British Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 2

Providing the title for the work, Orwell seems to ask the questions about the differences in the regime of the Soviet Union and irrational rule of animals at the farm.

Purpose of the research The purpose of this study is to compare specific women characters in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Hamlet and to explore their similarities in terms of their passivity, relationships with other characters [...]

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 [...]

The writer uses first-person narration to illustrate how Ralph is writing a memoir in response to the muddled uproar that is rampant in the setting of the novel.

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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, [...]

Finally, the death of Romeo and Juliet puts an end to their love and is powerful enough to reconcile their feuding families.

They perceive Gulliver in the same way that the Lilliputians because Gulliver is only a fraction of their size. He is showing them that despite the pleasant appearances that human posses, there are certain deficiencies [...]

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

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 [...]

This essay will discuss why the relationship between Othello and Desdemona was doomed from the start and how their tragic fate relates to the topic of jealousy.

In this speech alone we see Mercutio in direct opposition to all of the characters in Romeo and Juliet while at the same time we are provided an alternate point of view to the ideals [...]

Since the beginning of the play edited by Roma Gill, Brutus is presented as a character who is very close to Caesar and is a "great friend" of his.

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 [...]

It also points to have a warning note to it in the subtitle against the over-ambition of the modern man and the impacts of the Industrial Revolution and French Revolution containing both enormous assurance and [...]

In addition, Ferdinand is used to show the theme of 'service to duty'. In this case, it is clear that the reference to Caliban is used to show the different forms of servitude.

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 [...]

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.

Hogwarts is a high street located in London it has accessibility to the wizardry world and is of economic importance to the country, it is clear from this statement that the people of London rely [...]

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

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 [...]

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 events of the past still haunt some of the countries, the relics of the war are still being found in the places of former battlefields, the veterans are being honored and the films about [...]

At the beginning of the play, he decides to abdicate his throne and divide his kingdom among his three daughters. This choice eventually undermines the ethical integrity of this character, and he murders murder to [...]

However, he is now regarded as one of the influential figures in the history of both poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age since his works talk about the supremacy of the imagination over [...]

However, to my mind, the difference in the contexts of the novel and famous film can be neglected as the monster's appearance is repulsive enough.

The main theme of the story is colonialism and its effects not only to the Africans but also to the whites/colonizers.

Time and realism is a crucial element of modern literature."Time, in Modernist literature, may take the reader through a day in the life of a narrator, whereas in Realism, the reader is taken into a [...]

Set in deepest and darkest Africa, the pace and narration is quite compelling and bears a richly descriptive and evocative style - a style that is needed to consider not an image of Africa, but [...]

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 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".

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.

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 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 [...]

There is no point Emma is letting go of her beliefs, and what is right to her; it is right to others.

Sherlock Holmes is a unique character whose actions are incomprehensible to others; he is brilliant and independent, and aspects of his personality develop with each crime. However, Sherlock Holmes is a peculiar man, and the [...]

The Duke reflects on the death of the Duchess and finding a new mistress to please him. The significance of the use of dramatic monologue is that it distinguishes the poet from the main speaker [...]

The language used in the poem sound like, an adult is explaining the details of a model village to a child and the voices in the poem represent a village community.

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

The tale is a fabliau as it involves a trick carefully crafted in the story to satirize realism in the medieval society.

That is the point in the story, where the artist develops the character of the narrator, who is among the characters of the story, and more than that of the artist writing the story, thus [...]

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 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.

At the same time, it is beyond doubt in the basement Macbeth's character is clean and as a soldier, he is true to his job and his king.

In this novel, the author tried to show the whole tragedy and futility of war. Dalloway", Virginia Woolf tried to show the world through the eyes of different characters: those, who were in some way [...]

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.

Detail-driven points: Nonsense and puzzles of Alice's story represent an ability to find out the truth in its unique way and take a lesson that is crucial for life).

Macbeth's treachery springs from his reliance to the witches who gave him prophecy that results in his endless creation of enemies.

The author presents a solution to this question by demonstrating through the main character, Rita, that education can upgrade the diminished position and status of women in society. Education is Rita's expedition of self-realization to [...]

The poem sparks with a long tradition of belle dames famed to vilify and destroy men of fame like the knight in the poem.

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.

Poetic language and combination of English and Spanish used by Valdes is unique indeed and makes the reader accept these two different languages as one whole unit; in English Con Salsa, the author is not [...]

