Essays on English Literature

Imperialism In A Christmas Carol

The successes of Empire, while it lasted, were largely due in part to their widespread imperialistic tendencies around the world. Although many citizens turned a blind eye to the injustices wrought upon those that were colonized, there is evidence of Britain’s imperialistic nature captured within the literature of the time. The ideas of imperialism can...
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Feminism Within Wuthering Heights

Set in the Romantic period, an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte in 1847, broke boundaries for females worldwide. During this time and many years before that, many people rejected the way women were characterized in this novel, especially...
1505 Words 3 Pages

Animal Farm: Characters Brief Analysis

 Animal Farm is a novel written by George Orwell in 1944. It is an allegory of the 1917 Russian Revolution, led by Joseph Stalin. Throughout the book, we are introduced to many characters, and no matter how insignificant they may seem, each and every one represents a person or group of people from the Russian...
1467 Words 3 Pages

A Christmas Carol: Critique Of The Victorian Era Society

The Victorian Era has been appraised as the peak years of the Great Empire, but with such success came with many underlying faults. During the same period, Charles Dickens, the author of the well-known novella, The Christmas Carol, created a story about a cold-hearted old man named Ebenezer Scrooge who learned about different themes and...
1590 Words 3 Pages

Madness In Shakespeare's King Lear

A definition of madness can be “mental delusion or eccentric behavior arising from it,” however madness itself can seem to be completely interpretive, as Emily Dickinson wrote that “much madness in its divinest sense- to a discerning eye.” Characters often seem to showcase an apparent madness, one that is completely misunderstood, but ultimately ends up...
1276 Words 3 Pages

Everlasting Love In Wuthering Heights

A story filled with terror, abuse, mystery, gloom, death, and most admirably love, Wuthering Heights is a classic novel and one of the greatest pieces in Gothic Literature. As William Shakespeare once wrote “The course of love never did run smooth.” (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1) These honest words are the perfect introduction to...
1186 Words 3 Pages

Frankenstein: Creator Versus His Creation

In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, a conflict that is as old as life itself develops over the course of the story; parent versus his own child, or in this case creator versus his creation, in a strive towards reconciliation. Victor Frankenstein and his creation become entangled in this fight, as the creation seeks its creator,...
889 Words 2 Pages

The Tragedy Of Othello And King Lear

The renaissance or golden age is the time during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth’s reign lasted from 1558 to 1633, where Queen Elizabeth occupied the throne after her sister, Mary, who was her half-sister died (John S. Morrill Stephen J. Greenblatt, 2019). Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which also ended the 16th century...
2796 Words 6 Pages
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