Narration Essay Examples

Fitzgerald explores the wealth and glamour of the 1920s in the opening of chapter three. It focuses on the gap between perception and reality and is devoted to the introduction of the main character Jay Gatsby and the lavish, showy world he inhabits. Fitzgerald develops the readers’ responses to Gatsby’s parties by different means. By […]

In this essay I will be concentrating on the theme of an outsider. The theme of an outsider is an important one in George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner’ because it is a story about a man who is alienated from his community because he is different, a social misfit “In that far-off time superstition clung easily […]

In “Battle Royal” by Ralph Ellison, the brawl initially acts as a suspense builder. Before the climactic speech, the reader must explore the fight between the protagonist and a few black boys. White men incite this fight for their own viewing pleasure. At first glance, the Battle Royal scene appears trivial but it allows the […]

In ‘The Tell Tale Heart’, Edgar Allan Poe uses emotive vocabulary to build up a feeling of tension and excitement. His clever use of repetition builds up the feeling of madness and obsession that is experienced by the story’s central character; phrases such as ‘steadily, steadily’ 1 and ‘stealthily, stealthily’ 2. The distinct lack of […]

The story was written in 1992/93. The story is about a residential home. The place has quite a history through the years. The story is about a lady who is visiting her aunt who lives in the residential home.The story of ‘The Red Room’ was written quite along way back. It was written in the […]

Both ‘The red room’ by H. G. Wells and ‘Farthing house’ by Susan Hill are examples of ghost stories. But what makes a ghost story? Obviously, there has to be some sort of ghost whether it be literally a ghost or someone’s imagination, it doesn’t matter as long as there is some sort of suspense […]

Comparisons will be made between the following stories: The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs, The Signalman by Charles Dickens, The Red Room by H. G. Wells, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Sir Thomas Browne, and The Speckled Band: Sherlock Holmes Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Despite being written around the same […]

HG Wells uses literacy techniques in The War Of The Worlds to add tension and create a better more frightening atmosphere. He uses four main types of literacy techniques that are: Juxtaposition Pathetic fallacy Omniscient viewpoint And cliffhangersThe meaning of these are as followed: Juxtaposition – this is where two completely different facts are put […]

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as “The Father […]

The three characters I have chosen are the Narrator from Charles Dickens’ “Confessions Found in a Prison, Isaac Scatchard from Wilkie Collins’ “The Ostler” and the Narrator from H.G. Wells’ “The Red Room”.In C. F.I.P (Confessions Found in a Prison) the narrator seems quite a normal man, but is driven to the murder of his […]

After having read the passage several times, it is comprehensible that the evident meaning of it is what she (the young woman about to marry) feels, thinks and experiences in this new phase of her life. The themes are the ones of apparent love, which suggests that the proceedings in this passage are only superficial […]

This essay is written to compare the tension between these two stories, ” The Red Room” by H G Wells and the “Farthing House” by Susan Hill. To do this differences and similarities between the stories must be compared, by looking at certain aspects of the story that effects the tension in the stories. These […]

In this essay, I will analyze how H G Wells has portrayed fear in The Red Room. I will concentrate on fear-related aspects and evaluate the effectiveness of the writer’s techniques to convey them. I aim to support my arguments with relevant quotes in my essay. The Red Room, a short story of the 1800s, […]

The Red Room, which is the pre-1914 text, is entirely set within a large country house. On the first page the house is clearly described to the reader including “a creaking door”, “a queer old mirror” as well as revolting characters with grotesque physical deformities such as “a withered arm” and “decaying yellow teeth”.Farthing House […]

‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells (1896) and ‘Farthing House’ by Susan Hill (1992) are two short ghost stories written in different centuries and in different styles. Both stories have similarities and differences in different areas such as language, atmosphere and setting. I will look at these similarities and differences and analyse them, deciding […]

‘The darkness out there which I will refer to as ‘The darkness’, and the Red Room are both short stories in which fear is used to engage the reader, but fear is used in different ways in both stories. The beginning of each story starts in a very different way. The Darkness begins peacefully with […]

In literature, there are two types of narrator: Reliable and Unreliable. In this essay, I shall be exploring the ideas of James Wood in this topic and lead to the creation of an extra element in the piece they have written, and how it affects the reader. A classic example of the use of this […]

Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissor Hands are both created by director Tim Burton, who has recently directed the film Big Fish. The two films were made back in the last millennium, Edward Scissor Hands in 1990 and Sleepy Hollow in 1999. Both films include the girls favourite Mr.Johnny Depp, also Sleepy Hollow includes the legends […]

‘The Browning Version’ and ‘About a Boy’, despite being set forty-five years apart, both explore the theme of isolation, a universal aspect of the human experience. Whether through literature or film, audiences will likely connect with these works due to their relatable themes. Are the popularity and appeal of fiction limited to time-context or do […]

When we go the cinema, we go for entertainment. But in order to enjoy the film we need to understand it. To do this an audience can look for the key concepts of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound. During this essay it will be these subjects that I investigate in order to find out how […]

In this essay I shall consider the cinematic techniques used in Lacombe, Lucien that best contribute to the overall intention of the film. Firstly, I shall consider how faces are lingered upon by the camera to involve the audience in the film, stopping them from making a pre-judgement of the situation, the occupation of France, […]

In Mandras de Bernieres creates a character of immense complexity. He has many qualities, which allow “us” as readers to be critical of him, but he also has many admirable traits. De Bernieres creates a very human character, which makes it easier for the reader to identify with. However, the multifaceted presentation of his character […]