British Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

Charles Dickens uses Pip's and Joe's differences in character to communicate his message to the reader through their experiences and virtues.

For example, the idea of prioritizing one's own benefits is discussed as the writer presents such characters as the miller and the reeve.

Theodore Dalrymple, in his work "The Frivolity of Evil", argues that most of the misfortunes that people face throughout life arise from the realization of the consequences of the actions.

Despite the description of a being created by Frankenstein as a wretch and the evil that he commits, he causes the feeling of sympathy.

It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that [...]

My prior experience with the story of "Alice in Wonderland" was about the adventures of a little girl in a fairy tale land.

As a fact, based on the way the author strategically presents various characters, psychological critics have suggested that some characters in the A Midsummer Night's Dream can be seen as representations of the ego, the [...]

Statement of the Research The underlying principle of this research undertaking is to examine the character traits of Frankenstein as a monster.

Specifically, the joint publication he released in 1798 known as "Lyrical Ballads" are considered the most important publications in the rise of the Romantic literature in the UK and Europe.

It can seem that Karim does not proud of the fact that he was born and brought up as the Englishmen, but the development of the situation supports the progress of the inner conflict because [...]

In his novel One Day David Nicholls attempts to show that love is the best and probably the only way to overcome loneliness and discontent.

In the London below, the speaking rats, the earls, and the monsters in sewers are further instances of mythology alluded to by Gaiman in this novel.

In the first novella entitled Morpho Eugenia, the author has examined the nature of the human soul including how it relates with the other people.

According to Bandy, the selfish nature of the grandmother and her disregard to her family is evidenced when she seems to care the safety of the other family members.

The narrator in the beginning of the story clearly states that he is not insane but his actions make the reader frown at his sanity.

Pip is the narrator in this context; he is telling the story of his encounter with Joe, an old friend, at a particular point in time.

The main character, Fanny Price, is in the middle of the social situation that dominates Austen's book. Fanny is a constant target of discrimination from several members of the Bertram family and this treatment can [...]

The other characteristic about the presentation of the setting is that the author uses symbols to direct the leader to the theme of the story and the meanings.

The review of Book 1 of the poem will highlight the age of the poem. The mentioning of the pagan deities in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament is likened by the poet to [...]

The poem is rightfully regarded as one of the best literary works in the world literature due to the stunning imagery with its special grave mood created by the author and the use of bright [...]

Other than narrating the event on the battlefront, the book gives a picture of the backroom events that the leaders of the different countries were engaging in such as making appointments, which had a bearing [...]

The love of a soldier is seen in the way he fights for king and country. He is the son of a king but his father is not the one he currently serves.

There is even more to it the deployment of stream-of-consciousness technique in The Dead, was also meant to encourage readers to consider the possibility that, contrary to the philosophical conventions of the 19th century, the [...]

However, when the police came to the Old Man's house he gives himself away to the police because he hears the heart of the old man beating behind the floorboard and this incident may suggest [...]

Other farm owners try to attack the Animal Farm but Snowball lead a successful defense in the battle of the Cowshed and gains much worship amongst the animals.

The milieu in which the novel, Frankenstein; The Modern Prometheus is situated served as a warning to people that the technological developments brought about by the quest for knowledge could bring about the very threat [...]

The fire symbolizes the ambivalent nature of the creation: one the one hand, it grants rebirth and creates life, one the other mercilessly punishes people. The fire in the novel is the ultimate power regulating [...]

From the discovery of the impending danger of the destruction of earth through a Supernova, the group of scientists decides to build a vault resembling Pluto which would protect them from the Supernova.

Orwell uses the details surrounding the shooting of the elephant to bring out the sarcasm of imperialism, and the vulnerability of the imperialists to the otherwise primitive locals that they purported to rule over and [...]

The Essay of Criticism is divided into three parts: the first examines the rules of taste, their relationship to nature, and the authority of classical authors.

She chooses to stay patient when the very light of her life, Othello, accuses her of being a woman of foul character and strikes her.