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 [...]

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.

In The Lord of the Flies, the fire in the story is lit as a symbol of hope and rescue. The island in The Lord Of The Flies resembled the perfect type of Utopia at [...]

The first example of the subverted power dynamic is at the very beginning of the story. The writer shows that power comes at a certain price, and in the case of the main character, he [...]

Pride and Prejudice is, first of all, a profoundly realistic representation of characters and tempers, albeit not of the English society as a whole, but of its privileged groups since the end of the 18th [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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.

The poem not only depicts the scenery and the natural world in the border of the mountain but also describes the river that flows from its summit.

Bronte's original story narrates Jane's story as an orphan who finds joy at the end of the story but Stevenson's film tells the story of Jane as a person who went through a lot of [...]

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 [...]

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.

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.

The mood of amusement in A Visit to Newgate is controlled by the principle that the fascination of everyday scenes has only to be recognized to be enjoyed.

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 [...]

Mary Shelley's creation is often spoken about as a philosophical work telling about the influences of industrialization and technological progress on the society and the ideas about the values of life and death, the argument [...]

The first thesis is based on the historical context of the novel and I believe that the novel by Stevenson is a resonance of the frustration of many Victorian intellectuals of the stifling social norms [...]

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 [...]

Although very common in the literature, the play portrays the character of Dr. This essay explores the concept of anti-heroism and demonstrates how the character of Doctor Faustus is an antihero.

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.

There are animals which represent the poor people while the pigs and dogs represent the administrators of the leader. The pigs and dogs are given power to rule the animals by Jones who is the [...]

Sonnet 18 is an amazing part of Shakespeare's sonnets that addresses a number of crucial issues like human beauty, the power of nature, and writer's abilities to engrave an image of a man in the [...]

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

In conclusion, Palamon and Arcite are bound together by their duty and the desire to win Emily's heart, regardless of her opinion.

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.

The ghosts' conversation reveals a couple looking for their treasure, love, and the author creatively lets the reader intermittently shift between conscious and subconscious moments to the very end of the story.

This paper will explore the notion of narcissism and use examples from Bronte's s novel to prove that Mr. Rochester consistently behaves in a way that forces the reader to question the moral integrity of [...]

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 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.

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.

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 [...]

With a couple of bright original metaphors, a writer helps a reader to understand a character's emotions, to imagine setting with the minor details, and to feel the atmosphere of the moment.

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.

He lauds "the book's anti-imperialist theme...a stinging indictment of the callous and genocidal treatment of the Africans, and other nationals, at the hands of the British and the European imperial powers," and also details the [...]

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

The setting of the book is in a Greek society where Philip is the king. The king enlists the services of the well-travelled Leonidas to be young Alexander's teacher since he has attained the age [...]

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 [...]

As is clear from the analysis essay on "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", this poem shows the theme of a man's longing to escape into nature for peace and reconnection.

Jane Eyre appears to have great self esteem even though she is an orphan and has a lot of negative energy and criticism around her in the shape of her aunt and cousins.

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.

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.

As for the irony, the author uses this device to draw the readers' attention to the injustice of the situation described in the poem.

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.

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

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.

Macbeth is essentially the story of a character who lives his life in a state of confusion to the degree that the only constant in his life changes.

The narrative observes past and present events that assist in understanding the specific problems faced by the main characters of 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 [...]

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.

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.

It is important to note that stream of consciousness is a major contributor to excellent delivery of thoughts and ideas in literature.

The research focuses on the summary of Phyllis Roth's critical analysis of the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel. The writer uses the quotes to show proof of the author's understanding of the Bram Stoker's Dracula novel.

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.

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

As the author observes in his own words, most of the remarks from the aunt's side would be fraught with the authoritative term 'Do not' while nearly all the remarks by the children countered with [...]

As she struggles between the strict social mores of her community and the desires of her heart, Lucy is influenced by both her own internal experiences and the external behaviors of those around her, finally [...]

The life of Lord Jim seems to be surrounded by certain signs and symbols; in particular, colors have a deep and important meaning in the understanding of the nature of every character.

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.

In the center of the plot, there is a little girl Sophie who meets a giant and learns much about the new world that is unfamiliar to her.

He was not able to stand the rule of the sheriff who had been employing the dictatorship. By creating this group, there were more plans that Robin was to make to accomplish his task of [...]