English Literature Essays

Analysis of Robert Cormier's 'The chocolate War'
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: This novel was inspired by an event in Robert Cormier’s own life when his son refused to sell chocolates in his school. However, the outcome was not like the novel, but Cormier used this as inspiration to write about what could happen if something entirely different happened at his refusal...

Life of Pi | Character Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: Piscine Molitor Patel is the protagonist and, for most of the novel, the narrator. In the chapters that frame the main story, Pi, as a shy, graying, middle-aged man, tells the author about his early childhood and the shipwreck that changed his life. This narrative device distances the reader from the truth....

Analysis of Edward Field's Poem 'Icarus' 1963
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Introduction: Edward Field’s “Icarus,” written in 1963, is based on the theological myth of Icarus and Daedalus but is set in a modern world environment. The reader can confer that the poem is related to the myth of Icarus in the first line, “Only the feathers floating around the hat”...

'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin
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Introduction: “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is a short story from the late nineteenth century focusing on a young woman as she reacts to a report that says her husband, on the top of the list of the report, had died in a train accident. Due to this unfortunate accident she is given the chance of freedom and Chopin’s story tells that hour. ...

Satire in The Great Gatsby
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Introduction: Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby as a satire that comments on American ideals in the 1920s. He shows the carelessness of everyone during the time by portraying them in the community of East and West Egg. Fitzgerald conveys two different themes throughout the story....

Race and Racism in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'
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Introduction: One of the central issues that arise from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) is the colonialist bias used to misrepresent the African race. Whilst Conrad was not himself accountable for the xenophobic westernised image of Africa, his story maintains the damaging stereotyping of native people....

Donne's 'The Good Morrow' as a Metaphysical Poem
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Introduction: John Donne’s poem The Good Morrow is considered to be of a metaphysical realm as it Donne’s is typically metaphysical in its startling beginning, its dramatic nature and progression of thought, its striking metaphysical conceits,......

An Analysis Of Charlottes Web
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Aug 2021
Introduction: A runt is a term used in relations to an unusually small animal and is often used in relation to animals in a litter. It is often very noticeable as not only out of its small size compared to other members in a litter but also out of its inability to thrive; inability to compete with the others for warmth and food...

Nature in Romantic Literature
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Aug 2021
Introduction: Romanticism is one of the most controversial trends in European literature, in the literature Romanticism is mostly understood not only as a formal literary trend, but as a certain philosophy, and it is through this philosophy that we try to define Romanticism....

Male Masculinity in Achebe’s 'Things Fall Apart'
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Aug 2021
Introduction: In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart the main character Okonkwo’s life is based upon the believe of male masculinity and hard work. He prides himself on his masculinity and does not accept failure or weakness of any kind including any from his family members....

Mary Shelley's Life Reflected in Frankenstein
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Introduction: Even though that it is meant to be a horror novel, readers will find that the psychological aspect of the novel a lot more interesting than the actual horror aspect. We will further discuss the mirroring of the novel to Mary Shelley’s own experiences....

Themes and Symbols in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'
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Introduction: The Yellow Wallpaper is a feminist short story by Charlotte Perkins- Gilman. The significance of the story is astounding as it explores into the basic issues of a woman’s place in society, public perception of mental illness, and feminism in the 19th century....

'The Importance of Being Earnest' and Hierarchical Society
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Introduction: A comedy of manners is a descriptive term applied to a play whose comedy comes from social habits of a specified society. The play normally bases on the dominant members of the society. The social habits involve the manners and the morals practiced in the specified society....

Hamlet's Encounters with Death
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Introduction: In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare Hamlet’s character is revealed through death. In the play his reactions to his encounters of death reveals his views....

Analysis of 'Antigone and The House of The Spirits'
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Introduction: An analysis of the portrayal of social conflicts and political conflicts in Antigone and The House of The Spirits. A conflict is a dispute between thoughts, ideas, principles or people that arises from a difference of opinions....

Analysis of Forbidden Love in Tales
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: Romeo and Juliet will always remain a classic example of a tale of pure love that was forbidden. On the similar lines are Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits and Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate wherein Blanca and Pedro, Ferula and Clara in the former and Tita and Pedro Muzquiz in the latter are restrained for some reason or the other to experience the culmination of their eternal love...

Analysis of Sinclair Lewis' 'Main Street'
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: The story of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis had been written as an aggressive satire that focused primarily on social issues of the small towns of the American Midwest. This was in order to provoke a different, or perhaps, a negative view of the small, rural town life to the readers of the 1920’s. ...

Analysis of the Nella Larsen Novel 'Passing'
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Nella Larsen’s novel Passing was written in 1929 and reflected the reality she experienced herself as for the questions of racial identity and hard integration of African Americans into the civilized society....

Analysis of The Film Adaptation of 'Strangers On A Train'
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Patricia Highsmith’s by Strangers on a Train (1950) and Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of the work immerse the audience into the noir thriller’s cunning sphere of crime, a world where the impression of dread and unease is bolstered through the theme of the divided self and the uncanny form of the double, or doppelganger....

A Soldier Always At War
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Many war veterans have a hard time adjusting to life after war. What happened in the war is always on their mind. What they went through was so tragic that they cannot forget about what happened. Krebs in Earnest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is struggling to adapt to normal life after coming home from World War I....

Analysis of Henry James' short story 'Daisy Miller'
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: This novel has a lot of fascinating things ready to be discovered and understood, and behind the story of the novel a lot of symbols are hidding ready to be dyscovered and understood. ...

Analysis of Brett from 'In The Sun Also Rises'
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: Brett first comes into this novel with a crowd of men, and seems to have a very commanding presence. Throughout the novel we find out that this is exactly right. We learn that she somehow manages to create a hold, a force even, over the people, specifically men, that she meets. ...

Plot Analysis Of 'Good Country People' by Flannery O’Connor
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper we will make plot and structure analysis of a short story by Flannery O’Connor “Good Country People”, point of view analysis of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner and the theme analysis of Franz Kafka “The Metamorphosis”....

Analysis of Character and Identity in 'Hard Times' and 'Lady Audley’s Secret'
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: Both Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret approach the issue of character through an interrogation of selfhood deeply embedded in a range of 19th century strategies for the construction of identity. ...

Impressionist Movement Pierre Auguste Renoir
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd Aug 2021
Introduction: Renoir decided to study painting seriously and where he felt a much greater affinity with three students who entered the studio a few months later: Alfred Sisley, Claude Monet, and Frederic Bazille. He met them in the studio of Charles Gleyre and four of them dreamed of an art that was closer to life and free from past tradition....