He in this way believes that Iago is an honest man and trusts him to an extent that, he leaves him with his wife and entrusts him to take care of his wife through the [...]

While the possession of the ticket is meant to be a matter of lucky chance, Veruca gets one as a result of her father's enormous wealth and determination to provide her with it.

Through the novel, it becomes evident that it is the government that poisoned rivers and initiated a series of acts of terrorism.

The analysis of the overall philosophy of Burgess and the meaning of the novel reveals that the twenty-first chapter plays a crucial role in delivering the main message of the possibility of moral evolution and [...]

The young narrator takes note of the fact that a tamed elephant is a revered asset in the country because it helps natives perform many difficult tasks.

In spite of the fact, Winston is inclined to rebel against the authorities and regime, his character cannot be discussed as heroic because Winston's will is weak, his fears are stronger than his intentions, and [...]

In addition to making him and his creature be isolated, Viktor does not accept the idea of duty and responsibility for his actions because of his inability to understand what it means to be responsible [...]

As a result, the poet refers to the representation of the Fall, the metaphor that allows Wordsworth to render the transition between youth and adulthood, reason and emotion, gain and loss, experience and innocence.

It is important to note that Jamila's personal identity depends on the concept of liberty as the reaction to the attempts to discriminate immigrants in the British society, the attempts to impose the traditional vision [...]

The greatest achievement of the scientist is that he managed to explain his revolutionary theory in simple terms so that people could understand and accept it.

The name of the novel as Frankenstein conceals the major occurrence of the novel, hence, masking the intentions of the writer at first.

The stories appeal to the people The hero of the novels Sherlock is a human being who comes to the rescue of the innocent.

Frankenstein's point is to establish his social life through the fulfillment of his ambition, and the monster seeks the unconditional love that a family can provide.

Frankenstein and Wells's recognize outcomes of genetic engineering and scientific experiments that lose locus of control and result in to unexpected outcomes that add a new dimension of the body of knowledge to the literature [...]

In its most common use, the word torture refers to "the use of physical or mental pain, often to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which [...]

The purpose of this essay is to point out, in as much detail as possible, the allegorical allusions to the Christian way of life, or in short, the biblical teachings that are vital to the [...]

The poem is filled with bitterness for man and his feeble attempts to control the universe when all of the achievements are swamped out when the sun goes away."The bright sun was extinguished, and the [...]

The writer makes the reader believe in his dream world where children become champions and where, unlike the real world, the good always wins over evil.

The contraries used by the poet in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" are the backbone of this poem. The structure of "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" is the first feature of the contraries [...]

The role of setting in Anthony Burgess's dystopic novel A Clockwork Orange can be defined in a similar manner even though it does not immediately affect the way in which novel's characters address existential challenges, [...]

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the theme of the misuse and abuse of knowledge and science is both a warning and a critique of humanity's hubristic pursuit of power without responsibility or consideration for the consequences.

The reason for writing the piece was to explore the place of marriage in society and what is meant to women during the 18th century. In such a quote, the reader realizes that Elizabeth wanted [...]

Marco's and Raju's mother's characters are to be considered further in order to research the differences in western modernity and Indian traditional values.

Brown is the consideration of a character in literature in the context of analyzing the works and literary techniques used by the novelists that were contemporary to Wolf.

Hamlet assumes the role of both the father and the son and the need to detect his identity about his idea of the father becomes problematic in the presence of his mother.

Although he survives after the death of the mother, he is forced to lead a life full of hardship following an unexplained disappearance of the father.

Throughout this sonnet, the speaker attempts to explain to his friend the challenges of old age. Therefore, the structure of the quatrains and images contribute to the overall efficiency of this sonnet.

Since people's emotions are pretty basic, these are rather the mechanisms of emotions which have become more complicated over the centuries than the emotions themselves, which can be traced in such works as Chaucer's Truth, [...]

The Asian world has always been a mystery for the Western civilization; the former lives according its own laws which the European culture conceive completely, envisions the world, its origins and the way its elements [...]

