Essays on Authors

I present to you today how Shakespeare’s Henry IV has continually remained relevant through Falstaff’s character, who embodies imperfection, and thus humanity. Let’s begin by jumping to Act 2 Scene 4 of the play. In this scene we’re presented with Falstaff who roleplays as the Prince, and Hal as King Henry. The two delve into...

J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series was an instant hit in modern culture, as she explores boundaries between the human and non-human quite masterfully. From owls that deliver messages to a half-giant half-human, Rowling creates magical creatures that blur the lines between humans and animals. The shared relationship between humans and nature is the most apparent...

What are the limits for the self? Where does the self-finish and the other or the community begins? One of the concepts that say the most about our way of thinking is the idea of the self. Whether language reveals or delimits how thought works, the truth is that the self is such an elementary...

Even though Chaucer, More and, Shakespeare live in different eras, the social, economic and political events haven’t changed. Even in our era things still haven’t changed, it’s still the same as it was back when Chaucer, More and, Shakespeare were alive. In this essay, I will be discussing how the works of Chaucer, Moore, and...

While many works of fiction portray love through a utopian perspective where true love is easy to achieve, the story of Cyrano follows a failed quest for intimacy, where Cyrano’s own tragic flaws stop him from achieving the romance he dreams of. It is these same tragic flaws that help to define Cyrano as a...

This assignment will outline the basic overview of the texts History of the Nun and The Rape of the Lock as well as the underlying subtext reading. It will also display some of the authors biographies and their careers as writers writing in the eighteenth century. Lastly, it will outline the ways in which the...

Sigmund Freud’s coinage of the Oedipus complex is a theory many critics tend to address when writing about Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Rather than centre their attention on the Aristotelian tragic elements of the play or the mistreatments and problematic relationship with Ophelia, critics seem far more enchanted by the sickening psychoanalytic approach and concern themselves with...

Have you ever thought or the nostalgia to lead a perfect family life without problems and to be accepted in society, as portrayed in TV shows or series? They think of being in white families leads to a relaxed life and getting better chances. In Gary Soto’s ‘Looking for Work’ story, a young boy wants...

Over the past six centuries, hundreds of thousands of millions of immigrants have immigrated to North America that was artisans, artists, engineers, refugees, slaves, families, and authors. Since the early 1900s, Los Angeles has become one of the greatest multiethnic metropolitan cities in the world through immigration. Throughout the county of Los Angeles, there has...

Phillis Wheatley’s “To the University of Cambridge, in New England”, is a daunting address to students at Cambridge University about the importance of God’s mercy, and abandonment of sin. Wheatley’s address is delivered in three stanzas that speak to her intentions for writing, the errors of the education the students are receiving, and God’s enduring...