Literature

Macbeth, a Shakespearean tragedy follows the journey of the protagonist Macbeth as he plots to assassinate King Duncan, after hearing a prophecy from the three witches. Shakespeare’s most powerful and…

In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est Owen conveys mental and the physical horror of the war by showing us and telling us the horror’s that he had to go…

Tennyson displays use of the method of imagery and poetry to enhance the effectiveness of the poem and to add to Lady of Shalott’s story.The beginning of the text establishes…

Wycherley’s play The Country Wife, like many restoration literatures are often seen as a reflection of the writer’s outlook on society at the time of writing because it includes characters…

The show opens with a blissful jazz ballad and with the curtains opening onto the stage and the camera panning onto the live studio audience. Next the host Mandar Nigdikar…

For this task, I chose “Tony Kytes: Arch Deceiver” by Thomas Hardy, and “Tickets, Please” by D. H. Lawrence. These short stories are excellent for comparison, as “Tony Kytes” is…

As we read through the novel ‘Tony Kytes’ (The Arch Deceiver) we got the impression that Tony Kytes is an attractive young man, iresstible to young woman. Toney is especially…

In Thomas Hardy’s- Tony Kytes, the Arch deceiver, he amuses the reader by allowing Tony Kytes to embarrass himself he does this by telling his three so-called girlfriends on his…

The two texts that I am going to be comparing are The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy written in the nineteenth century and The Seduction by Eileen McAuley written in…

‘The Outsiders’ is a story written by S. E Hinton in 1967, when she was only 17 years old. S. E Hinton wrote the story of a 14 year old…

‘The Withered Arm and Other Wessex Tales’ is set in Wessex, a fictional place in South West England, on Dorset. It is set in the mid 19th Century where there…

Over the past 150 years women’s rights and roles in society have changed considerably and with this, society’s attitudes towards women. The depiction of women in the stories I have…

I am going to asses two pieces of work one is called Tony Kytes the Arch-Deceiver, it is a short story written by Thomas Hardy. It is about a man…

This essay discusses four short stories that concern relationships. These four stories were written at different times and invite the comparison of the different relationships within them. These four short…

In this essay I will be considering the different ways that D. H. Lawrence, Raymond Carver and Edgar Allan Poe have used to get inside a character’s thoughts and feelings….

Persuasion is a very powerful type of language and means to make someone do something by argument, charm, insult, complements, etc. Persuasive language can be found in everyday life e.g….

In the play Pygmalion, my sympathies change between the two characters Higgins and Eliza, as the play progresses. Eliza seems the more likely of the two to feel sorry for…

In Medea by Euripides, Medea expresses her extreme anger and bitterness towards Jason after Jason visits her. Subsequently, the Women explain the complexities of love, making a distinction between a…

Thomas Hardy’s novel, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ links to nature and the earth through its characters throughout the plot. Hardy’s story is set in the fictional county of ‘Wessex’,…

‘The Signalman’, ‘The Red Room’ and ‘The Clubfooted Grocer’ were all written before 1914. During the time in which they were written, gothic literature was very popular. All three short…