The Knight is the narrator of the first tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Knight's character is the complete opposite of the knight in the Wife of Bath's Tale who rapes a girl.

The main characters in the novel are Kim, a Tibetan priest in search of a sacred watercourse; Mahbub Ali, a merchant in horses and a secret service agent; colonel Creighton, the administrator of the secret [...]

The encyclopaedic narrative does not lead to a climax in a story like the way the narrative style does to give a lesson or meaning of the story.

The impact of the silence in this case, the suppression of detail about this element of the family reveals itself in the fate of the grandmother.

However, based on the prologue and description of the man, it can be understood that he is a simple representative of the working class.

The contestation was largely influenced by the Enlightenment led by the philosopher David Hume, who argued that there were different species of people and non-European species were "naturally inferior to the whites".

Thus, the experience on the island pushed Crusoe to become more creative and better understand what a person is capable of in dire circumstances.self-aware

The author gives an account of how she dealt with her shuttering in front of her peers while describing people's reactions, such as "did you forget your name?" The book helps to understand Katherine's struggle [...]

Darcy is a character who is able to evolve over the span of the story, and eventually, he recognizes his mistakes.Mr.

The ball scene in the novel, Emma, however, has some marked differences from the frat party scene in the film, Clueless.

The form of the play expresses its realism in the brevity of the play and in the naturalness of the lines.

The short story "The king is dead, long live the king" by Mary Coleridge portrays the dying of the king and the behavior of the court and his retinue.

However, in exploring Maggie Tulliver's character and peculiar experiences, Eliot attempts to convey her ideas about the place of a woman in society, giving the character a critical role to play in the novel.

1 The ongoing process of Globalization, which is being aimed at elimination of national borders, and the rise of Internet as a form of virtual reality, which makes possible to instantly transmit huge amounts of [...]

The participation of Japan in the World War II led to the introduction of new rules that threatened to upset the familiar Japanese culture.

It needs to be studied and that is why the poet travels across the seas and decides to arrive at the "holy city of Byzantium": the holy city is a sort of paradise that the [...]

In other words, one is to keep in mind that the expressions of anger the author highlights in her novel are related to three issues.

The essay delves on the power of Puck to change the love interests of the two parties. In the timeless Shakespearean masterpiece, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Puck is the most important and dynamic character in [...]

Therefore, even when Heathcliff wants to change and be a better person, he is not given a chance due to constant abuse and the inability to marry the person he loves due to the same [...]

Women were under the care of the men of their families, and the search for a husband was the main path to higher status and wealth.

Despite her reluctance to conform to gender and social rules, though, she and the rest of the women began to conform to the role of women in a patriarchal culture.

Miller's Tale is a comedic story that strongly resonates with both a medieval audience and culture and a contemporary audience and culture. The question of love and happy relationships have always existed and is a [...]

When I was a child, these characters seemed to be very voluminous and deep, in contrast to the characters of the jury, the duchess, and the queen.

The abstraction of the female body is represented by a sign of a geometric sense of sexuality, which is a sign of male imperialism and domestication of a woman in a society that is rigid.

In this respect, the author still resorts logic to explain the meaningless concepts and makes sense of the fictional world described as a new reality.

It is her conclusion that, at any rate, it would have been impossible for a woman to match the genius of Shakespeare in the time of Shakespeare.

Newspeak proponents are members of the Party who are determined to remove all words and phrases that have anything to do with freedom, rebellion and oppression among other afflictions of the regime.

Though the language of the story is quite simple the writer managed to reveal the crucial philosophical and social points, such as the importance of forgiveness, the problem of generation gap and trust, and, of [...]

This paper is a review of the main character, Margaret Hale and will also look at the social and economical and political transitions/issues that occur in the story.

It is significantly the working of the inner self or the perpetual threat of the unconscious to the conscious that leads the protagonist to the ultimate confession of the crime even when he is not [...]

