William Golding once said, “We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.” This is explored in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies. The novel begins after a plane transporting a group of school-aged boys crashes on an island leaving no adults. The boys start off civil and...
Introduction 1.1. Background of the Study Jane Eyre, one of the most fabulous and famous novels in English literature, was published on 16 October 1847. It was written by Charlotte Bronte, who is the eldest of the three Bronte sisters, under the pseudonym of Currer Bell. It is clear that Charlotte Bronte, established herself as...
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen writes about the social interactions within her time period. She reflects the contrasting ideas of the conservative and the radical, the latter being brought on by the French Revolution and the age of Enlightenment, that took place prior to her writing the novel in 1813. In her novel, Austen...
In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, set in the 1600s, it depicts King Lear’s battle as he tries to preserve his reputation and his innocence before his unfortunate demise. Meanwhile in the novel, A Thousand Acres, written by Jane Smiley, it revisits this classic tragedy through Smiley’s take on the modern-day interpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear....
King Lear, much like all of Shakespeare’s plays, has been a cause for controversy from an editorial standpoint. The existence of both the Quarto version (published in 1608, still in Shakespeare’s lifetime) and the publication of the Folio (posthumously in 1623) has created a divide. As we do not have Shakespeare’s original manuscripts, this has...
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How William Golding used Jack in “Lord of the Flies” as an object of fear and manipulation to take control on the island. Why would William Golding use Jack as that object of fear and manipulation? At the beginning of the story, we could identify how jack had a domineering personality and did not want...
It can be argued that a communist economy and equal opportunities for all genders will lead us one step closer to a Utopia. One way to reach out to people around the globe in achieving a visionary place in which everything is perfect, is through literature. Literature is one of the most effective ways to...
In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brunte, the quote “Linton is all I have to love in the world, and though you have done what you could to make him hateful to me, and me to him, you cannot make us hate each other. And I defy you to hurt him when I am...
In the novel Great Expectations, Pip’s life is all about becoming better than he is for someone who will never appreciate or care for him. He creates these expectations of what his life will be based off a lie that Miss Havisham allows and encourages him to believe. When Pip was a young boy he...
• Introduction Pride and prejudice is profoundly concerned with love and is deemed by many to be Jane Austen’s most famous book. In this book, she emphasizes the romantic courtship and goes through it in depth. She explains her point of view about true love by making her characters fall in love. Various characters represent...