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Nature figures prominently in Hardy’s novel, “Tess of the D’urbervilles”. In so far as the philosophy of the literature Hardy is concerned the role of Nature in “Tess” contributes to a great extent. Nature is closely related also to the social and cosmic visions of Hardy.All the major characters of Hardy are off-spring of Nature. […]

Over eight and a half million men died in World War 1with just under thirty million other casualties. At he start of the war, in 1914, people were excited to fight the Germans and get back before Christmas. The war lasted longer than expected so propaganda was used to try and recruit men. Jessie Pope’s […]

Browning’s “My Last Duchess” draws the reader into a masterfully crafted, multi-faceted, dramatic monologue in which the speaker, the Duke speaks directly to the reader, and used to reveal his mannerisms. Characterisation is revealed via Browning’s vivid and violent imagery coupled with metaphors and enjambment. “Porphyria’s Lover” is another such poem (also by Browning) which […]

Willy Russell, the writer of Our Day Out, drew inspiration from his own tumultuous experiences to create characters like Carol Chandler. Carol, who appears as the first student in the play, wears her school uniform as her Sunday best and carries all of her supplies in a plastic bag. This detail reflects the youth of […]

The play ‘Our Day Out’ is set in Liverpool and on a school trip to Conwy Castle. It is set in the 1970s; children would have been separated into two different schools – grammar school and the comprehensive school. The play is about the progress class, which is a class for children with reading/writing problems. […]

To understand a play fully, we must understand the setting and context in which it is set. To understand Hamlet fully, we must analyse its contextual setting through language, events and its characters. The first instance through which we begin our understanding of the social situation in Denmark is through thee first scene of Act […]

As a part of my English lessons, I have been doing a lot of work on pre-1914 (in 1914, World War I began, causing a big change in literature) poetry. There were three poems I have been focusing on, each written by a different author: firstly, the poem My Last Duchess, written in 1842 by […]

There are many ways in which Hardy describes his character Tess, but the theme of purity often emerges within the subtext. He does this by using Tess’ physical features, language, mannerism, social interaction and he contrasts her to the other characters in the novel. The meaning of pure can be interpreted in many ways. One […]

When we read the five poems we gather that the poems all have different aspects of the theme of relationships. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Laboratory by Ancien Ri?? gime, The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy, Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare, Remember by Christina Rossetti, The Little Boy Lost and The Little […]

Willy Russell was born in 1937 in Winston, Lancashire. He grew up in Knowsley’s, a village just outside Liverpool. He described his school, Woodfall secondary as “chaotic, badly run. ” He also attended Rainford Secondary which he left at the age of 15 with no formal qualifications. After school, he worked at a lady hairdresser […]

Both William Blake’s ‘London’ from approximately 1794 and William Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802’ are centered around London, but the two poets hold divergent perspectives on the city. A thorough examination and juxtaposition of these two works reveals the varying employment of techniques in the Shakespearian sonnet ‘London’ and the Italian sonnet […]

There are many themes presented in ‘Goblin Market,’ from the rather trite ideas of don’t succumb to temptation and little girls shouldn’t talk to strange men to the more controversial and indelicate themes of homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. Rossetti presents the themes in an extremely effective, unusual manner […]

Shakespeare’ s masterpiece “Hamlet” is really a complex play, which concerns on many different themes. One of the major themes of “Hamlet” is madness, which is reflected through the protagonist, The Prince of Denmark, Hamlet. His madness is always a question and suspicious throughout the play. It is not answered certainly in the play, but […]

My first point is that they were both murdered. Banquo was stabbed to death by two assassins hired by Macbeth. While Hamlet’s father was poisoned by his brother Claudius. So both of these murders were committed by different methods. Also both these murders were established for greedy purposes. Banquo was murdered because Macbeth thought that […]

Williams Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’- written in the early 17th century – still carries as profound a message in modern times as it did when it was originally written. It tells of a young Danish prince- hamlet- who is struggling to come to terms with his father’s sudden tragic death. The sense of anomie Shakespeare weaves into […]

So exactly why is it that Hamlet is still so popular with our modern day audiences when it was written for the naive audiences of the 17th century? Personally I believe this is because Hamlet deals with many fresh issues including corruption, love and the supernatural, which still appeal to contemporary audiences. These issues are […]

William Shakespeare authored the renowned play “Hamlet” more than four centuries ago. Given its antiquity, its language and humor might prove difficult for contemporary audiences to understand. The playwright uses poetry and blank verse for characters of higher social rank, but prose for those from lower classes. Although there are many film adaptations of “Hamlet”, […]

The play ‘Our Day Out’ written by Willy Russell is about a progress class from the heart of Liverpool that go on a trip to Conway Castle in Wales. Mr Briggs and Carol are involved in the cliff scene. The cliff scene is about Carol sneaking away from the others to the cliff, she is […]

There is no doubt that Hamlet is both a political and personal tragedy but there is room for argument as to which sort of play it primarily is. It is a play based on universal emotions and a play that anybody can relate to. The title of the play in the first printed editions was […]

`Our Day Out` was written by Willy Russell to show people life in the inner city of Liverpool. There are a lot of scenes which create tension, excitement and disappointment in Our Day Out. One humorous part is Les the lollipop man, just after Carol has explained what the purpose of the progress class is, […]

Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ presents us with many apparent elements that are expressed through various mediums. One of the most effective mediums is the use of soliloquies. This journal entry will breakdown the first and last soliloquies delivered by Hamlet and denote there meanings whilst contrasting and comparing them. In regards to the soliloquies it is evident […]

The four seventeenth century “love poems” I will be comparing are “To His Coy Mistress”, “Shall I Compare Thee” and “My Mistress’ Eyes”, along with “The Flea”. All the four poems are based on the subject of “love”. Each poem touches on a different aspect of love although they all have a lot in common. […]