within The Canterbury tales are inherently presented through the male perspective of the author and in certain parts of the work the socio-political ...

Women in Gothic Literature: The Bloody Chamber and Northanger Abbey
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Introduction: The Gothic is a male genre which either excludes women or presents them negatively. Compare and contrast how the writers present women in “The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter and “Northan...

Research Paper of John Fowles
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Problematization of Female Power in Shakespeare's Macbeth
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Introduction:  “The Problematization of Female Power in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” Fundamental to William Shakespeare’s 1606 play, Macbeth, is the exploration of various views of fe...

Metal Cases by Wilfred Owen
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Introduction: Literature essay Word count: 1493 Intro. Mental Cases is a very descriptive example of the true horrors that occurred in the first world war, the author Wilfred Owen w...

Analysis of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Introduction:  Despite their apparent simplicity, Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience are complex poems that reveal profound political, philosophical, and religious perspectives.  ...

Animal Farm & The Russian Revolution
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Introduction: Animal Farm & The Russian Revolution  Throughout human history, there had always been conflicts of interest between separate parties. To separate an individual’s rights a...

Themes in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Introduction: The Heroic Journey  A hero is someone who has a strong sense of justice and acts upon that sense. In The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien uses different elements of the novel to define his...

William Shakespeare: The True Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays
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Introduction: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE TRUE AUTHORSHIP OF THE SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS Throughout history, there have been many famous authors, playwrights, and poets. Some are remembered more strongly th...

Functions of Marriage in Renaissance Drama
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Introduction: Evaluate the Functions of Marriage in Renaissance Drama Marriages throughout Shakespeare’s plays are used to highlight character behaviours give us an indication of whether plays will...