British Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 3

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The Concept of Shakespeare’s Creativity

Shakespeare's creativity is the top of the English Renaissance and the maximum synthesis of traditions of the all-European culture. The variety of Shakespearian works is worth paying attention to.
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1865

“Wuthering Heights” a Novel by Emily Bronte

The dilemmas of the communication between the members of different classes and social strata become the most evident in the conflicts that are related directly to the relationships between the characters in the Wuthering Heights.
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  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1940

“The Scarlet Pimpernel” a Book by Emma Orczy

The representation of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror in The Scarlet Pimpernel is considered an accepted and popular view on these historical events in the majority of Western countries.
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 566

“Burnt Shadows” a Book by Kamila Shamsie

Although Kim agreed to help Abdullah cross the Canadian border to escape from the FBI because of the tries to overcome biases and state justice, the woman decided to inform the police about the escape [...]
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1948

Mary Shelley’s Fears in “Frankenstein”

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 [...]
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1647

Winston Smith: The Issue of Heroism by George Orwell

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 [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 545

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

It should first be noted that Tipping the Velvet has the element of a picaresque novel which means that it describes the adventures of a character, who impersonates oneself as someone else and overcomes various [...]
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

Review of Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The novel Kim tells the story of a young orphaned Irish boy, Kim, living in the streets of Lahore in India during the British occupation of the country.
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1642

Responsibility in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Although Victor Frankenstein seems to be responsible for the wretch's behavior due to his egoism, departure, and fears, the impact of the creature's individuality cannot be ignored in the story.
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 589

“A Hanging” Essay by George Orwell

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.
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

“The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer

By analyzing the descriptions of the Wife's visual image, as well as her perspectives on the issues of marriage, it is possible to identify why the character challenges the conventional notion of wifehood.
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  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1206

Modernism – Yeats, Eliot, and Wolf

Yeats successfully draws the minds of the readers of the reality of the aging population. In the poem, Eliot's is able to draw the conscious of the readers to imagine of the outlook of the [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1453

Roles of Education & Family in Frankenstein

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.
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1690

“Ozymandias”- Percy Bysshe Shelley

The first incident is highlighted in the first stanza; in the first meeting between the traveler and the narrator. The parameters of the city were bordered by a river to the eastern side, the only [...]
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1037

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

In the story, he is seen to be everyone's favorite friend and is portrayed as being the closest friend to Winnie-the-Pooh.
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1252

Why Picture of Dorian Gray Is in the Canon?

In the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dorian is a handsome man and wants to maintain that image. People do respect and value life in the novelThe Picture of Dorian Gray.
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  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

The “Out With It” Book by Katherine Preston

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 [...]
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 918

Style in “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad

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 [...]
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1734

Torture in Shakespeare’s 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 [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 780

Parker’s Back by Flannery O’Conner

The central theme of the story is the reflection of the biblical features on the characters' actions and morality. Parker, the protagonist of the story, depicts the features of the biblical concepts burning the tree [...]
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1204

Social Conflicts in “Animal Farm” by George Orwell

This is the only way for the animals to establish equality and create a flourishing, happy and wealthy society."Animal Farm" by Orwell is a description of the metamorphoses that happen within a freedom movement turning [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

The Twelfth Night by Shakespeare

The Twelfth Night, for instance, concentrates on such issues as love, friendship, relationships between the man and the woman as well as the distribution of gender roles in the society.
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1935

Shakespeare Literature: Prophecy and Macbeth Morality

The divination made by the witches pushes Macbeth further into immorality as he is made to believe that he deserves the position of king. In addition, Macbeth abandons reason and morality so as to make [...]
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  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 668

Reflection on Gulliver’s Travels Part One

The author of A Voyage to Lilliput, which forms the first part of Gulliver's Travels, introduces the reader to a brief historical account of his own life encounters coupled with his own family.
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  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 625

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

He chooses to stay on, despite his clear disapproval of the society around him Before his trip to the wilds, he becomes aware of the imminent threat of exile.
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  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 1416

