Narrative Essay Examples

In this essay, I will be comparing two stories: ‘The Whole Town’s Sleeping’ by Ray Bradbury and ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’ by Wilkie Collins. Despite being written in different centuries (one in the 19th Century and the other in the 20th Century), both authors successfully evoke fear in readers and create high-quality thriller stories. I […]

Throughout the Novel, Fitzgerald builds up and embellishes the character of Jay Gatsby (James Gatz) in the reader’s minds so intricately it can be interpreted in many different ways. Many would say that in the novel Fitzgerald is creating sympathy for Gatsby in order to create a strong emotional response when eventually Gatsby is ‘rejected’ […]

“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 […]

H. G wells creates the sense of fear by creating an eerie situation that creates an overwhelming sense of darkness in the mind of the narrator. Consequently this causes him to be very fearful himself. He also uses a first person narrator, which makes the turn of events more immediate. He personifies objects and keeps […]

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 […]

In a speech given on Wednesday September 14 2005, Governor Kathleen Blanco addressed the Joint Session of the Louisiana State Legislature in Baton Rouge, Louisiana about hurricane Katrina’s aftermath. The audience included President George W. Bush, the Speaker, members of the House and Senate, clergy members, commanding officers, and honored guests. In her address, Kathleen […]

Madame Bovary was written in 1857 in a time of great social unrest in France. The Revolution in 1772 had led to some movement towards the establishment of equality between the sexes, however, this was to be temporarily abolished with the re-introduction of the monarchy and women’s roles within society were redefined once more. The […]

To understand the concept of ‘the gaze’, it is necessary to first provide a definition. The gaze can be seen as having both colonizing and decolonizing aspects. The works of Edward Brathwaite and Mahasweta Devi illustrate this duality. Despite one’s efforts to decolonize oneself, colonization still persists due to its pervasive influence. This colonization extends […]

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 […]

If the work of Jean Vigo had to be categorized into a particular aesthetic movement, it would be that of Surrealism. P. E. Salles Gomes wrote, “I would not be surprised at all to find the combined influence of Junghans and Bunuel among the sources from which Vigo’s own personal style grew”. French Surrealists such […]

The main theme of Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiography The Woman Warrior revolves around the talk-stories of women who have had an impact on her life and identity. The book incorporates elements of Chinese heritage, legends, and folktales to depict the challenges faced by women in establishing their sense of self in a new country. While […]

– Area of study: Inner Journey – Explore the ways in which the text depicts journeys of the mind and spirit. Inner journeys involve the exploration of the self, as individuals review their growth and development in the light of experiences which challenge and inspire them. – An inner journey can be defined as a […]

Lawrence Norfolk, when asked about his novels, has two distinct ways of answering. When promoting his debut novel, Lempriere’s Dictionary, he famously summarized it as “a 500-page book about a dead dictionary writer with no sex in it.” Similarly, his second novel, The Pope’s Rhinoceros, can be succinctly described as “It’s got the Pope at […]

‘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 […]

Metonymy doesn’t substitute like metaphor something like the thing that is meant for the thing itself, but substitutes some attribute or cause or effect of the thing for the thing itself. As an elaborate and repetitive device, it fulfils two functions in modernist poems. It depicts a fragmentation of perception – which it in part […]

First, it should be noted that every film is political, at least inasmuch as it is determined by the ideology that produces it (or within which it is produced, which stems from the same thing). The cinema is all the more thoroughly and completely determined, according to critics, because unlike other arts or ideological systems […]

“‘The Handmaids Tale’ by Margaret Atwood is a narrative that challenges the absolute authority of Gilead, highlighting the significance of storytelling as an act of resistance against oppression, thereby making a particular kind of individual political statement.” (7) The narrative provides an insight of barbarical chauvinism in an injustice system of oppression towards women. It […]

Recruits Chart the significant plot details for each section; highlight what you consider to be the turning points in this section of the narrative. It is after midnight on payday.  “Down the line” in Montreal is Cadieux Street, St. Elizabeth Street, La Gauchetiere Street, Vitre Street, Craig Street. The houses are known by their numbers, […]

The story “The Wife’s Story” is about the tale of the werewolf but vice versa, instead of seeing everything from the human’s point of view it shows it in the werewolf’s perspective. The author of this is Ursula K. Le Guin and she did a fantastic job writing this. Its odd how she reversed the […]

VICTORIANISM AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first […]

 By Henry Jenkins The relationship between games and story remains a divisive question among game fans, designers, and scholars alike. At a recent academic Games Studies conference, for example, a blood feud threatened to erupt between the self-proclaimed Ludologists, who wanted to see the focus shift onto the mechanics of game play, and the Narratologists, […]