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.
During his lectures in the United States in 1867, Matthew Arnold penned his poem "Dover Beach." This work is a free verse poem devoid of a specific rhyme scheme, comprising four stanzas encompassing 37 lines. Arnold's "Dover Beach" centers on an individual gazing out at...
Edgar Allan Poe keeps his tradition of crafting beautiful gloaming poetry demonstrated in “For Anne.” The author portrays Anne as a symbol of earthbound love and mourning. Using her to display keeping the memory of loved ones alive. How death can be easy but living...
Would you want to live in an era where you have no privacy, truth, or friendships? This is the way things are in 1984; there are cameras keeping an eye on you and the truth is turned into lies everywhere. Then there is the thing...
In general, mankind tends to hide their emotions and moves to shield themselves or someone else to keep their discrete pursuits private. In the tragedy of Hamlet, almost all of the fundamental characters have lied to every different to shield themselves. The lies may also...
Written by Chaucer in the 14th century, The Canterbury Tales is an incredibly cogent piece that analyzes Middle Age English society. From the hypocritical to the horrifying, the tales are told by Chaucer himself, as well as several exaggerated character. One notable aspect of The...
The 1920’s was a decade that celebrated the end of World War I and was centralised around the prosperity of the economy and the individual. Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1925) is at its core, a tragic love story that embodies society’s manifestation...
Introduction Religion, a multifaceted and intricate concept, often encompasses a wide spectrum of perspectives, interpretations, and values, even within the confines of a single faith. In Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre,” the author delves into the diverse interpretations of Christianity, employing them as a lens...
On the surface, Jane Austen’s Emma reads as a simple account of its protagonist Emma Woodhouse’s emotional development. Through the course of the novel, Emma comes to realize the folly of her arrogance and cluelessness. Emma’s realization of her shortcomings allows her to correct her...
Pride and Prejudice are the characteristics that have been expressed in this book by the author to show how people behave towards others because of their behaviors and how the behaviors change in the end. Prejudice is a characteristic of unfair feeling towards something or...
The story of Hamlet is based on the information the ghost gave to Hamlet regarding his father’s death. He told Hamlet that his father was killed by his own brother and that Hamlet had the responsibility of taking his father’s revenge from his uncle. Acting...
There are many things that can bring out the beast that lies inside us all. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a novel about how a group of schoolboys survive on a deserted island, stranded with no adults after their plane has crashed....
When it comes to the topic of hate and deception in 1984 by George Orwell most of us will readily agree that is a totalitarian society run by the leader known as Big Brother. They monitor and control every aspect of its people from physical...
Throughout the Crucible many characters were faced with internal and external conflict that resulted in their need to surmount difficulties. The characters had different conflicts but were all sparked by one event, the Salem witch trials. In 1692, in Salem, Massachusates there was a growing...
Introduction Throughout the play Othello, Shakespeare has managed to portray most of the female characters, including Emilia, Desdemona, and Bianca, as bold, forthcoming, and strong, paving the way for the representation of women in literature. Women’s advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said, “I would have...
Robert Frost is admired not only for his world-renowned poem, “Road Not Taken,” but also for his incredible symbolism and deep interpretation of life through nature. Written in the 1920s, “Road Not Taken” and “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” focus on the images...
Homer, the author of The Odyssey, created a hero with negative attributes named Odysseus in his epic poem. The epic hero, Odysseus, is trying to get back home after being away for 17 years. During his expedition, the poem portrays Odysseus’s traits, whether they’re flaws...
‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ is Hemingway’s paean to a kind of existential skepticism, an investigation of the significance, or deficiency in that department, of presence. It plainly communicates the way of thinking that underlies the Hemingway ordinance, harping on subjects of death, vanity, aimlessness, and...
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life” – Virginia Woolf, one of the most eminent writers of her time, during her life she suffered the loss of her parents as well as her siblings which led her to lose control of her mind, her mental...
Edgar Allan Poe’s work as a writer has always shown darkness, madness, and macabre. Poe’s life was plagued from his childhood with the same reflections that are seen in his stories. Poe consistently shows the macabre and insanity in the horror short story, “The Fall...