The author's attitude is obvious, and it is noticeable that Orwell, who performs his duty, is not ready to accept the reality in which a person is deprived of life by force.

Thus, in his article "Cryptozoology and the Paranormal in Harry Potter: Truth and Belief at the Borders of Consensus", Peter Dendle discusses the role of the paranormal in the books.

The poem is a rendition of the fall of man as written in the Bible The author's purpose, as stated in the book, is to expound on the conflict between man and God.

To understand the meaning of the name for the person's identity and the meaning of the appearance and clothes for being recognized and accepted in society, it is necessary to analyze the relationship between Moll [...]

Through the description of the contrasting characters of the Summoner and the Parson, the narrator is able to draw the picture of the Catholic Church during the nineteenth century.

Margery stands out as a sympathetic character to the extent that sees her rejection by the society in the country, which does not accommodate people with such magnitudes of ingeniousness, simplicity and honesty that she [...]

This is echoed in the novel, as Victor Frankenstein is said to create life against the laws of nature and is punished for it.

For instance, the allusion to the tree as the symbol of the cosmic object, which links the world of the living and the world of the dead, could be seen in the specified items.

The lead character in the story is Ebenezer Scrooge; the ghosts that led Scrooge to repentance and redemption include the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come.

The daemon is an equivalent of the human soul, with the difference being that the daemons in Lyra's world are visible as they are external and take a form of an animal.

In both The Rape of the Lock and Modest Proposal, the writers use irony to satirize and mock the socio-political attitudes and values in British society in the 18th century.

Generally, such important themes as legalism, guilt, immorality, and sin related in the novel may be discussed through the prism of historicism, and even the very title of the novel featuring the word "scarlet" or [...]

Adler had threatened to send the picture on the public announcement of the mutual intention of the King and his fiancee to marry.

First of all, for the past 40 years the thematic orientation in the literature has changed in direction from the depiction of the real contradictions of social reality to the postmodern "collapse of big narrative" [...]

The unplanned overnight stay of King Duncan and his entourage at Macbeth's castle precipitates Macbeth's first fateful decision: to murder King Duncan and clear the way for the witches' prophecy to come true.

It is the age of change and social advances as well as the age of the strict social structure and a severe regard for the customs of the past.

In some ways, Alice resembles the ideal female character of the period, but there are also several ways in which she breaks the mold, such as in her willingness to assert herself and her ability [...]

The audience may be able to show a degree of empathy with Hamlet as the play was written in a slightly satirical manner and shows that he is very much human in his qualities and [...]

Considering this, the present paper will analyze the validity of the given statement by drawing on the experiences of characters in Lord of the Flies and evaluating the conditions in which they lived.

However, Macbeth's wife is murdered and the news is broken to him, and he is drifted into a life of futility and remorsefulness.

In this part, the stream of consciousness is used to tap the emotions of the reader about the tour to the western part of Ireland.

In sum, through the character of Victor, Shelley portrays that a person matures when he can accept responsibilities for his actions and their consequences.

The following is, therefore, an analysis of the difference in characters between the Nightingale and the lady in the story. This is despite the fact that she knows the boy to a certain extent.

The author has used his skill and facility that he learnt partly from Cervantes to explore the connection between the ridiculous and the good and the great humorous characters; the novel's greatest desirability is in [...]

The novel is considered to be the so-called extension of Modernist literature which appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. The window which is the first part of the novel is set in Ramsey's [...]

Gawain is not aware of the plan but is wise enough to find his way out and by so doing he proves to be a hero again, as he is strong enough to avoid the [...]

In "The Lord of the Rings", Gandalf the Grey is an important character who plays a significant role towards the success of the protagonists.

The state's persecution of the church is seen through the suffering of the priest who has to overcome great challenges posed by the socialist State and the fascist Red Shirts, who violates the church through [...]

This shows that the woman presented to us has a strong character that enables her to deal with the enormous loss in her life.

In the story, the family serves as one of the major socializing agents in society. The role of love in the family is an additional theme that can be depicted in the story.