Writer Essays

“The Signalman” by Charles Dickens is the first story I will discuss. It was written in the 1840’s or 1850’s, during a time when people believed in rational explanations for everything. However, Dickens challenges this belief by presenting a ghost story without a clear explanation, allowing readers to engage their imaginations. The story centers around […]

The tradition of the mystery story begins with Gothic writing, around 1810. From the Gothic story sub-categories were then created through a progression of stories. These further categories were ghost story, horror and detective. Each different category has some common key features which help to distinguish them and some other, now well known, stereotypical characteristics. […]

a) Based upon Massaud Moisés’ definition, we can affirm “The Signalman”, by Charles Dickens, belongs to the Gothic Fiction genre. For it has most of the elements that belongs to Gothic writing, such as mystery and horror in the plot, the presence of the supernatural, and the absence of light in a gloomy setting, which […]

In this assignment I will be looking at two stories from this century and the last. I will examine the similarities and differences between them in content, style and language and I will talk about how the writers’ backgrounds influenced their stories and their way of writing. The opening page of both of the stories […]

The stories are set in slightly different eras – ‘the signalman’ is set in the Victorian era, written by Charles Dickens, whilst ‘the Darkness out there’ is set a more recent 20th century, and written by Penelope Lively. Although both stories are set in different times, both of the script writers build up tension using […]

I have been studying the life of Charles Dickens and the times of the Victorian era that began with the coronation of Queen Victoria. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Portsmouth. His parents were John and Elizabeth Dickens. Charles was the second of their eight children; he later left school at the […]

Explore the significance of representations of the city and/or the countryside in two nineteenth-century novels. During the nineteenth century, many Victorians aspired towards a life in the city where the opportunities were abundant and wealth and success were the dominant prospects, whereas country life was regarded as laborious and limited. ‘In the last twenty years […]

Two Very Different Marriage Proposals Both the first passage from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the second from a novel written by Charles Dickens are marriage proposals made by men. Even though the explicit purpose of these proposals is to persuade, the two essays reveal two very different assumptions each of the writers have […]

Cities are places which enable the realization of the self, or conversely cities separate the self from creativity and Imagination In spaces of alienation and estrangement’ (Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson). Discuss the city as a site of self- enhancement and/or ‘alienation and estrangement’ In the texts on the unit. Our surroundings manipulate the way […]

Charles Dickens’ classic novella A Christmas Carol, focuses on the social responsibility of the wealthy to help the poor and less fortunate. Dickens, having lived in poverty as a child, knew of the many struggles of the lower class of London. As an author, he made it his goal to reform England as best he […]

Charles John Huffam Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. During his early childhood, he resided in London and Chatham with his father, who worked as a naval clerk. At the tender age of 12, his father’s imprisonment for debt forced Dickens to abandon school and start working at the Blacking […]

A human being contains a lot of qualities. Like feelings which is a very big part of a human. We can feel happiness, sorrow, anger but we can also feel the conscience and the guilt. Anger can result in bad behavior and bad behavior can result in the feeling of guilt. No matter what we […]

The Fall Of The House Of Usher is a morbid melancholy story, common to the style of Edgar Allan Poe, whose works frequently incorporated death. The story is focused upon Roderick Usher, the last remaining heir to a wealthy family. Roderick was a hypochondriac who had an acuteness of touch, smell and taste, which could […]

Phillis Wheatley and Edgar Allan Poe In choosing two authors to write about and compare and contrast, I decide to choose Phillis Wheatley and Edgar Allan Poe. The reason for choosing the two is because they are both two authors that I have heard about before but, never really knew about them and their works. […]

The texts chosen for this study are: ‘The Pit and The Pendulum’ by Edgar Allan Poe and ‘An Encounter’ by James Joyce which, I feel, are appropriate as they provide comprehensive coverage of the themes analysed whilst managing to cover a historical period of some seventy years1. Poe’s piece is a dark, Gothic work which […]

Known for his fluxing descriptive and Gothic manner. Edgar Allan Poe does non look to develop any obvious narrative construction in his work. His short narratives are by and large identified with the gloomy. desolate. and horrifically flooring esthesiss they spark within the reader. Particularly in his short narrative. “Ligeia. ” Poe seems to hold […]

The poet Edgar Allen Poe, in his poem “The Raven,” uses various literary devices such as alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, vowel rhyme, and repetition to create a gloomy atmosphere. These techniques contribute to the musical nature of the work and visually depict his Gothic scene. Poe is a skilled writer who effectively utilizes these techniques, making […]

Literary Elements in Poe’s Writing In the writings of great authors it is easy to pick out the literary elements used by them. Edgar Allan Poe is one of these authors. He makes use of the same literary elements in many of his stories. Three of the most used literary elements are irony, antagonists and […]

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it . . . Yet, mad am I not – and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.” […]

In Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Pit and the Pendulum’; and ‘The Masque of the Red Death’;, the author uses different symbolism to illustrate the image of death. In both of these stories, death is the final result of a punishment, the end of a human’s life. However, in the first story, Poe shows us that […]

The poem The Raven is one of the classics of the American literary canon. Its author Edgar Allan Poe, the quintessential American poet and short story writer, brings rhythm, style and high metaphor to bear on this work. Published in the era preceding the American Civil War, the poem captures sentiments common during the time. […]

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most illustrious litterateur’s to have graced the art in the United States of America. His short stories and poems were enjoyed by the public during his own life time as they are still relished contemporarily. His two greatest artistic gifts are his perceptiveness of psychological nuances and his […]