Animal Farm, an allegory by George Orwell, echoes real historical figures and ideas about the Russian Revolution. The story about a group of animals that overthrow their farmer, Mr. Jones, is actually about the Communist Revolution that took place in 1917. Orwell brilliantly uses his characters and storyline to represent the events and support his…
How Are Women Presented in An Inspector Calls? In An Inspector Calls, J. B. Priestley highlights socialist ideas and ideals through the representation and treatment of women in the play. The upper-class women within 1912 society are shown to be respected and wealthy, but obedient to their husbands. However, the women of the lower classes…
Dickens presents Joe as the opposite of what pip yearns to be, serving as Pip’s reminder of what he hates in himself, slowly driving an underlying conflict between the two. Joe represents the common man, with a “dullness’’ and ordinality that Pip develops to be more and more intolerant of, as his aspirations come into…
Texts which offer new insights into the anomalies and inconsistencies in human behaviour and motivations. Indeed, through this examination, the audience may glean an insight into the author’s manipulation of such human behaviour and motivation, prompting the audience to be made aware of their behaviour. Through an exploration of Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, the dangers…
We have all seen villains. We have all seen heroes. Heroes and villains make up just about every story in the world. Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible,is no different. One of the main characters and antagonists in the play is Abigail Williams. Demonstrated in words and actions, Abigail is a villain who shows the ability to…
In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 19, we are presented with various themes mainly circulating around the characteristics of the apostrophe of Time, which is personified throughout the poem. The sonnet is split into three quatrains, with the first one attacking Time and its all-consuming nature. The destructive ability of Time is a major theme; throughout the…
Lady Mary Wroth portrays the theme of love in the sonnet Song through the use of various literary techniques and the structural devices. Firstly, the poem centers around the personification of love, giving it human attributes by comparing it to a child. Wroth compares a man’s love to a child through the extended metaphor that…
Chapter 1 – Story of the Door Summary: Utterson and Enfield are out for a walk when they pass a strange-looking door. Enfield recalls a story involving the door. In the early hours of one winter morning, he says, he saw a man trampling on a young girl. He pursued the man and brought him…
Fear Stevenson establishes a link between the urban landscape of Victorian London and the mysterious yet horrifying events surrounding Hyde Nightmarish imagery – dark streets twist and coil, lie draped in fog: sinister landscape that befits crime that takes place Hyde is an urban creature that is completely at home in this terrifying environment Science…
In Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens, the most noteworthy relationship is the relationship between Pip, the protagonist of the novel, and his father-figure Joe, the humble blacksmith. Throughout the course of the text, this relationship evolves from a warm, brotherly relationship, forged in the fires of adversity, to a distant and fractured one, caused…
Celia Foote represents a woman who, in the eyes of 1960s Southern society, has failed in her primary roles as a female and is thus marginalised because of that. Through her lack of skill in everyday house duties such as, cooking and cleaning, Celia is proven to be pushed aside and ridiculed by majority of…
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) fought on the western front in World War I (also called the Great War, 1914–18). Owen was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and when discharged he was sent back to the war front. He died shortly before the end of the War on the battlefield. Structure: Stanza one is largely written using regular iambic…
‘The Manhunt’ is read by Laura, wife of Eddie Beddoes. Eddie served as a peace-keeper in Bosnia before being discharged due to injury and depression. Structure: The poem starts with a series of couplets and then the rhyme scheme falters to being mostly unrhymed. This could highlight the disruption the war brought to the couple’s…
It is possible to argue that the Tsarist regime was strong in 1914 because of the introduction of reforms under both Alexander III and Nicholas II. Economically too, there was significant growth and development. On the other hand, some historians have argued that the Tsarist regime was already doomed by 1914 as this development came…
Emma 1996 is an adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma”, one of her most celebrated novels. This movie presents before us a picture of Emma Woodhouse who is beautiful, rich, young and has a lot to her own disposition. A warm and loving portrait of a young woman becoming her own, guided by a circle of…
Cartesian Dualism is a system of thought where the mind and body are separate entities only interacting with one another by way of language. In this paper the concept of Cartesian Dualism will be applied and analyzed in “The Hollow Men” By T.S Eliot. Here is the first example “We whisper together/Are quiet and meaningless”…
“The Pakistani Bride” is one of the modern novels written by Bapsi Sidhwa. INTRODUCTION OF THE WRITER: Bapsi Sidhwa is a Pakistani-American novelist who writes in English and is a resident of the United States. Bapsi Sidhwa was born on 11th August, 1938. At the tender age of nineteen, Bapsi fell deeply for a well-known businessman in Bombay and tied…
Act I Questions Match characters: Which characters use the words “fair” and “foul” in scenes i and iii? Why would these characters be connected? In the beginning of the play, in Scene I three witches are talking about Macbeth and towards the end of this scene they say, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair…
Lamb to the Slaughter is a story about the murder of Mr. Patrick Maloney, a police official who chooses to leave his pregnant wife, Mary. His pregnant wife, in shock, murders him. In this story, Mrs. Mary Maloney is placed in the setting as a housewife. By choosing to leave Mary, Patrick places her in…
Big Jesse Little Jesse is a story about a man named Jesse, his separated wife Corina and his son Jesse. In the story, readers can see the struggle that Jesse goes through in attempting a relationship with both Corina and his son. It is observable the way that Corina makes Jesse out to seem like…