English Literature Essays

Is Macbeth A Tragic Hero?
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Introduction: Tragedies originated in ancient Greece where their main purpose was to promote health of the community through purging of emotions such as fear (Aristotle). However, audiences of today watch tragedies...

Beowulf And The Dragon
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Introduction: I’d like to discuss in this paper the poem Beowulf and pay attention on dragon which he fights with. Without any doubt we can say that Beowulf was the greatest poem in Old English literature. It...

Civilized To Primitive: Lord Of The Flies
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Introduction: The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a novel addressing the idea of man releasing their inner beasts. The novel has many events which characterize how evil is inherited in every man. In...

How Death Is Presented In Poetry
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Introduction: Death is such a fundamental and powerful part of our society that it has understandably been a predominant influence in thousands of years of poetry. Thus for my English literature poetry coursework, ...

Orphanage As Key Symbol In Ghosts
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Introduction: ‘Symbolism’ is an effective figure of speech used in plays to convey more than a single meaning or a theme. It is often used by various dramatists in their works not only to put across the...

The Development Of Characterisation From Everyman
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Introduction: Everyman is a medieval morality play believed to be written ‘late in the fifteenth century’ (Worthen 2004: 236), while Six Characters in Search of an Author was written in 1920. The vast ...

Alternative Identities In The Great Gatsby
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Introduction: James Gatz in The Great Gatsby and Almásy in The English Patient are similar in that they both created alternate identities for the denial of their ethnicity, the pursuit of love, and to remain in th...

A Comparison Of A Certain Lady
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Introduction: The portrayal of women in literature has varied greatly as history has progressed. In the Jazz Age, women were seen as breaking free from being just a housewife and the shadow of a man. The flapper w...

The War Of The Roses In England
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Introduction: The War of the Roses was a series of conflicts fought between the House of York and the House of Lancaster. The conflict was fought between 1455- 1485. The conflict was ended with the rise of Henry ...

What Does Color Represent?
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Introduction: At the heart of every prism lies a spectrum, a sort of mini rainbow.Passing through the prism, the sun rays reveal the order of the seven original colors that together, make up white light. Color is a...

Deconstruction Of Michael Jackson's Earth Song
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Introduction: How did you feel after listening to it? Maybe it angered you, saddened you or brought you grief. Whichever emotion it may have evoked, it must have impacted you in some way. Maybe it inspired you to m...

The Lord Of The Flies Book Review
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Introduction: Lord of the Flies is a historical, fictional novel which was written in 1954 by Nobel Prize award-winning British author William Golding. It is an allegorical novel which was inspired and influenced b...

The Masque Of The Red Death
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Introduction: “The Masque of the Red Death” is a remarkable and bloodcurdling story written by Edger Allan Poe, who is very crafty in the gothic stories by adding the gloomy, mysterious, death- related ...

Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare
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Introduction: Romeo Juliet Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story based on two noble households in the city of Verona. These two houses have an ancient grudge between them which leads t...

Analyzing James Baldwin Novel, Sonny Blues
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Introduction: James Baldwins story ‘Sonnys Blues’ is a about the elements of strained and forgotten relationship between two brothers who have chosen to segregate alternative paths for a living. Among t...

The Story Of Jeanette Winterson Fairytales
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Introduction: In the book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit; Jeanette Winterson constantly makes use of fairytales in her literary work. Winterson strategically uses these fairytales to get her points across. She use...

The Edgar Allan Poe Story Of Isolation
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Introduction: When someone close dies, it can be very devastating to the emotional state of a person. But how each person deals with death is different. Some use it as an excuse when things go bad or their life tak...

The Cenci, a tragedy by Percy Bysshe
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Introduction: The vertex of Percy Shelley’s drama was a tragedy “Cenci” (1819), based on the Italian material. Shelley saw the tragedy as the most important dramatic genre, as in the drama the her...

The Human Journey In The Kite Runner
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Introduction: A journey is an expedition from one place to another. We all begin at the starting line setting off into the horizon in search of the finish line. What however, awaits us at the finish line? To some t...

The Strong Emotions In The Poem 'War Photographer'
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Introduction: In War Photographer, Carol Ann Duffy discusses the death caused by wars. She writes with strong emotions to convince the reader how horrific a war can be and can lead to endless misery. And through th...

The Theme Of Illusion And Realism
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Introduction: The Cherry Orchard and Ghosts both have a mutual factor, the theme of illusion and realism. Even though this is common in both the plays, the playwrights treat them very differently. Both Ghosts and T...

An Inspector Calls, Character Analysis
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Introduction: 1912 was the beginning of the end for many people; unbeknown to the general public the First World War would dominate the lives of all. The Titanic would set sail, but soon come to an icy end, the Wal...

The Kite Runner: Friendship And Survival
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Introduction: Friendship is the state of being a friend; association as friends. It is a relationship between two or more individuals that share a mutual bond of trust and liking as well as commitment and personal ...

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
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Introduction: J. K. Rowling’s monumental, spellbinding epic, 10 years in the making, is deeply rooted in traditional literature and Hollywood sagas – from the Greek myths to Dickens and Tolkien to ̶...

Poem Analysis: A Red Red Rose
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Introduction: Symbolism is used to lighten the overall mood of the poem and aids in explaining the author’s love by portraying love as a melody in tune rather than explaining directly the affection between th...