A Clockwork Orange: Setting and Literary Devices

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, [...]
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1662

“The Guide” by R. K. Narayan

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.
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1123

“Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell

However, his job required him to support the imperialist rule and even as he knew the reasons for the British occupation, he also knows that by treating the people the way they did, the Brits [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 593

“Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence

Thesis The symbol of horse winner symbolizes the "desire" of a family to prosper and flourish, but at the same time, "desire" is a mirage that disappears and leaves nothing to the family.
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

“Shame” Autobiography by Jasvinder Sanghera

Trapped by the Indian culture into a marriage she objected, Jasvinder's sister had to endure the suffering without sympathy from the parents. The title of the book symbolizes the story of a girl who caused [...]
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1805

Book Analysis: Time Machine by Wells

Focusing on social and economic aspects of the narration is essential because it allows the reader to conduct a comparative analysis of Wells's perception of the future with the current economic and social situation.
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Ethics as a Theme in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

From the novel, it is evident that humans drove the monster into a state of madness when they subjected it to hatred and rejection, and thus the monster's madness emerged due to the treatment it [...]
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 908

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The structure takes the character of young Alex as the narrator as well as the criminal protagonist with the main aim of showing the importance of allowing people to make their personal decisions regardless of [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 698

“The Talisman” by Walter Scott Review

An important feature of Scott's work is the depiction of historical events through the perception of a fictional character leading the love affair, and it is especially prominent in The Talisman.
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 404

“Shooting an Elephant” by G. Orwell Review

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 [...]
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 858

“Superiority” by Arthur Clarke

The reading of Arthur Clarke's short story "Superiority" had brought me to the following set of conclusions, in regards to how story's motifs relate to particulars of my professional affiliation: The implementation of groundbreaking technologies [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1349

“A Room With a View” by E. M. Forster

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 [...]
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 980

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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 [...]
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1512

Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

The creation of the project about Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the puzzles the main character has to face with and collect is predetermined by a number of factors: an independent investigation about the [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 780

Quotations in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”

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 [...]
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1158

Shakespeare’s Universality: Here’s Fine Revolution

Finally, this essay will try to persuade that the startling uniqueness of mind highlighted in the struggle to find the balance between "utopian possibility and dystopian reality" is what made it possible to render the [...]
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2209

Different Portrayal of Love in Shakespearean Sonnets

The usage of this vocabulary of this poem assists in seeing the controversial and confusing nature of love, and it creates a perception that beauty is not the definer of attraction while being close to [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

“The War of the Worlds” a Novel by Herbert Wells

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 [...]
  • Pages: 50
  • Words: 15302

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

It is also necessary to mention that Donne chooses a very specific realm of the spiritual to show the links between the idea of pure, platonic love and its ore down-to-earth equivalent.
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1105

Socio-economic Issues in The Time Machine

At the same time, in spite of the seeming dominance of the Eloi, their actual hierarchy gradually switched during the evolution process, as the Morlocks hunt for the Eloi at night and eat them.
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 834

“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding

The reader will wonder that all the boys respond in the same manner to the sound of the blown shell. The author uses aesthetics to drive emotions out of the reader about the value of [...]
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2081

Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

Macpherson asserts, In any erotic rivalry, the bond that links the two rivals is as intense and potent as the bond that links either of the rivals to the beloved.the bonds of "rivalry" and "love," [...]
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  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2389

Summary: “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf

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 [...]
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 547

Jane Eyre: Novel vs. Film

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 [...]
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1354

Passing through nature into eternity

Again, the calmness of the voice and the soothing quality of the language underscores Dickinson's view of death as a pleasurable, desirable state.
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2900

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

In whole, the main characters, the setting, the murder, the climax and the denouement are closely interconnected and wrapped up with distracting event to always keep the reader in suspense.
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Analysis of “Sonnet 130” by Shakespeare

Firstly, the author of the article mentions that the message of the poem is simple i.e.that the dark lady's beauty cannot be compared to the beauty of a goddess or to that found in nature.
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 672
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