Essays On Books

Candide is a humorous, implausible account by Voltaire satirizing the optimism endorsed by the philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment. The story is of a young man’s adventures around the world, where he witnesses malicious human behavior and calamity. Throughout his travels, he abides to the teachings of his lecturer, Pangloss, believing that “all is […]

Gothic texts are distinguished by the conventions they explore. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and Christabel by Samuel Taylor Coleridgem all create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense and highlight to cruel terrors and passions prevalent in Gothic texts. In atmosphere of […]

BASTILLE (from Fr. bastir, now bdtir, to build), originally any fortified building forming part of a system of defence or attack; the name was especially applied to several of the principal points in the ancient fortifications of Paris. In the reign of King John, or even earlier, the gate of Saint Antoine was flanked by […]

One Queen’s life, however, can be accounted for. Her name is Queen Alfred. The life of Queen Alfred was greatly affected by the geography, science, technology, time continuity, and culture of the Anglo Saxon collocation. Queen Alfred (otherwise known as Alfred or Lifestyle) was the first kings’ wife ever to be anointed queen of England. […]

What does the plantation tour industry in the New Orleans area look like? Who are the major players and what are their relative strengths? The plantation tour industry in Southern Louisiana takes advantage of the proximity of both New Orleans, a major international tourist destination, and Baton Rouge, a medium sized state Capitol and college […]

Having studied ‘At Castle Boterel’, a short poem written by Thomas Hardy in the early twentieth century, and ‘The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion’, a short story written by him in the late nineteenth century, it appears that Hardy is interested in the ideas of love, time and human mortality. Hardy writes about his […]

Warwick castle was first founded in 914 as an Anglo Saxon hilltop settlement built for defensive reasons. Then in 1068, Normans built a Motte and Bailey castle so therefore further increasing the defensive qualities of the site, and by the middle of the 13th century, the wooden wall had been replaced by a stone wall. […]

The Selfish Giant is a puppet production adapted from a short story by Oscar Wilde. It is about a giant who has been away from his castle and garden for 7 long years and during that time the children have come to enjoy his garden and its trees and flowers. As the story opens two […]

‘The Castle’, directed by Rob Sitch, is a film about a community whose houses are being taken by the government. Darryl Kerrigan, one of the main characters in this Australian film, fights for his house and his community. The moral of the film is that a home is more than just bricks and mortar. Firstly, […]

What is exile? For some, exile may be equivalent to eviction. For some, it may be equivalent to shunning. The dictionary definitions of exile are “absence from own country,” “somebody living outside own country,” and “banishment. ” These definitions are examples of a physical exile, or in other words, a physical removal or dislocation of […]

The Last Castle is about a three star General, who is sentenced to ten years in a military prison for disobeying direct orders and getting his men killed in a mission. Once he gets to the prison, he meets the warden Colonel Winter who is not only in charge of the prison, but who highly […]

In order to answer the above question I will need to determine what Erving Goffman meant by the term ‘total institution’. I shall also look at his theories on the characteristics of such an environment and the concept behind the label. I shall then write of Lennox Castle, how it operates, its inhabitant’s experiences of […]

The novel can be described as a bildungsroman genre, in other words, a rite of passage novel. In what way does Holden experience a rite of passage? The rite of passage experienced by Holden in the text involves the original identity of Holden: a typical representation of the angst teen, susceptible to extreme dips between […]

Within “The Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield’s coming of age story is filled with conflicts related to maturity, including the use of graphic language by the narrator throughout the text. The use of offensive language and derogatory terms throughout the text makes it controversial and frequently banned from curriculums, especially when considering younger readers. […]

Coming of age has a different definition in diverse areas of society, but Wikipedia (www. wikipedia. com) told me this when I searched the deflnltion of “coming of age”: “Coming of age Is a young person’s transition from childhood to adulthood. The age at which this transition takes place varies in society, as does the […]

“Rather than being a flaw of The Cement Garden, ambiguity of character and authorial intention actually makes for a more satisfying reader experience than the obvious and over-repeated insights Salinger gives us into Holden’s mind. ” Discuss, with close comparison of the writers’ techniques in The Catcher in the Rye and The Cement Garden. When […]

It’s highly intriguing that years after it’s publishing, The Catcher in the Rye remains such an intriguing novel to teachers, students, and the general population alike. Yet through analyzing the main themes of the book, one can deduce that although the slang and fashion might be outdated, The Catcher in the Rye is still relatable […]

In the ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime’ both books involve a teenage male child who is someway separated from the remainder of the universe. In Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime the supporter. a fifteen-year-old male child Christopher Boone is faced […]

In 1919 Jerome David Salinger was born to Sol and Miriam Jillich Salinger. This man would have a moderately normal childhood attending the private McBurney School in Manhattan, and afterwards the Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1936. He then attended New York University for an unsuccessful summer session in short-story […]

Discuss how the values and attitudes of non-conformity are explored in both The Catcher in the Rye and Igby goes Down-(refer to context, purpose and techniques. ) 1. Good morning fellow non-conformists and, today I will be talking to you about how the novel The Catcher in The Rye, written by J. D Salinger and […]

Martin Margiela, rightfully nicknamed the “J. D. Salinger of the fashion world,” rejects the idea of being photographed and only grants interview via fax. Moreover, he prefers not labeling his designs, and branding them with blank labels instead (Art and Culture). This is because he was opposed to designers’ “status-hungry cult” of the 1980s (Answers […]

In his novel The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger employs various techniques to convey both hope and despair concerning the character of Holden Caulfield. Hope is portrayed as a positive belief in a favorable outcome, while despair represents a complete absence of such belief. Salinger uses narrative style, symbolism, and foreshadowing to explore these […]