English Literature Essays

Trifles by Susan Glaspell Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jul 2017
Introduction: The play “Trifles” emphasizes the culture-bound notions of gender and sex roles, specifically, that women were confined to the home and that their contributions went unnoticed and were und...

Marriage in African Traditional Society
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: Marriage is an important step in the life of every human on earth. Different cultures have different rituals and beliefs about marriage. Love, economic status, religious beliefs, and social acceptance...

Edgar Allan Poe and Imagery
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some...

My Trip To Egypt
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: It was my grandmother’s 70th Birthday in May this year and my Mum, my sister Sophie and my Mum’s three sisters decided to have a “girly” long weekend in Dorset during the May h...

No Coward Soul Is Mine Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: Emily Bronte’s “No Coward Soul Is Mine” was written in order to reach out and touch faith so to speak. Death, faith, and passion were things that did not run scarce in Emily Bronte&#...

Mowing Robert Frost Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Introduction: “Mowing” is a lyric poem written by Robert Frost in the year 1913. Like many other poets achieve that Frost does not, they talk about their imagination or something that they are wondering...

The Real White Man's Burden - Irony and Symbolism
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jul 2017
Introduction: I aim to evaluate the use of irony and symbol in the poems “The White Man’s Burden” and the “Real White Man’s Burden” to see how effective both writers were in usin...

Ophelia and Gertrude Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jul 2017
Introduction: The classical and world-renowned Shakespearean play Hamlet has two very prominent and important female characters as the main roles, Ophelia and Gertrude. As to a surprise, they are similar in many wa...

What is the Turning Point in Romeo and Juliet?
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jul 2017
Introduction: In this essay I am going to analyse act 3 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet to work out why it is the turning point of the play. I will analyse the characters; historical context; the structure of the play;...

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller - Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible was involved in communist activities during the Cold War in the United States which, considering the historical context brought him to court. This demonizatio...

Irony in Rip Van Winkle
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Washington Irving used so much irony in his short story Rip Van Winkle. The title character is a youthful married Dutch American who has a kind and generous nature. The main character is located in Ca...

The Wife of Bath Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Chaucer is generally considered as the ‘father of English poetry’; looking specifically at ‘The Canterbury Tales’ we can see that Chaucer attempted to portray a depiction of so...

Picturebook Analysis Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Picturebooks are often labelled as ‘easy’ books with simple illustrations, large fonts, few words, and produced exclusively for children. Indeed, the Randolph Caldecott Medal committee def...

Why is Hamlett Timeless?
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is exemplary of the universal nature, which, despite the passage of time still holds its textual integrity. As ‘Hamlet’ is not limited by contex...

Identity Crisis in Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: ABSTRACT: Immigrants have envisioned tales that exhibit experiences of independent and emerging countries. Cultures have taken up new form in the contemporary times, where the issues of Diaspora, glob...

Jane Eyre Book Report
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: The main character of the book is Jane Eyre (round character). The book follows her through her troubled childhood and life as a young woman. She is a gentle and intelligent girl, but she has no confi...

The Glass Menagerie Title Meaning
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: Even though the family’s relationship towards one another in “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams is both dysfunctional, and questionable you begin to see a deeper meaning to ...

Gold Marilyn Monroe Andy Warhol
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jul 2017
Introduction: The colors used are outstanding whereby he used gold color to form the background and surrounds of the face. I love the way Warhol used the colors to give and outstanding piece of art. The face is the...

Young Goodman Brown Symbolism Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2017
Introduction: Young Goodman Brown is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Written in 1835, the story deals with a late night meeting between a man and the Devil. On the surface this is all the story is, but if one...

I Have A Dream Speech
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2017
Introduction: Martin Luther King astounded America with his historic ‘I have a dream’ speech. His demand for racial justice and a unified society became mantra for the black community and is as known to...

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2017
Introduction: The theme of finding one s own personal voice is the central aim of Kingston in her memoir The Woman Warrior. She makes various references to the physical and emotional struggle of this aim throughout...

Turn of the Screw Unreliable Narrator
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2017
Introduction: There is a recurring theme of unreliability of perception. The governess is shown as an unreliable narrator preventing us from seeing more than just her......

The Yellow Wallpaper - Feminist Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jul 2017
Introduction: One of the major goals of feminist literature is to determine what kind of voice women have or do not have in a world, dominated by men. Women are seen as not as important as men in humanity, and lang...

Pride And Prejudice Analysis of Themes
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jul 2017
Introduction: “An artist cannot do anything slovenly”, once uttered Jane Austen in articulating her perception of art and literature. Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen, is undeniably a masterp...

Categorising Hamlet as a Tragedy
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Jul 2017
Introduction: Shakespearean scholar A.C. Bradley states that ‘tragedy concerns itself with one person, the hero’. The second key aspect of tragedy is the ‘death of a hero’. As Bradley points...