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.
Abstract Women in the nineteenth century did not have much choice regarding their future. Abiding by the laws of primogeniture, women could not inherit property and had to depend on marriage for sustenance. Thus, they could either get married or become a governess in a...
Introduction: The Iliad is an epic poem studied by many in multiple areas of research. The epic holds many themes such as pride, morality, compassion, warfare, etc. However, one that contributes to them all is the role of fate. It is after much analyzing and...
As a woman reader, we often believe that our lives and experiences are stories which we create. Our judgement and belief that we create and conduct the stories of our lives, gives us a setting for living our lives as well as for perusing and...
Woolf is recognised as a prominent writer in modernist literature as well as a leading figure of 20th century literary feminism. Indeed, critic, Elaine Showalter writes that Woolf was one of the first female authors to capture the ‘fitful, fretful rhythm of women’s daily lives’...
Introduction: Society is necessary in the world. This is because society is such an important part of our world, because without it, there would be chaos. If there is no society, then there is nothing set in place to tell people how they should act...
Relationships can change your life, they can make or break you. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby represents instability of love and desire. Love, desire, rumours and the truth can be difficult for one to handle. Everyone seems to want love, but do they know...
The 1920’s, also known as the “Roaring Twenties”, was a time for change, success, and traditional/cultural change. This was also known as the “Jazz Age”, or simply a time of youth, wealth, freedom, partying, and self-indulgence. During this time, people rejected trad. moral standards and...
Introduction Every story has a setting that indicates a place and time. The context of a setting can enable a story to do more than just exist in a location and period of time. The setting can also portray occurrences by using symbols. One salient...
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic who was best known for his poetry and short stories which was mainly his take on mystery and horror. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts and was the second child...
In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte illustrates that an individual’s character signifies more than their class standing. Jane Eyre, the novel’s protagonist, personally experiences multiple transitions between economic statuses providing her insight on the integrity of the people she comes across. In mid-nineteenth century...
In his lecture regarding Joseph Conrad’s Novella ‘Heart of Darkness’ in 1975, Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe states that whilst the novel has been discussed in great lengths over the years, that its ‘obvious racism has not, and that it is high time that it was’....
Fifth century ancient Greece, a time when society was dominated by men and women hidden away in the shadows of men. Publicly, women had no life. Women were given restricted rules in society under the rule of men, such as listen to their husbands and...
Book analysis Even though Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may seem like a lighthearted and fun novel about the wild adventures of a boy and his new friend and fellow runaway Jim, Mark Twain wrote the book to inform and open the eyes of the American...
King Lear, is a play written by Shakespeare, any critic will attest to how thoughtfully this piece of art was contrived. However, many unwaveringly argue that this play is to be described as a tragedy, nothing more and nothing less. On the other hand, some...
The novel Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, tells a story that uses animals to illustrate the story of the rule that Joseph Stalin implemented on the Soviet Union. The writing made him unpopular because he wrote the story as it was in real life....
Two poems can sound so alike and mirror each other almost identically, but mean completely different when taken into account the context in which the respective poems were written in. When Walt Whitman wrote his poem “Songs of Myself” in 1852 at its earliest edition,...
1984 is a dystopian novel based on the horrors of World War II to create a warning about the fate of humankind. In the novel, 1984, George Orwell crafts a text that can be read and interpreted by two different readers: through the eyes of...
The Tell-tale Heart is probably the most iconic short story of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story is either approached simplistically as a horror story, encompassing some paranormal features, or, from a more modernist perspective, as a complex psychological portrait of a disturbed unnamed...
I’m not acquainted enough with the matter to debate the issue itself, but if there are “Protagonists” and “Villains” we must also additionally contemplate that “good” and “bad” should have meant essentially Different things when the epic was written than they are doing to us...