Genre Essays

In “Jane Eyre”, Jane suffers the most from Imprisonment. She was imprisoned from a very young age; for as long as she can remember. Brought up feeling as though she was a burden is enough to make her feel unhappy and imprisoned. She feels she can’t speak her mind because if she does, she could […]

This essay is about the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte. I am going to explain how Bronte makes the reader feel sympathy towards Jane using several different methods. The novel Jane Eyre follows Jane’s life from when she is a little girl through her unhappy childhood and into adult life. It is written […]

Of the poems that I have studied I have chosen “My Last Duchess”, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “Porphria’s Lover”. The poems are similar in many ways but also have some differences. The poem Porphria’s Lover was published in 1836 and is based on a criminal who murders Porphyria so that he can be […]

The detailed poem written by Seamus Heaney vividly portrays the appearance, flavour, and texture of blackberries while effectively utilizing colour descriptions. Both texts explore the theme of childhood and coming of age. The writer in the short story vividly depicts the young boy’s initial excitement and emotions, but later portrays his disappointment and sadness. In […]

The two books I have chosen to compare are The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and A Fragment of Stained Glass by D. H. Lawrence. This essay will give a brief outline of both texts, I have studied, and show any similarities or differences, I have found between them. Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The […]

Entry 1 – Today at work, I learned that my son’s father, Edward, will be returning home tomorrow with his new wife. The maids have been gossiping about her, describing her as having a ‘rosy cheeked, titsy-tosy little body’. I know they talk about me too and have asked my son to find out what […]

“The Son’s Veto” is a story about a mother who sacrifices everything for a son who doesn’t seem to care about her. Originally she had been a servant who worked for Mr Twycott, the local vicar. During her work period she falls down the stairs and becomes disabled. Because of guilt Mr Twycott asks Sophy […]

The poem titled “The Seduction” by Eileen McCauley narrates a story set around the 1980s in the uninviting Birkenhead Docks of Liverpool during night time. This poem revolves around the seduction of a young girl, and the location is portrayed as dirty, dilapidated and isolated. The boy, who is only around 15-16 years old, was […]

The Withered arm, authored during a time when society was divided into tiers, is a literary work that explores the human condition. Exploring social class and envy, the story of Rhoda Brook, a lonely and aging milkmaid, focuses on her jealousy towards her ex-boyfriend’s wealthy new wife, Gertrude. As a social reject among her colleagues, […]

I will compare two stories: ‘Country Lovers’ and ‘The Withered Arm’. Both ‘Country Lovers’, written by Nadine Gardimer and published in 1975, and ‘The Withered Arm’, written by Thomas Hardy and published in the 1870s, explore the themes of couples defying social conventions of their time. These social norms were determined by their respective communities […]

In this essay, my aim is to examine how Thomas Hardy foreshadows events in the opening pages of three short stories. Specifically, I will be analyzing ‘The Withered Arm’, ‘The Son’s Veto’, and ‘Tony Kytes the Arches Deceiver’. Each story will be briefly described. The latter tale centers around Tony Kytes, who is pursued by […]

Tony Kites, the Arch Deceiver is written by a male (Thomas Hardy) and deals with a male and female relationship. The females in this story are portrayed as quite stupid and easily led on. When considering the time of when the prose was written (1870’s) then the women would of also been quite presumptuous and […]

Thomas Hardy was a well-known author and wrote many stories in the 1800’s. He was highly influenced by women from very early on in his life. It was his mother who encouraged him to be educated. His teacher was also female and he became very close to her. His mother, jealous of this relationship, took […]

‘The Withered Arm’, and ‘The Call’, are both ghost stories. ‘The Withered Arm’ was written in the 1800’s, but was set in 1819. ‘The Call’, by Robert Westall, is a much more modern story. The atmosphere in ‘The Withered Arm’ is also older than ‘The Call’, due to the social and historical background. Women’s roles […]

I am going to compare the story by Thomas Hardy, that was first published and set in the second half of the nineteenth century, with a story written by D. H. Lawrence which is set in the early twentieth century in the period of the first world war, to assess the different treatment of women […]

“The Darkness out There”, by Penelope Lively is a short story about Sandra, a young girl, growing up. At first she is young and innocent, and thinks the world is separated into categories where people’s appearances determine what kind of people they are. As the story progresses, we see the transition from her innocence to […]

In Blood Brothers the narrator is a ubiquitous and enigmatic character whose function is to act as a dramatic device to continue the story, foreshadow events and allow the audience to see a projection of the consciousness of some of the characters, particularly Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons. He is only present during sad and […]

Superstition is arguably the main diving force behind the events of ‘Blood Brothers’.Russel shows how supersitious belief drives Mrs Johnstone’s powerlessness, Mrs Lyons’ decent into madness and, though the women’s actions, the deaths of the twins. Throughout the play, Russell uses the Narrator as a dramatic device to remind the audience of the invented superstitious […]

In the novel Pedro Paramo, Susana San Juan plays an important yet ambiguous role. She lives in Comala and she is the wife of the wealthiest and most malicious landowner, Pedro Paramo. This wealth, however, does not satisfy her for she wishes to be with her deceased husband, Florencio. She does not find pleasure in […]

The selection of poems I will be looking at and analysing are all based on “Love and Loss” All these poems are written before 1900, and all focus on four different aspects of love.The first ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is about jealous love… The second ‘Villegiature’ by Edith Nesbit is about disappointment in […]

At the beginning of the play, some plotlines are about to develop while others have already occurred. Lydia Languish and Captain Absolute have developed romantic feelings for each other. In order to fulfill her romantic ideals, Captain Absolute has assumed the persona of Ensign Beverly, a destitute soldier, while concealing his true identity. Lydia’s widowed […]

The title “Togetherness? ” suggests that the stories in this section are about characters that seem really close but really there are not as close as they first seem. Particularly good examples of this are, “The Unexpected” by Kate Chopin and “News of the Engagement” by Arnold Bennett. At the beginning of “The Unexpected”, Dorothea […]