Essays on Authors

Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is a well-known comedic love story behind the walls of humor and satire. It revolves around Cyrano de Bergerac’s failed pursuit of love of a maiden named Roxanne because of his many personal flaws. Ironically, these are the exact flaws that prompt many to regard Cyrano as a tragic hero. Although...

The early 19th Century was described by Joshua David Gonsalves as a period defined by ‘manliness in crisis’ within which, expectations of how men should act were continually changing (Gonsalves 2015: 2). The poetic voices who took centerstage during the Romantic era were that of the ‘Big Six’ – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and...

Gender differences or similarities are not openly discussed throughout the series. Hogwarts is a mixed school were everything seems to be divided equally, everyone takes the same classes, they wear uniforms, play Quidditch in mixed teams, have mixed staff. Hogwarts is shown to be non-sexist because it shows both great witches and wizards working in...

Creator of the most famous and best-loved character in contemporary fiction, J.K Rowling is also the author of her escape from a depressing existence on the verge of destitution. On the one hand, there is J.K Rowling who wrote the ‘Harry Potter’ novels, ‘The Casual Vacancy’ and ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’; the literary phenomenon of the...

Throughout our journey on this planet, it can be hard to to recognize the wonderful lessons the dark parts of our life offers us. As humans, we strive to succeed, and do not take failure very well. Since we do not accept failure we try to cover up the obstacles facing us to pretend like...

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.” (Pope); Alexander Pope’s works on poetry and writings were truly the basis for Neoclassical literature in the 18th century and aimed on bringing back the classical principles set by some of the earliest writers such as Virgil and Horace. Neoclassicism is a literary and creative movement that came...

Inside the pages of the first book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, we find an 11-year old boy represent what we, across various cultures, call a “hero”. While this term was not coined for the plot to Harry Potter, it has, in fact, been used since the beginning of story-telling. The concept of a...

In “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here” written by Mark Edmunson, the purpose of education is discussed as the idea that education is something worth fighting for. Edmunson proposes that it is the student’s responsibility to work hard for the pursuit of an education that is meaningful to them. Higher education is...

Discussion My question for my extended project qualification is “Does J.K Rowling support of discourage gender stereotypes and typical gender roles?”. To begin with I thought that this question would be quite one sided and that I would struggle to find research that opposed my point of view. However this wasn’t the case. When I...

“Good People” by David Foster Wallace is a short story based on a Christian couple challenged to make a tough decision. Christianity and their morals will have a huge impact based on the decision the couple is trying to make. It is easy to say religion is a big theme in this story because the...