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The 19th century was a big leap for technology, from going to horse and carriage to steam trains at 60mph, and changes were still improving, this however was not the…

“Romeo and Juliet” by Baz Luhrmann is an adaptation of the play written by William Shakespeare. It is quite new and had a star-studded cast and was screened in cinemas…

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….

In the play ‘Whose life is it anyway?’, Ken Harrison has made the decision to die, due to a recent accident that left him a quadriplegic. However during the play…

“Othello” is written by William Shakespeare in 1602. The leading roles of the performance are Othello who is the main protagonist, Desdemona who is Othello’s wife and Iago Othello’s so…

Both of the poems focus on war, but they are both set at different points in time. “Dulce et Decorum est” is about the horrors of World War I, which…

Throughout this essay I intend to explore a variety of different critics’ opinions based on how men are portrayed in Alice Walker’s novel, ‘The Color Purple’. I would like to…

Well, for starters, I feel I would be able to bring something new to the table, If you employ me. I assure you I am full of great, interesting and…

The attitudes of Bamforth and Macleish towards the prisoner change considerably throughout the play. Usually the attitude will change from one extreme to another at a certain point in the…

No other writer in the world is so quotable or so often quoted as Shakespeare is. He expressed his deep thoughts and feelings in words of great beauty and power….

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…

“The Beggar Woman”, by William King, “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and “Valentine” By Carol-Ann Duffy are all pre-1900 poems which focus on the topic of love and…

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…

In this essay I will consider the significance of the soliloquies in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. When Shakespeare wrote his plays he intended to make them entertaining for the era of his…

‘Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day ?’ and ‘Death be not proud’ are both poems written in sonnet form, written by William Shakespeare and John Donne respectively. They…

Hamlet’s state of mind changes throughout the play, and the soliloquies studied show this clearly. To better understand how and why Shakespeare uses dramatic devices, language, punctuation and imagery, to…

The question of why Hamlet does not immediately avenge his father’s death is perhaps one of the most perplexing problems faced by an audience. Each generation of viewers has come…

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…

Throughout ‘Limbo’ and ‘Hurricane hits England’, both poets explore the themes of journeys and places in various ways. These include ambiguity of ‘Limbo’ creating a reflective and rhythmic pattern which…

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…