Essays on Literature

In the play, ‘An Inspector Calls’ By J.B Priestley, the audience are encouraged to find Mrs Birling unappealing due to her incredibly cold-hearted actions throughout the play. Sybil represents the wealthier, privileged classes who see themselves as the working classes moral superior. At the beginning of act 1, Mrs Birling is introduced as ‘his wife’,...

Both Williams and Ishiguro use the theme of the past in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’ to show how individuals can retreat back into their memories, creating a nostalgic and reminiscent tone. For Ishiguro, he explores emotions in his 2005 novel focusing on the sadness of the human condition as well as...

The past is unquestionably a key topic reviewed by both Williams and Ishiguro in their novels “The Glass Menagerie” and “Never Let Me Go”. Both author’s use of dialogue presents this act of looking back as means of reflecting how it shapes their character’s future events and actions. Though in some cases, the past is...

“Never Let Me Go” and “The Glass Menagerie” can be seen to be products of the society they were created in. In fact, the dystopian novel presents the past as an escape from an inhumane reality, while the WW2 play presents a poverty stricken society during the Great Depression. Ishiguro could be trying to explore...

Written by sisters Anne and Emily Bronte, “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” and “Wuthering Heights” are Victorian Gothic novels which centralise around an obsessive or otherwise destructive relationship. Coined the “three weird sisters” by poet Ted Hughes, an intentional summoning of Macbeth’s blasted heath to Haworth parsonage, Emily, Anne, and sister Charlotte (Jane Eyre) are...

Dickens used the growth of his characters in Great Expectations, particularly Pip, in relation to others to write about social reform, and most effectively illustrated this by using the first-person narrative style. In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens has written a social commentary using the development of his characters to illustrate his message. With Great Expectations...

Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ are both texts that present gender in similar ways but with varying effects. This is often through the use of characterisation, for example the contrast between traditional and unconventional gender roles. They also look at the theme of power and how that may lead...

Brilliance, prestige, and excellence. These three words describe education. Education is the omen of the 21st century and is the premise for critical, rational, and logical thinking. Overall, it has eminently played a huge role on the development of the 21st century. Education means a lot in everyone’s life as it eases our learning, knowledge,...

Nicholas Charles Sparks – His Incredible Story Many people around the world enjoy reading romance novels. For Nicholas Sparks, writing them is his passion. Sparks is known around the world for his popular stories about love, small towns in North Carolina, and the likeable characters. He enjoys writing romance novels, but is reluctant to giving...

In our society, each person faces psychological pressure from their environment, whether it is sheer manipulation or academic pressure. As one reads, they are bound to pick up on the similar pressures that the characters in Dickens’ literary society suffer through. In Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, characters are psychologically programmed by physical barriers that develop...