Writer Essays

Kate Chopin was born as Kate O’Flaherty in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. She got married in 1870 and published her first book, “At Fault,” in 1890. Her controversial work, “The Awakening,” was published in 1899. Unhappy events in her life, like death the death of her loved ones made her a skeptic of religion […]

Abstract This paper aims to explore Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour from a cognitive poetics/stylistics perspective. The analysis emphasizes integration of language and literature and draws upon theories developed in the general field of cognitive poetics/stylistics (Stockwell 2002; Gavins and Steen 2003). For the purposes of this research, using Stockwell’s model of Deictic […]

Symbolisms in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” is a short story written in 1898 but was not published until 1969. The story explores an excess of turbulent emotions of the protagonists in the backdrop of unexpected storm. Chopin effectively confronts the brewing conflict of the story by her unflinching depiction of the […]

What a Kiss Means I recently read some interesting short stories titled The Kiss by Kate Chopin and Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri. Both these stories are alike and different in different ways. A comparison of these two short stories is presented throughout this paper. Although, I enjoyed both stories one was easier to picture […]

Nevertheless, there are some cases when this line of thought may be justified: not in the way of mindlessly attributing every physical event of a book to the life of its author, but in the sense of parallels and the personal, social and ethical circumstances under which the literary work was created. Oscar Wilde’s The […]

At the turn of the twentieth century, The Importance of Being Ernest premiered as a humorous play that is widely recognized as a “farce” and a “social satire.” This classification accurately captures the play’s emphasis on street-smart humor, although some critics originally objected to its lack of seriousness and social message. Such objections were uncommon […]

The Selfish Giant is a puppet production adapted from a short story by Oscar Wilde. It is about a giant who has been away from his castle and garden for 7 long years and during that time the children have come to enjoy his garden and its trees and flowers. As the story opens two […]

Having been written when Oscar Wilde’s literary career was blossoming, The Nightingale and the Rose is one of his most well-known works. This tale reflects the author’s glorification of natural beauty, artificial beauty and also the beauty of devoted love. Beauty and art were the measure of all things. He admired unselfishness, kindness and generosity. […]

Published in 1899, Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a satirical portrayal of Victorian society. It is known as the writer’s greatest achievement and is highly regarded for its brilliance, inventiveness, and extreme humor. In the play, Wilde effectively depicts the characteristics of Victorian individuals through every character, particularly the two leading female […]

Me (Question 1): So, Phillis. Please tell me about your experience of traveling from Africa to America. Phillis Wheatley: The journey was quite unpleasant, especially the uncomfortable ship ride. The rooms had a height of only 5 feet 8 inches, but it was mercy that brought me from my Pagan land and taught my benighted […]

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. […]

Slavery has been one of the most cruel and inhuman ‘economic’ systems, and allleged necessary evils to plague the course of our nation’s history; affecting in particular, the African American population. A great extent of African American history relates and documents the struggles of the African American people to overcome the oppression brought about by […]

Imagery in Phillis Wheatley’s Poems Phillis Wheatley was a black slave born in Africa and brought to America, in particular Boston in 1761. Wheatley was purchased by John Wheatley, a wealthy tailor as a gift for his wife, Susannah. Wheatley was quite fortunate in her surroundings due to the sympathy Susannah had towards her. Susannah […]

In this essay, I will be comparing a pre-20th Century novel, “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, and a 20th Century novel, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. Both novels fit into the Science Fiction genre and both look at the effects man’s ignorance and ignorant intervention could have on the future. Science Fiction […]

Although both these stories are based around the theme of fear, the types of fear that the characters in each story experience are quite different.’The Whole Town Is Sleeping’ is the more modern of the two stories. It was written in 1950, just after the Second World War and at the beginning of the Cold […]

This piece of writing will evaluate the creation of fear, suspense, and atmosphere in ‘The Red Room’ by H G Wells and ‘The Whole Towns Sleeping’ by Ray Bradbury. The text will compare and contrast the techniques utilized by both authors. ‘The Red Room’, a gothic horror, and ‘The Whole Towns Sleeping’, a fear story, […]

In the short story, “The Fox and the Forest,” from the anthology The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury uses suspense and symbolism to support the theme of the story. In the story, a young couple, William and Susan Travis, are trying to escape their past, which would be our future. They want to escape the future […]

The end of the Second World War sparked new cultural movements in American society. Factories which were once used to mass produce airplanes, tanks, and other machines of war were no longer needed for that purpose. Servicemen returned from overseas to find a massive amount of available jobs, wages were higher due to an economic […]

In the short stories by Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt” and “The Fog Horn” plot, theme and characterization intertwine. The personas of each character help drive the plot and theme within each story. This is important because the characters are the personality of the story and are needed to propel the plot, along with keeping the […]

Ray Bradbury’s “A Sound of Thunder” and H.G. Wells’ “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” are both science fiction stories that convey moral lessons. Bradbury’s story explores the theme of man’s exploitation of technology, while Wells’ story portrays the theme of man’s ignorance and failure to understand the power of a gift. Despite the similarities […]

This assessment has asked me to compare and contrast the stories of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and The Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. In this assignment the differences in language and characters will be compared and contrasted. The genre of the short story will be contrasted with the short novel. The different […]

Conformity is a mile apart from individualism, in one context a character fashions his/her decisions to be familiar with the societies preferences. On the other hand, individualism is more about living separately from the society’s concept. It is more about individual beliefs. The two elements of social interaction are often utilized to reveal conflicts in […]