Essays on Literature

Dicken’s is a master at using imagery to bring alive the characters and to help the reader form a vivid image of scenes; in the novel Great Expectations. He uses metaphors and other forms of comparison that help the reader associate and feel that they can touch, smell, hear and see the images that he...

In my essay I will be discussing and explaining several examples of art pieces that have been controversial within the artworld for their use of pre-existing works or objects. This practice can on one hand be considered fair use of appropriation whereas others consider it an infringement of copyright. Furthermore, I will also be looking...

Priestley explores responsibility through all the characters. His aim was to highlight that our actions always affect another person even if we think it doesn’t Priestley wanted a socio-political shift in the world as he wanted people to help build a better and caring society. In inspector calls there is a heavy use of anadiplosis...

An Inspector Calls by JBP is an unapologetically political play, which criticizes the past while suggesting hope for the future; the power is arguably used by Priestley as part of a wider argument on the benefits of socialism and the cruel consequences of capitalism. Power is presented through the characters of Mr. Birling and Inspector...

Abstract: This paper explores the impact of absurdism in Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot. Absurdism as a philosophy stands on the idea that the whole universe is irrational and meaningless and that the look for order brings the person into conflict with the universe. During the period of the two World Wars, the mass...

Dickens effectively uses settings in Great Expectations to emphasise his characters’ traits in order to make them come to life. This is an essential because thrilling characters meant further sales for Dickens. Houses appear to be a motif throughout the novel, and central to the effectiveness of Dickens’ characterisation. Dickens undoubtedly makes settings memorable, due...

In this essay, I am going to analyse The Crucible by playwright Arthur Miller from a Marxist perspective and the ideological state apparatus (ISA). Moreover, I will discuss how the play could be staged and the costumes characters would wear and why. The Crucible was written as an allegory to make a point about the...

Tennessee Williams explores the fantasy and reality in the play through dramatising memory of the characters. Each character in the play struggles to retreat from their illusions as it is a place for comfort when reality is daunting. This pushes the family away from one another. Williams shows that Tom tries to escape reality with...

I have selected Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Virginia Wolff’s To the Lighthouse. In regards to Oroonoko, the Royal Slave by female author Aphra Behn is the first humanitarian English novel and actively opposes Slavery in a time when it was culturally accepted. The role of any narrator regardless of the narration type used is,...

Both ‘1984’ and ‘Brave New World’ are set in a dystopian future, within societies which are controlled, monitored and perfected by their government. George Orwell’s ‘1984’ explores how the government has the ability to alter the past in order to control society and the people within. Whereas in ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley, control...