Essays on English Literature

If a child committed a crime against someone else, is the child culpable for his or her actions, or should the child’s parents be held responsible for failing to educate their child on what is right and wrong? The theme of individual responsibility appears throughout the entire book of Frankenstein; the lack of said responsibility...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 was released on November 19, 2010, by Warner Bros. Pictures as the seventh movie in the very popular eight movie series. The movie was directed by David Yates and produced by J.K. Rowling, the author of the beloved Harry Potter book series. The series as a whole...

In the short story, The Dead from the novel Dubliners by James Joyce, readers are led through a bustling, yet uniform, dinner party by, who I identify as the protagonist, Gabriel Conroy. He is an intelligent, impersonal, “cold-air” solitary man who is continually found present in his thoughts, rather than mentally present in the majority...

Out in cinemas May 10th, comes the most anticipated movie of the year, The Woman in Black. Directed by James Watkins and starring Britain’s most famous wizard, Daniel Radcliffe, this film is bursting the seams with tense and unsettling moments. Having been based on the chilling Novel by Susan Hill (1983), it brings the book...

The novel ‘The Time Machine’ is a science fiction novella. It introduces us to a very talented English scientist Time traveller. He was living in Richmond surrey in England. The novel starts with a view of a room in which Time traveller is talking to some of his friends. There was a dinner party going...

Aging is a part of life and something everyone experiences from the moment they are created to the moment they die. It is inevitable. However, despite the commonality and inevitability of getting older, there continues to be a lot of anxiety and stress that is associated with aging as well as many stereotypes and stigmas...

There are multiple interesting stories with different plots out there to read, but by far, as a lover of books, the one that has caught my attention the most is the whole Harry Potter series. From the romance, to death, to the out of book experience, this series is stunning in many ways. I do...

Theme: This novel is indirectly related to the Soviet Union which is made after Russian Revolution this union has conditions like this farm and the character Napoleon is Joseph Starlin. The major themes of the story are corruption and exploitation that how the inner circle of Nepoleon dominate over the other animal all pigs are...

Happiness and Sadness are two sensibilities that can dictate the life of a human. In Graham Green’s novel The End of the Affair, the protagonist Maurice Bendrix says, “the sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling tells us the story of Harry Potter’s sixsixth year at Hogwarts, the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry returns to Hogwarts for another year after a long summer in London with his muggle uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Dursley. As the prophecy says he...