Event Essay Examples

Grace Nichols is a poet who has written poems about immigration. These three poems that will be compared in these essays are all written by her and about the experience of immigration. However not all of them are necessarily from her point of view. ‘Island Man’ has been from a man’s point of view. In […]

Alan Bennett’s characters (in Lady of Letters, Her Big Chance and Bed Among the Lentils) possess similar qualities of being ‘ordinary, uneventful and desperate’ as their lives can be viewed as being dull, mundane and monotonous. Using dramatic monologue, not only is Bennett able to explore the different aspects of life, but also make it […]

‘Treasure Island’ is a well-known classic that tells a thrilling sea adventure. The book introduces memorable characters like Jim Hawkins, blind Pew, and Long John Silver. Even those who haven’t read the book are familiar with the dreaded pirate and the significance of the treasure’s location marked by a cross. The story begins in a […]

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 […]

Hardy portrays Angel’s rejection of Tess in a number of different ways. At the start of chapter 34 Angel makes the mistake of choosing an old d’Urberville mansion for their honeymoon. Tess is upset by the choice as it suggests that all will not be well. ‘Welcome to your ancestral mansion,’ is perceived being a […]

Set in 1948, immediately following the second World War, P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang is a tale of Alan’s painful coming-of-age journey. He slowly sheds his naivety and begins to understand the real character of the individuals around him. Miss Land and many other grown-ups in the play show hypocrisy; this includes her interaction with youngsters experiencing […]

Released in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s ground breaking summer blockbuster ‘Jurassic Park’ contains many themes, such as parenthood, money and greed, and the ethics of science. In this essay I will explore these themes and show how the director illustrated them in this film. In the film, Jurassic Park’s owner John Hammond is being sued millions […]

‘The Importance of being Earnest’ is a comical play. The characters and the plot are both comical, but the play may be best described as a social comedy, a comedy of manors. Wilde uses many comic devices to make the play funny but I think the main focus is on using irony in this particular […]

The initial impression Shakespeare creates of Lady Macbeth might make the audience feel that ‘fiend-like queen’ is indeed a fair representation of Lady Macbeth’s character mainly because of the part she plays in the atrocious murder of good king Duncan, a murder which leads to many others taking place. As she reads the letters so […]

“The Great Gatsby” is chiefly concerned with the elusive Jay Gatsby and his role as a superficial socialite in 1920s New York. Everything in the novel is filtered through the romantic eyes of Nick Carraway (the main narrator) and so it is hard to come to clear judgement of the complicated character of Gatsby, the […]

The structure of the two novels is significantly different upon examination. “Remains of the Day” is a travel diary that tells the story of a wasted life and missed opportunities. It follows Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, on a journey that serves as both a symbolic and physical exploration for him. As he moves […]

The first few pages of “Miss Julie” reveals a few aspects of the characters of Jean and Miss Julie, it foreshadows the events that may happen later on in the play and it reveals the gender and class discrimination. The theme of class discrimination and rigidity is shown in the play. The setting of the […]

While no major events take place in the opening chapter of Ulysses, it remains an important one because it introduces the elements that will play out as the novel continues. In relation to the rest of the novel, the opening chapter raises a series of questions that the reader expects the remainder of the novel […]

Have you ever seen someone strange? Strange enough, in fact, to chill you to your bones, and boil your blood all at once? I haven’t seen someone like this, but I have read about someone like this. In the fantastic story “The Ratcatcher” by Roald Dahl I will ‘travel’ down into the depths of the […]

“Stand By Me” is an extraordinary film directed by Rob Reiner, based on one of Stephen King’s novels called “The Body. ” It is about four boys going on an adventure to find the dead body of a boy their age. The film focuses on two of the main characters, how the experience of the […]

In 1944, shortly after the Second World War, a flood of American films could be found in France. The critics noticed many recurrent images throughout these B-movies, which were smaller films shown before the main feature. The films became known as a genre: film noir. Film noir is French for ‘black films’. We tend to […]

‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ is ultimately a love story involving three people. Pelagia finds herself torn between two men, Dr. Iannis and Captain Corelli. Although they have different experiences during the war, both characters undergo significant transformations as a result. One could argue that either of them could be considered the hero of the novel, with […]

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill dramatises contemporary life in 1980s Britain depicting a time of change and shifting priorities and expectations as far as women were concerned within society. The period was characterised by Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Yet unlike the country’s political agenda, Theatre was not driven by a female force. […]

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ” -Oscar Wiled In society, there are many issues to deal with but there are also ways to make life much easier. Individuality has been an ongoing problem because society as a whole distances themselves from people being individuals and rather pushes towards the “cookie cutter” standards. Lack […]

Lord of the flies by William Golding tells us about a group of English school boys, maybe the only survivors of a plane crash, who are stranded on an unknown isolated island. The boys slowly form a group , as the only ones on the island, they decide to elect a leader and perform basic […]

The writing style of Henry James contrasts sharply with that of Dickens. James’ style focuses on capturing not only the reader’s imagination but also their personal experiences and reality. James uses the current reality to engage readers by employing a writing style known as literary literalism. With his keen understanding of human psychology, he delves […]

Our speaker gets some advice from an older, wiser person: don’t bank too much on love. Like any young person, he promptly ignores the advice. Did we mention that he’s 21? Keep that in mind. It’ll be important later. Flash forward: now he’s 22. And as it turns out, the advice he got was pretty […]