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.
Explore Miller's presentation of Rodolpho in the play One of the ways Arthur Miller presents Rodolpho is by his opening line, "This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!" This line highlight that Rodolpho is...
A Tale For Children Gabriel Garcia-Marquez created a brilliant short story, once which forces his reading audience to suspend disbelief and understand a fairy tale of the modern era. The title of the work is is labelled as a children’s tale would be, “A Very...
The Inclination Longing for the luxuries you could carelessly afford, supplying your time and support to everyone else so there is none left for yourself, not having to question if a person will assess your decisions, and being able to enjoy yourself once every blue...
Most readers associate William Shakespeare with classic iambic pentameter, but Shakespeare’s plays often consist of many different writing styles. According to Kim Ballard, “A mix of these two compositional forms is unusual in much of literature, but commonplace in the plays of Shakespeare and other...
If there was no such thing as sympathy, empathy, or love in our world, it would be a hard place to live. If there was no hard law or reason in our world, it would be a crazy place to live. Neither of these worlds...
Dreams, we all have them. Whether they be about the love of our life or our greatest fear, when we fall asleep, we lose the ability to tell the difference between reality and fiction. It’s why we actually feel like we’re falling off a building...
The play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” written by William Shakespeare, is full of many wonderful and humorous scenes and themes throughout the play including ideas like real vs. fake love, gender power, and real vs. imaginary life. Act 3 in this play definitely has a...
Introduction Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Gabriel Marquez’s story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” are very different in nature, but share a common theme throughout. This theme is the depravity of humans, and in the context of...
Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol (1843) and Wilkie Collins’s novel The Moonstone (1868), both show different messages about their author’s view of ethics. The Victorian era was an era when the ethical view of the world – and the people in it –was undergoing...
Have you ever tried stepping up, making a change in your own life? Everyone is scared of taking chances and making differences in their lives. Scrooge, the main character of Charles Dickenss novel, The Christmas Carol, is no different. Scrooge is an old man who...
A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens
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By utilising foundational fixtures of their worlds, George Orwell’s mid-Twentieth Century novel 1984 and Fritz Lang’s early-Twentieth Century film Metropolis warp what is known to impart uncomfortable truths. In light of the Cold War’s utilitarianism and the Weimar Republic’s economic downfall, both Orwell and Lang...
As I read 1984, I began to think about actual totalitarian regimes. Most bear a striking resemblance to the world of Winston Smith…that of London, Airstrip One. George Orwell’s life coincided with the rise of some of the most truly terrifying totalitarian nations, such as...
In George Orwell’s book 1984 he talks about the “Obliteration of Self” in Oceania’s Society. We as Americans have the first amendment which entitles us to the freedom of speech, religion, press, petition and assembly. These five freedoms give American citizens the option to embrace...
The arguably most defining symbol of the novel “1984” by George Orwell is Newspeak. Newspeak was the new language established in Oceania and the code by which every one of its citizens lived by; this symbol reveals how when language and communication are restricted and...
George Orwell’s novel 1984 warns of a totalitarian state in the future. The totalitarian state, Oceania, under the control of the Party and its leader Big Brother, poses a society where the government is always right and where the people have no freedom of speech...
As texts are analytically compared, their differing contextual concerns are highlighted and therefore enhancing one’s understanding of the humanitarian issues of power and corruption within a socio-political framework. Fritz Lang’s modernist silent film Metropolis explores humanity’s tendency to become corrupt after being exposed to the...
A dystopia is an imagined place where everything is unpleasant or corrupt. It is the opposite of utopia; a perfect world. The idea of a dystopian world has always been a common topic in literature. In the latter half of the twentieth century, two strikingly...
Upton Sinclair was born in a small row house in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 20, 1878. Sinclair was the only child of an alcoholic liquor salesman, Upton Beall Sinclair, and a strict, strong-willed mother, Priscilla Harden. During his childhood he was raised on the edge...
Introduction In this essay, I will be exploring ideas surrounding an “underworld” in The Jungle. The Jungle was written in 1906 by the American novelist, Upton Sinclair, to show the world the evils of the American capitalist system. Sinclair documents the journey of an immigrant...