English Literature Essays

A Documentary: Born Into Brothels
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Introduction: Introduction Obtained as the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the film Born into Brothels has another name that is Calcutta’s Red Light Kids. Obviously, the focus of this film is...

Looking At The Poem, Waiting For Icarus
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Introduction: Greek myths are often used to enhance stories or explain phenomenon. Muriel Rukeyser uses one such myth which tells of a Greek hero, Icarus. The myth states that Daedalus, Icarus’ father, was ...

The Genre Of An Inspector Calls
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Introduction: What is the genre of ‘An Inspector Calls’ and how does it fulfil its purpose? How would the audience’s attention be sustained during the performance? ‘An Inspector Calls’...

Feminine Sensibility Of An Immigrant Woman
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Introduction: Sensibility reflects the sense of ability to feel or perceive. It also depicts the refined awareness and appreciation in matters of feeling. The sensibility or sensitiveness illustrates the quality or...

The Prince And The Pauper
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Introduction: Throughout the novel, The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, the author conveys the idea that the clothes make the man as well as addressing problems such as social inequality and religious intolera...

Conflicts Within 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'
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Introduction: Firstly, we have to distinguish which are the major conflicts in it. There are four main problems, each one related with each character. In the first place, we have Tyrone’s stinginess, or as he...

Gender Trifles Women
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Introduction: English Gender Gaps in Trifles The nineteenth century experienced the comeback of a strong female writer Susan Glaspell. Like other female writers of her time, Glaspell struggled and was relucta...

Women In Greek Society | Sophocles Antigone
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Introduction: Male-dominant societies are just as common now as they were back then. Women throughout history have constantly stood in the shadows of men. Three characters from Sophocles’ Antigone will be exa...

The Shooting An Elephant
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Introduction: The narrator, the autobiographical author, at once faces reality the most but also acts as a puppet within the script that is his life. He sees the manipulation of each side of the native people and t...

The Successful Metaphors Of The Plague
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Introduction: When The Plague was first published in 1947, it was evident to most people what Albert Camus had set out to do. For them, the novel was purely an allegory of France during the Second World War, charti...

Beowulf | The Anglo Saxon Epic Poem
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Introduction: History can be found through stories, books, poems and other literary works. Examples of the lifestyles, society, aesthetics, philosophical values, politics and economics can be found and are shown in...

Haunted Houses And Characters In Gothic Fiction
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Introduction: What makes Gothic fiction so frightening, yet appealing to the readers is its ability to shake the reality. A home where one should feel safe becomes a haunted house, a place of great evil and unrest....

Themes Of Good To Evil In Hamlet
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Introduction: Sometimes readers believe that for a character in a plot to destroy evil, he must turn into an evil person, even if he has to pay with his own life. In “Hamlet”, from Shakespeare, Prince H...

Can Women And Men Just Be Friends?
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Introduction: When it comes to answering the question of whether or not men and women can just be friends it depends on whom you are asking. In research this topic comes up as being a very tricky one, you can ask a...

Analysis Of 'To His Coy Mistress'
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Introduction: In ‘To His Coy Mistress’ the speaker carefully constructs a subtle and logical argument as to why his addressee should sexually unite with him. The speaker attempts this proposition throu...

An Analysis Of Sick Boy
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Introduction: Apart from his sexual success he is on the same social level as his friends, his background is working class, his education is rudimental and his intelligence, compared to Mark Renton, on a much lower...

I'm The King Of The Castle | Summary
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Introduction: After his mother’s death Joseph Hooper moved to Warings to care for his dying father. It took quite some time to arrange old Hooper’s affairs. These were left in disarray and Joseph felt u...

Analysis Of 'The Bad Seed' Play
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Introduction: The Bad Seed by Maxwell Anderson is a dramatic play taken place in 1954 in the urban part of New York City. The Penmark’s house is a well furnished and expensive home. With a good size kitchen, ...

Female Restraint Displayed In 'Jane Eyre'
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Introduction: The subject of female restraint is displayed in Jane Eyre both symbolically and physically by society and is important to understand the sequence of events that happen throughout the story. Throughout...

Reflection On 'The Outsiders'
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Introduction: The narrator of the book The Outsiders was Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is a fourteen years old teenage, who has long hair, greenish-gray eyes, and who is part of a gang called the greasers. Ponyboy descri...

Mary Shelley's Sympathy For Frankenstein
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Introduction: Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, ‘Frankenstein’, was first published in 1818. This was at a point in time, throughout the world, there were advanced changes. Towards the end of the 18th ...

Humanity In 'Brave New World'
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Introduction: At first sight, it seems that the perfect happiness, balance, and peace are created in Aldous Huxley’s novel, in Brave New World. The government possess’ absolute power over the world and ...

Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'
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Introduction: Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ is a perfect example of the biting sarcasm and sharp wit that was exercised in the satire of the early eighteenth century. Through his effective ...

Male Insecurity In 'The Sun Also Rises'
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Introduction: The purpose of this presentation is to prove that the male characters in the novel The Sun Also Rises are insecure, in their struggle to be viewed as content and happy with their life. Insecurity is a...

Themes Of Deception In Hamlet
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Introduction: Shakespeares “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” is one of the most famous plays in English playwright. According to many highly distinguished art lovers, this is one of the most profound creation...