In a writers essay, one can cover a specific piece of literature or the entire creation of a given writer. In such essays, students identify themes, motifs, symbols, key messages, stylistic devices, describe or compare characters, their traits and personal conflicts, reveal personal reactions, their interpretation and attitude towards the ...Read More
In a writers essay, one can cover a specific piece of literature or the entire creation of a given writer. In such essays, students identify themes, motifs, symbols, key messages, stylistic devices, describe or compare characters, their traits and personal conflicts, reveal personal reactions, their interpretation and attitude towards the written piece. When focusing on the entire creation of chosen writers, the typical characteristics of their style are uncovered along with the unique and original elements that set it apart. Additionally, the sources of inspiration, the influences, the evolution in time are analyzed. Review the essay samples below on certain writers and their works – pay attention to the topics, content organization, approaches to writing, etc.
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. When she was younger she developed a strong moral. She spent most of her time in life working on social causes. In the late 1830s she became a teacher. In the mid 1840s her and her...
The transition movement that took place between the 14th and 17th century in Italy is known as the Renaissance time or by definition “rebirth”. The philosophy that took place in the period is one of the humanism or the focus on the human being. One...
Charles Dickens’, Oliver Twist, recounts the tale of Oliver Twist, an orphan boy born in a workhouse. He spends the first nine years in a home and is then transferred to the workhouse where his mother gave birth to him and died soon after. At...
There is much evidence in the play that Hamlet deliberately feigned fits of madness in order to confuse and disconcert the king and his attendants. His avowed intention to act “strange or odd” and to “put an antic disposition on” is not the only indication....
The novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a fiction piece set in the 1920s in the United States. The novel heavily revolves around the idea of the “American Dream” just after World War One (WW1) where there was a general belief that...
Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely...
From the very title of this historical fiction novel, Things Fall Apart, composed by Chinua Achebe, it foreshadows the tragedy which is triggered by the tragic hero. Defined by Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, a tragic hero is a character who is of noble stature...
Both The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher are great examples of how Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer born in 1809, uses the first person narration style of writing. When reading both short stories, it is very clear that the...
Teenage love is hard to handle, you don’t think right and you will do anything to be with your true love. Juliet’s parents, Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet, are at fault for their daughter’s death and her lover’s. Parents usually get in the way of...
The debate between Arminians and Calvinists has been going on for over 400 years and has caused some numerous divisions in churches, friend-groups, and even families. At the center of this argument is the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity, the initial letter of the famous...
Introduction Tertullian was a Christian theologian and a foremost critic of Rome’s efforts to persecute Christians. Tertullian lived in a time where Christians were commonly persecuted by the Romans simply for not conforming to the “norms” of the empire. Tertullian believes Christians should denounce Greek...
Tertullian vs. Clement of Alexandria In the articles of Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria it is found that both men adhere to the Christian religion but disagree about the essence of Greek philosophy and learning in accordance to Christianity. Tertullian was a native to Carthage...
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem “The Blessed Damozel” is full of religious symbolism. There is talk of saints, and the poem itself takes place in heaven. But underneath the religious symbolism is a deep sensuality, that makes one wonder if the “white rose of Mary’s gift”...
All human beings are made up of certain strengths and weaknesses, and in the short stories The Masque of The Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawerence and The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross, each author treats the subject of...
Blake and Yeats Vision of the Apocalypse William Blake and William Butler Yeats both reflected on the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ in their art and poetry. Yeats takes a darker look at the second coming, comparing the Christian age he was in...
Tom Sawyer lived with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the fence the next day, as a punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of...
Death can have different meanings to a person. Sometimes people get joy from it and most of the times they do not. Most widows would respond in a sorrowful way towards their husband’s death, but Louise responded in a untroubled mannered. The main character gets...
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, suicide is an prevalent and all-consuming theme throughout the play. Beginning with the murder of his father, Hamlet is the main character who contemplates the thought of suicide many times throughout the play. Hamlet weighs the advantages of leaving his miserable...
The Tell-Tale Heart is a story that is about a man that kill a person because of his fear of eye color, he always see him in the night, when he were going to kill him he wake up and start cry but the narrator...