Essays on English Literature

H.G Wells is known for his wide variety of political writings, his novels and stories, and his very committed stance as a socialist. John Partington wrote about Wells’s political stance as a socialist and how it helped with the “abolition of class barriers’,” and helped “free competition between individuals in society regardless of their social...

Everybody likes to escape from the real world. Some find it difficult while others live in their imagination. This imaginative dreamworld lifestyle is best escaped to within the fantasy genre. Another description of fantasy, is any work that contains magic or unrealistic settings, normally set in an alternate universe, or involving mythical creatures and supernatural...

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...

For my essay, I explored the major and minor sacrifices that took place in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. I compared how the sacrifices the characters make are similar to each other in both the novel and the play. They are similar in that someone...

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...

Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese- writer, portrays a cloned protagonist, Kathy, reminiscing about her childhood at Hailsham and her adolescence in his novel, Never Let Me Go. Not only is the novel’s backdrop settled on fictional England with cloning milieu but also the narrator, Kathy, is notably subject to her memory of the past in which...

When Michael Henchard sells his wife and child at a state fair he feels in instantly regretful and vows to become sober to make up for his wrongdoings. Henchard often looks back to this moment throughout Thomas Hardy’s novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge. This story is about a series of mistakes that the main character...

I greatly enjoy reading books when I have the free time. One of the biggest series I had gotten into around middle school time was the “Twilight Series,” so you could imagine the excitement I had when I had found out that the series was going to be made into a film! In my personal...

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K Rowling is a very magical novel with a wonderful plot. The novel takes place in Britain from 1991 to 1992. We follow a preteen boy named Harry though this book. He is tall and skinny and has green eyes. He also has long shaggy hair that usually...