English Literature Essays

Anne Tyler Teenage Wasteland
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: This short story by Anne Tyler is about the trials and tribulations of a mother and son relationship. Donny is a seemingly normal teenage boy who is just going through a rough patch. After being calle...

Examples of Displacement in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: Place and displacement are always featured in post-colonial writings, whether it’s Derek Walcott’s poem ‘A far cry from Africa’ or powerful novels for example ‘Heart of D...

Friday Night Lights: Movie vs Book
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: High School Football. “Those lights become an addiction if you live in a place like Odessa, the Friday Night fix.” (Bissinger,14) Racism, controversy, and pride. Permian High School in the...

Themes of Forgiveness in Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: Themes Of Forgiveness In Novels Forgiveness. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is ‘an action or a process of forgiving or being forgiven’. On the other hand, Bråkenhielm...

The Third And Final Continent Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jun 2017
Introduction: The character I have chosen for analysis from Jhumpa Lahiri short story, “The Third and Final Continent,” is the narrator, a very dynamic character who adapts to the traditions and lifesty...

Oroonoko Novel by Aphra Behn | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jun 2017
Introduction: In the theater things are always seen from somewhere. Here we have the geometrical foundation of representation: a fetishist subject is required to cut out the tableau. Aphra Behn, born on July 10, 1...

Desert Flower by Cathleen Miller and Waris Dirie
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Jun 2017
Introduction: Last year, I watched the adapted movie of the book, “Desert Flower” in the cinema. That movie has fascinated, motivated and likewise evoke interest in me. In my opinion it is incredible ho...

Meaning of Jane Eyre as a Whole
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: The whole of the work is a critique of Victorian Englands social hierarchy and inequality for women. Jane struggles against social class and gender inequality, both of which she considers great injust...

Muhammad Haji Salleh Poetry Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: Wikipedia defined that self-identity is the mental and conceptual understanding and persistent regard that sentient beings hold for their own existence. In other words, it is the sum total of a being&...

The Motorcycle Diaries | An Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: During these novels it can be seen how important is the background in there, whether historical background and social one were deeply connected in the way the plot was developed, creating contrast and...

Glory Road Film Summary and Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: He had always wanted to coach division one basketball but he encountered some problems early on after taking the job. Being a poor university, Texas Western could not afford a lot of money to recruit ...

Wuthering Heights - A Thematic Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: Revenge is one of the prominent and stronger issues in the novel Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte has discussed the cruel and wicked nature of human beings. Novel was set in the harsh, rough and isolat...

Priestley's Paradox Communication
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: Communication is an essential part of everyday life. There are many things which have effect on communication, technology having a very large effect. Through the increase of communication technology, ...

Feminism in Indian English Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jun 2017
Introduction: First, the phase of imitation is prolonged and the dominant tradition and the international roles have affected the social roles. Secondly, the phase of protest was established against the standards v...

The Bait, John Donne Analysis |The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Marlowe Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2017
Introduction: In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and “The Bait” the reader finds two contrasting images of the world. Marlowe paints the world as a utopian society withought any worrie...

Analysis of the Psalm of Life Poem
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2017
Introduction: This poem dramatizes the conflict between the truth of life lived in the moment and the neglect of the soul when a person focuses on things beyond his control: namely the past and the future. There a...

Waiting For Godot Essay | Analysis of Waiting for Godot
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2017
Introduction: It is tempting to view Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ as a play of nothingness, with no value or meaning but that of two men waiting for something or someone to arrive. However...

The Man of the Crowd | Literary Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: “Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone,” declares the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Man of the Crowd.” Surrounded by a city full of people, the narrato...

A Modest Proposal | An Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: Introduction: One of the "Tory writers," "a talented satirist" (Abjadian 87), Jonathan Swift was born on November 30, 1667, in Dublin, Ireland. His father-an Englishman who had moved to Ireland-die...

Presentation of War in Literature | The Man He Killed and Dulce Er Decorum Est
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and “Dulce et Decorum est”, by Wilfred Owen explore the theme of war, they both take similar views on life during and after the...

Gender Roles in Shakespeare Plays
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: To answer this question I will refer mainly to As You Like It and Twelfth Night. As well as the texts of the two plays I will also refer to two stage productions – Filter’s production of T...

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: The scarlet letter “A” has a close interrelation to the novel’s thematic structure which is centered on the three scaffold scenes in chapter 2, chapter 12, and chapter 23. At the fir...

Holes Book Report Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: Louis Sachar was born march 20, 1954 in New York. He is an American author of children’s books. He has written twenty-four books. Louis Sachar is best known for the “Sideways Stories From ...

Literature and Social Change
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: Literature written during the period between 1650 and the mid 1800s encourages us to think for ourselves rather than blindly accept the status quo. Tolstoy, in The Death of Ivan Ilyich reminds us to b...

Realism in English Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: In general, realism can be defined as the aspect of tending to lean towards being factual and practical on matters of life by representing things, actions, or social circumstances in point of fact, wi...