Essays On Books

Everyone has different views of life. In our real society, there are people who want to be somebody, and people who just want to be nobody. From the songs of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, we can see how they choose to become somebody or nobody. Walt Whitman in “Song of myself” presents a large […]

In the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Hecate says, “And you all know security is mortal’s chiefest enemy. ”(3. 5. 32-33). Security, is translated into modern English as “overconfidence”, so Hecate is saying that overconfidence is one main downfall that humans face. Although a ten-page, smarter sounding college level definition could probably be found, the […]

With specific reference to two or three works you have read compare the effects of an identified or unidentified narrative voice. The use of both identified and unidentified narrative voices has been an essential feature in most of the poetry I have studied, as it determines the manner in which the content of the poem […]

This story has the power to stimulate profound feelings and an intellectual understanding of life and death. Many students have lived with or visited grandparents or have experienced the pain and grief of their grandparents’ dying. Furthermore, through its treatment of the important events in Granny’s life, the story raises the following questions which will […]

In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book,” the controlling metaphor is the image of a baby being born and cared for. This birth imagery expresses the complex attitude of the speaker by demonstrating that the speaker’s low regard for her own work and her actions are contradictory. The first effect of the birth […]

George Orwell and Aldous Huxley both wrote the own predictions of what the future will be for Americans by writing fiction novels that satirize what the future was going to be. When 1984 arrived and people saw that George Orwells prediction that democracy was still in tact in America and that Huxleys’s prediction tht technology […]

As the archetype of Romanticism, Nathaniel Hawthorne displays the beauty of his artistic school by straying from reason and science and, instead, entertaining emotion and the institution of religion. The Minister’s Black Veil uses the significance of sin, which is objective and invisible which is in turn transformed to the visible reactions of the characters […]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the significance of songs and music in the book ‘The Fellowship of the Ring.’ Songs and music in ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ carry more symbolic weight than in other books.Music and songs are used to convey the character and nature of the Hobbits, the Ringwraiths, elves, […]

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman presents a national bestselling classic account of the creation of the Panama Canal. In ‘The Path Between the Seas’, celebrated historian and author David McCullough delivers an unparalleled representation of the extensive human endeavor that led to the creation of this majestic venture. Winner of the National Book Award […]

“Buy Local, shrink the distance food travels, save the planet. ” Locavore is a diet a person takes up to eat only local food. It consists of a group of people that insist to help the economy and reduce the size of carbon footprint by eating local food within a 100 mile radius. Alex Hallat […]

  Management has established a code of conduct that includes rules regarding conflicts of interest for purchasing agents. Category: Assertion: Pervasive Waterfront has established a disclosure committee to review the selection of new accounting policies. Category: 4. 6, Assertion: DAO Accuracy and Valuation, DAO Classification and Understandability. c. Any computer program revision must be approved […]

A satire on the present abuses of society. Does Byron have a serious point to make? What criticisms of human nature and society are evident in Canto 1?Don Juan is an elongated, digressive satiric poem by Lord Byron, based on the myth of Don Juan which Byron reverses representing Juan not as a womaniser but […]

Romantic poetry expresses the self – originating and emotional poetry of the Romantic period. In William Blake’s life, he had an ever so mind changing an occurrence. After William Blake became married, he had an altercation with a man, John Schofield. After Schofield pressed charges and Blake was acquitted, Blake carried the burden of the […]

As a conclusion to the poem v by Tony Harrison, the passage from ‘the days images recede to first a glow… ‘ onwards, is effective as it relates and concludes on many of the concerns brought forth within the poem, using language, imagery and verse form to achieve this.Tony Harrison’s poem v. is an elegy […]

Ang Lee’s version of Sense and Sensibility and Rodney Bennett’s TV series adaptation of Sense and Sensibility both capture the spirit of Jane Austen’s novel; however, there are discrepancies which enhance and detract from each adaptation. Differences arise due to variations in the directors’ nationalities and intended audience, events and characters.The American version is much […]

Film Presentation – How significant is the use of supernatural in modern horror?RUN AUDIO: background music from ‘The Ring’ playing for 1 minute 30 seconds. Fading outVISUAL: DVD cover of The Ring, The Others and The Sixth Sense show on screen for first section of presentation.SPEAKER: My aim throughout this presentation is to discover whether […]

Kaye Gibbons was born in Nash County, North Carolina in 1960. While she went to the University of North Carolina she wrote her debut novel ‘Ellen Foster’. She has received many different awards for this novel in which we hear about an eleven-year-old orphan named Ellen. The Story In the beginning of the story Ellen’s […]

Those women who feature in Michael Frayn’s ‘Spies’ are predominately presented to us through the eyes of the adolescent protagonist; Stephen, whose conflicting feelings relating to them are representative of his evolving maturity. His confusion is intensified by the fact that the women he encounters throughout the novel do not wholly conform to the social […]

The narrative techniques that Frazier has used to present the journeys of Inman, Ada and other characters can be seen through flashbacks, premonitions, dreams and the meetings of unexpected people. The key element in this novel is how the two protagonist characters; Inman and Ada, both have their own separate journeys in individual chapters which […]

The two short stories I have chosen to study for this essay show an incredibly rich use of language and imagery to depict both the atmosphere and emotions of the characters. The first Prose is called Odour of Chrysanthemums by D.H.Lawrence and the second piece is Eveline by James Joyce.In the short story the Odour […]

‘Sexing the Cherry’ is considered as a post-modern text because it has been broken away from the Victorian narrative and rational tradition which is usually linear (start, middle and end) while post-modernism is usually mixed up. This is to break away from normal traditional writings and making it more catching for readers. Also, it values […]

Jealousy is in our human nature and Shakespeare’s The Winters Tale shows the pure destructive power that it can hold. We see in The Winters Tale how fickle the minds of powerful people can be and how simple acts can be misconstrued.The first example of this, and the first point towards Leontes being a jealous […]