Literature

Roderick Usher is a complicated character who seems to be both physically and mentally unstable; on top of that he is also terrified. What is he so afraid of that…

“‘Why? ’ asked her companion. ‘Why do you love him when you ought not to? ’ (109)” In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the main character Edna Pontellier…

What aching irony it is to love so wholly the idea of independence and have it stripped from you not a minute after you’ve tasted its sweet song. To have…

“For The Fallen” tells of the First World War, and the people who gave their lives to fight for their country. The poem begins by saying how proud England is…

The Harp in the South portrays a world of struggles, hardship and deception that attracts lonely misfits. The mini-series by Anthony Buckley and based on the novel by Ruth Park…

People’s attitudes towards war changed as the war progressed and this is shown in the war poetry which reported about war to the civilians back in Britain. At first these…

In Both the War Photographer and Stealing By Carol Anne Duffy the occupations of the narrator play a leading role even the titles are names of the occupations they both…

Sebastian Faulks presents Stephen Wraysford’s mental state in a variety of different ways, these different notions to Stephen’s psyche in part one of the novel gives the reader a deeper…

In ‘Dirge Of The Dead Sisters’ and ‘War’, Edgar Wallace and Rudyard Kipling express different views on war. Kipling’s focus is on the Role Of woman whereas Wallace shows the…

‘The English Patient’, by Michael Ondaatje, is a work of historical fiction set primarily in a small villa in the hills near Florence during World War II. The story revolves…

War and the idea of war had, throughout history, been associated with honour and heroism. Before World War 1, war poetry had reflected the opinion that all soldiers were to…

Before World War One, war was seen as glorious and honourable. These attitudes are reflected in the phrase Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mari, translated this means that it…

The basic, overall purpose of ‘The Soldier’ is to encourage English people to sign up to fight in the war. It focused on the apparent aspects, experiences and events relating…

This essay will look at three poems from the period before and during the First World War, each giving different impressions it. Fall In by Harold Begbie, a journalist, author,…

For my coursework I have chosen three poems. ” The Field-Mouse” by Gillian Clarke, “War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Thistles” by Ted Hughes. I chose those poems because…

Since the world began the presence of anger between people presented war as the only answer to solve disputes. The history of our country, as well as the other countries…

Both Pope and Mackintosh have used wartime propaganda in their poems to get across civilian attitudes about the war. Pope uses phrases very similar to the catchy propaganda that encouraged…

This section of the book is an extremely descriptive yet emotional account of what happened at the front line. Faulks is able to describe the horror of what happened in…

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-1862), the talented author of many highly original stories, lived for 21 years. His stories illustrate in a vivid and disturbing detail, a period of American history,…

The usage of symbols and portents in The Black Cat is alone to the Gothic genre. The rubric The Black Cat is symbolic in itself as a black cat frequently…