Literature

“The Seduction” and “Cousin Kate” were written a century apart, but both explore the theme of false love. “Cousin Kate” is about a cottage maiden who is ‘lured’ by the…

In this essay I am going to compare “Cousin Kate,” written by Christina Rossetti in 1860 and “The Seduction,” written by Eileen Mc Auley in 1980. “Cousin Kate” and “The…

Throughout both plays of “Hedda Gabler” and “The Father” one may feel that Laura and Hedda are both evil, manipulative characters, however in certain ways one may also sense that…

Tennessee Williams led an unusual and for the most part miserable life, never being able to fit in with the boundaries of society. He portrays his feelings about society and…

In this essay I am going to look at and compare two poems called ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Willing Mistress’ which are both poems about sex and love as the…

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, set in St. Louis, America during the depression of the 1930s is an influential and stirring play. The play is formed with four characters….

Tess of d’urbevilles is a moving novel about challenging relationships and moral struggles. Tess of d’urbevilles was published in 1891 in the imaginary “Wessex” which is based on Dorset. Hardy’s…

Mr Briggs is a very complicated character to work out. Both him and Mrs Kay are very different. Mrs Kay is a very caring person and very easy going where…

It has often been said that Our Day out belongs to the Genre of Social Realism. Willy Russell uses situations that are to life and that seem realistic to write…

Old Mrs Chundle is written by Thomas Hardy and tells the story of how a young Curate who just moved to a village. Whilst he is out painting he comes…

Hardy includes nature into his stories almost as an extra person. His writing is rich with the sharpness of the weather, the countryside and the creatures of his home town…

Setting plays a very important role in Hardy’s “Tess of the D’urbervilles”, and acts as a literary device that Hardy uses to further plot and reveal characters. The novel is…

Alan Bleasdale created “Boys from the Black stuff”, a 5 part very touching story about unemployment in the 1980’s in the heart of Liverpool. One of the four stories, “Yosser’s…

I am going to look at four poem; Hitcher (Simon Armitage); My Last Duchess (Robert Browning); Education For Leisure (Carol Ann Duffy) and The Laboratory as all these poems express…

In his collection of monologues, talking heads, Alan Bennett explores the themes of isolation and loneliness through the characters of Doris in ‘a Cream cracker under the Settee’ and Susan…

Britain in the 1920s and 30s was a very politically and economically unstable place, and many people had concerns about the international tension and aftermath of the war, especially in…

The production is introduced to us at the start with a slow, lonely atmosphere. This is portrayed through the soft music, and the actual layout of the scene. My aim…

The poem is about a young Caribbean woman whose culture is contigently consumed by that of her surroundings. At the time of the hurricane she felt destitute, vulnerable and could…

Brave New World’s society is very different to our own for instance. People are made in bottles and conditioned to do predestined work. People have no family, marriage doesn’t exist,…

After 30 years of a successful career of film, theatre, satire and television, Alan Bennett broke new dramatic ground with his series of monologues “Talking Heads”. It was a new…