Narrative

The opening to “The Great Gatsby” is undoubtedly effective as it successfully introduces both the main protagonists, Nick Carraway, a traditional and open minded narrator who comes from a “prominent,…

Over the last fifty years, since the release of On The Road in 1957, it has not been uncommon for critics to draw parallels between Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical novel and Fitzgerald’s…

This passage on page 36 Chapter three is Nick’s narration on Gatsby’s lifestyle. Gatsby has risen to having a lavish lifestyle in which parties are a weekly event compared to…

The play Romeo and Juliet was published in 1562, the play was inspired by the author Arthur Brooke who rote a narrative poem ‘the tragically history of Romeos and Juliet’,…

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…

There is an obvious struggle between nature and mankind although the tractor seems to be leaning more towards the side of nature. The fight continues with the progression of events….

For my poem write-up I will be writing about the two poems: “My Grandmother” and “At castle botterel”. Each poem is written about a particular part of the poet’s life,…

The story, ‘Snow Falling On Cedars,’ is unveiled through regular flashbacks from the perspective of both minor and major characters. Guterson has structured the novel in such a way that…

In the novella Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson wants to horrify his contemporaries and does this using physical, psychological and thematic horror. The story of an upper class Victorian…

The sequence that I am studying follows the daily tasks of Henry under the influence of drugs and paranoia. Throughout the scene, Martin Scorsese (Director) uses effective cinematography to portray…

I am looking at the above so that I can view a wide range of poems on a similar theme. This theme being the way in which childhood experiences can…

The two poems, “Stealing” by Carol Ann Duffy and “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, will be compared and contrasted on the ways that the poets reveal their narrator’s personalities and…

Charlotte Bronte’s narrative style for Jane Eyre is first person and this means that we see everything through her eyes and so what is written will have a bias, however,…

The novel “Jane Eyre ” written by Charlotte Bronte , is one of great love story tradition, in which Jane Eyre is clearly the heroine of the novel. She is…

The role of Postcolonial criticism is to question and ‘undermine universalist claims that great literature has a timeless and universal significance which disregards political, social, cultural and national differences thus…

Ghost stories have always been enticing to read, they originated in the Victorian Era. They usually present a message, and writers like Shakespeare used ghosts to create emotion in their…

The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast two ghost stories. The Signalman, a pre 20th century story by Charles Dickens and a post 20th century story, The…

Gothic novels were very popular in the late 18th century, early 19th century, and were characterised by an atmosphere of mystery horror and a sense of the unknown. Good examples…

The poems Havisham By Carol Ann Duffy and The Laboratory By Robert Downing both convey strong emotions. In particular it is present in both the apparent emotion of bitterness. In…

The two poems are from different time periods. Lord Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ is from the Crimean war in 1854, which was between the English and the Russians….