English Literature Essays

Nathaniel Hawthorne Symbolism
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jun 2017
Introduction: The Mastery of Symbolism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the most influential American Romantic authors of the nineteenth century, was born Nathaniel Hathorne on July ...

Midaq Alley, Naguib Mahfouz | Character Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jun 2017
Introduction: Midaq Alley, a novel written by Mahfouz, tells us the story of different characters living in a poor alley in Egypt during World War II, a time of change for Egypt when under British rule. The reader ...

Everyday Use, Alice Walker | Character Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: In the short story “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker crafts the character of the three main characters in a clever way. This was very important as it is the three characters, Dee, Maggie and Ma...

A Tale Of A Tub Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: Swift criticizes by employing the literary device called satire in which the author exposes folly or absurdity in the behavior of an authority or society. His works are skeptical and sarcastic as well...

The Playboy of the Western World Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: J.M. Synge’s highly controversial play The Playboy of the Western World exposed the middle-class Dublin audience to a different portrayal of Irish countryside life as opposed to the traditional ...

Battle Royal Ralph Ellison Analysis Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: Rope-a-dope is a precarious boxing strategy first introduced by Muhammad Ali against George Foreman in the Heavyweight Championship match held on October 30, 1974, in Kinsasha, Zaire. The match is be...

Jekyll and Hyde: Drug Addiction
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: The first stage of Dr. Henry Jekyll’s addiction is In Robert Louis Stevenson’s nineteenth century novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, addiction is a very important undertone. Stevenson writes ...

Types of African Feminism
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: The primary reason for the difference in the African feminism and Western feminism is the fact that it has developed in a different cultural context. In today’s ever changing world, African wome...

A Doll's House: Appearance vs Reality
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: Choosing to live your life independently or dependently is a life changing moment: it comes without warning, and can turn your whole life upside down. Either way, nothing will ever be the same. The bo...

The Passionate Shepherd To His Love Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: The passionate shepherd to his love is a poem written by Christopher Marlowe of love promises from a shepherd to his potential lover set in a pastoral community. The shepherd is trying to convince a m...

Ernest Hemingway's Indian Camp - Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: The Indian camp is generally recognized as one of Hemingway’s best and most interesting short stories. It primarily focuses on the relationship between father and son, and on its attendant rites...

David Copperfield Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: Introduction to the background, Charles Dickens and his work- David Copperfield Charles Dickens, the most popular writer of the Victorian age, was born near Portsmouth, England, in 1812 and he died in...

To Kill A Mockingbird: Historical Accuracy
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is based off the novel written by Harper Lee of the same title, telling the story of a young girl – Jean Louis Finch and her brother Jem growing up in Alabama during the Gr...

Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald - Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” documents the life of Dexter Green, “a young man from a modest background who strives to be a part of the exclusive world inhabitated by th...

Death of a Salesman Symbolism
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: Arthur Miller is a well renowned playwright who can control the emotions of the readers in the way they want to feel. His play the Death Of a Salesman, he begins with symbols and ends with symbols, wh...

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: How the Grinch stole Christmas is the rhymed story, beautifully illustrated by Dr. Seuss. This rhyming story not only sounds pleasant while listening, but it also gives a good lesson to all of the rea...

The House of the Baskervilles - Gothic Elements
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: The setting in a novel is important because it helps to create a sense of atmosphere. The atmosphere in “The Hound of the Baskervilles” conforms to the conventions of a detective story whi...

The Road Not Taken
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: The poem ‘The Road not taken’ was written by celebrated American poet Robert Frost. In this poem Robert Frost talks about the choices that a person faces in the journey of life, this poem ...

Paralysis in Dubliners
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: Joyce in his letter to Grant Richards said, I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis. The first thing that one has to engage with is, why Joyce felt that Dub...

Six Characters In Search Of An Author - Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Jun 2017
Introduction: Father explains that as their author unjustly denied them stage-life and its immortality, they bring their drama to the company. The seductive Step-Daughter begins its elaboration: after what took pla...

The Monkeys Paw, WW Jacobs
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: he Monkey's Paw was written by W.W. Jacobs in 1902 and was published in his collection of short stories called The Lady of the Barge. The Monkey's Paw is......

To Kill A Mockingbird Themes
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: One of Harper Lee’s strongest themes throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is certain characters being judged by their external appearance rather than who they really are. This false judgem...

Greek Theatre: The Contribution and the Effect
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: The ancient Greeks are famous for their many contributions to the world. Among these contributions is one that has changed culture and the arts permanently. This contribution is theatre. Greek theat...

Love in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2017
Introduction: Introduction In his poem, ‘Scorn not the Sonnet’ (Poetical Works, 1827), Wordsworth famously said that the sonnets were the ‘key’ with which ‘Shakespeare unlocked his hea...

Marie Curie Essay | An introduction to her accomplishments
Example essay. Last modified: 31st May 2017
Introduction: Marie Salomea Sklodowska-Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland (Borzendowski 2009, 1890). Of all the notable scientists in history, she is perhaps the strongest representation of a woma...