English Literature Essays

Shakespeare's Women: The Weaker Vessel or Stronger Sex? | English Literature
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Introduction:  The subject of gender relationships within the work of Shakespeare became a matter of lively debate during the last quarter of the twentieth century and continues to be an area that attracts much sc...

Homoeroticism In The Twelfth Night Play English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The way in which cross dressing and homoeroticism are presented in Shakespearian plays reveals details about the historical context in which these plays were written and performed. By discussing fluid...

A true gentleman in great expectations
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Introduction: The novel, Great Expectations, deals with the concepts of a ‘true gentleman’; where the Victorian idea, which is based upon birth, wealth, social status and apparel, contrasts to Dickens&#...

John Steinbecks Short Story The Chrysanthemums English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Elisa Allen is a lonely woman who enjoys growing and nourishing her chrysanthemums. Since her husband is always working the cattle in their farm, she never has enough attention or any kind of affecti...

Analysis Of Homers Odyssey English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Homers’ Odyssey first introduces this hero with the words “….a boy, daydreaming” (1. 139-142) and states him as “But clear-headed…” (3.24-25) later on as the ...

The Impacts Cinderella Has On Young Children English Literature Essay
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Introduction: For as long as I can remember, it has always been my dream to get married, become a mother, and live happily ever after just like my favorite Disney character, Cinderella. My mother would read me thi...

The Reflections Of Caribbean Poetry English Literature Essay
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Introduction: As a collective group, the Caribbean people celebrate an eclectic melding of the differences inherent in our ancestry with an appreciation of the influences wrought upon us by the history of the islan...

Cathedral Short Story Written By Raymond Carver English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Cathedral is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story unfolds as a first person narrative of a main character named Bub. The story is short and slow paced. . In fact, the whole conversations...

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
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Introduction: The fall of mankind and the expulsion from the garden of Eden” is one of many depictions on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel was originally commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV an...

Agatha Christie And Then There Were None English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Agatha Christie was born on September 15th, 1890 in Torquay, England. Her name at birth was Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, and her parents were Clarissa Boehmer of Belfast, Ireland and Frederick Miller,...

Go Tell It On The Mountain Analysis English Literature Essay
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Introduction: This novel is not organized into chapters like most novels. It is organized into different sections named “Part One: The Seventh Day”, “Part Two: The Prayers of the Saints,” an...

Looking At My Papas Waltz English Literature Essay
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Introduction: “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke is an interesting poem that begins with complexity. Theodore Roethke implicates the aspects of his childhood experience in this poem. This poem ...

Descriptive Essay For An Average Day English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Rise and shine at 5:30am, breakfast on the go, then out into the brisk cool morning air hoping for the excitement every hunter thrives for. As I uncover my sleeping body my blood starts to flow and I ...

Fiction Was Used Form Of Social Control English Literature Essay
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Introduction: For this option, you might want to explore nineteenth-century ideological viewpoints of concepts such as family, gender, class and religion. It would be valuable to include some brief discussion of ot...

Christopher Marlowes Faustus The Tragic Genre English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Dr Faustus was written by Christopher Marlowe and was first published in 1604. Marlowe was known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death in 1593. As with other wr...

Crc Or Hartland Ego Strengthening Script English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Analyse either the CRC or Hartland Ego-Strengthening script to explain why they are effective if indeed you believe they are. How might you improve them. The script “Calmness, Relaxation = Confi...

Macbeth Is His Own Destruction English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The Shakespearean play, “Macbeth”, is set in the 11th century in Scotland and therefore before the “United Kingdom”. I believe that the statement “Macbeth alone is the ar...

Hills Like White Elephants English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” by Ernest Hemingway, is about a young couple and the polemic issue of abortion. However, since the word “abortion is found nowhere is th...

Nurse And Friars Role In Rome Juliets Deaths English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two young “star-crossed lovers” whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. The nurse and f...

Culture And Heritage Alice Walkers Everyday Use English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Alice Walker conveys her passionate feelings about preserving and valuing the African-American culture and heritage. In her short story, “Everyday Use,” Walker points out and expresses the...

Study on death of a salesman
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Introduction: In Act 2 scene 7 of the play Death of a Salesman, the audience is given insight into Happy’s character and the theme Truth, Deception and lies is portrayed. The scene begins with Happy conversin...

Presentation Of Iago In Othello English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The plot of the play ‘Othello’ is that the Moorish soldier Othello and a young Venetian lady Desdemona secretly marry. Her father isn’t happy by this secret ceremony and warns Othell...

George Bernard Shaws Play Pygmalion English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Of course, Shaw’s woman protagonist, Eliza Doolittle is not a statue, but an unfortunate, illiterate flower girl with a cockney accent that is preventing her from achieving a better position in ...

A Wedding Of Symbolism English Literature Essay
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Introduction: The play that will be investigated in this International Baccalaureate Works In Translation assignment will be Blood Wedding, by the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. Lorca is an individualist, his in...

The Supernatural In Thomas Malorys Morte Darthur English Literature Essay
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Introduction: Sir Thomas Malory have spent a lot of time in prison and thus had the opportunity to investigate the mythical figure of King Arthur. As a source for his research he used the enormous cycle of prose ro...