Essays on English Literature

Traditionally, as discussed previously in lectures and essays, E. M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India has been analyzed and unscrambled by its pioneer-like consciousness of empire’s colonialism via reflecting imperialistic and colonial ideologies. This way of understanding of this consciousness of colonialism could easily be detected throughout the book’s various major and minor characters...

Ulysses and Victor are both very noble and intelligent men whose hubris leads them to their death. They are striving to go beyond that of why is know possible for humanity. There over confidence comes from their abilities to break through to the unknown in nature’s capabilities. Ulysses and Victor were striving for greatness and...

The short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl and the short story “The Possibility of Evil” show us how two female protagonists commit evil acts upon people. Which character is worse? Both authors discuss how two women commit malicious acts towards other people. However, while in Lamb to the Slaughter the main protagonist,...

  In relation to Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley, there are many points of similarity between both reality and the stories portrayed in Shelley’s novel and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Coleridge’s literary work has performed as an out-of-this-world supply of influence for Shelley and is thought in her life. Fascinatingly, Frankenstein...

Robert Browning, the 2nd is an English poet and playwright from the 1800s. Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in a middle-class suburb in London. He started his early career making long poems. Browning was always inspired to write poems by his father. His father, Robert Browning, the 1st, had a library only available...

In the time when silanization was just truly forming, there were only really four places in life and most people stayed in they were born into place. In Great Expectations Pip, the main character was one of the Fortunate few that changed there place in life. When the term place is used it is referring...

George Orwell was the author of The Animal Farm novel, which was published in 1945. The novel was written after the Russian Revolution and the novel included some humor and ridicule. It holds many ideas, themes and political issues. One of most of them is power. Power Having power, is the ability to change people’s...

In George Orwell’s “1984”, we can look at it through a variety of critical lenses. There are examples and appearances of Marxism, feminism, existentialism, freudianism, and historical criticism. Marxism appears in this novel in the form of inner-Party members, and the lower Party members and citizens. In the story, “Winston addresses the Marxist ideal of...

   “Jane Eyre” is a true captivation of the Victorian era and its time’s social standing. The novel clearly appreciates the role of women and recognizes the significance of the journey of a woman to find her true identity and truly be seen as an equal to those around her. The novel’s plot is based...

Religion has always been one of the major socializing institutions, resolute in instilling norms and values to individuals with a view to maintaining order in society. At times, since the beginning of time, religion was required to gain solace and peace, hoping for protection from the unknown. However, over time, the same concept of religion...