British Literature Essay Examples and Topics. Page 6

Finally, Adam and Eve had to defend their right to believe and have their faith is the allusion to the changes that were apparent in the religious life of England.

The personal struggle of the protagonist was two-dimensional: the rejection of his own nature and the active rejection of the idea of duty.

It is imperative to consider Merriam-Webster's definition of a knight: "a man who is given special honor and the title of Sir by the king or queen of England", to understand the first component of [...]

Although Shakespeare wrote about the exquisite beauty of a young woman and compared her to a goddess, saying, "I grant I never saw a goddess go; my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground," [...]

In the proposed paper, I plan to analyze the means used for the representation of violence in one of the famous graphic novels of the twentieth century From Hell.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Disguising the work as an autobiographical traveler's story, the author chooses to focus on the issues of race, colonialism, and the indigenous, which become central to the author's exploration and the story in general.

In the background, we see the astonishment on the rest of the boys' faces and the turmoil caused by Oliver's plea.

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 [...]

The author is talking about fate and magic at the same time, and also tries to show the way people surround mythical things with beliefs that make it easy for the believers of such things [...]

In such a case, it shows that Friedman perceives the imagery of water as a part of change according to which one surrenders to the process of accomplishing the wouldouble vision'.

Later on that evening, Daisy suggests to Winterborne about her wish to ride on the lake and willingly overlooks the appropriateness of the time.

He studied in Ingolstadt where he discovered the secrets of life, which he uses to create a monster. He does this in secret since he is aware of the dangers of his experiment.

The paper focuses on the main themes of both versions and the way they are delivered, the techniques and methods employed by the authors of both the film and the novel in order to get [...]

From the very beginning, the writer expressed his concern for the plight of the poor, which was central to the whole story.

The most useful kind of isolation is the latter because not only does it allow one to come to terms with all the complexities that one has undergone in one's life but it also provides [...]

Considering the peculiarities of Beowulf, the paper aims at exploring particular themes such as family, fame and shame, changes and cycles, and the theme of religion present in the poem to show how the interpolated [...]

One of the most significant figures among the range of the animals inhabiting the land of fantasy is a dragon, the symbol of wisdom and power.

This is one of the main arguments that can be put forward. In particular, Ferdinand discovers that he can be committed to the needs of another person.

Hyde was not eager to become a part of the community and he tended to avoid communication with members of the society he lived in.

The difference between the Americans and the English and between the peculiarities of their cultures is expressed on the example of the two owners of the Darlington Hall.

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 [...]

According to the results of the examination, the first paragraph contains a range of key terms, which underline the general idea of the abstract.

One of the reasons why the novel The Remains of the Day is being commonly referred to, as such, that represents a high literary value, is that the themes and motifs, contained in it, do [...]

As its mission, the European imperialism had the "civilization" of the world and expansion of the Christianity over the conquered nations through the forced introduction of the European administrative powers and its culture.

This is seen in his soliloquy "to be, or not to be: that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer?

The book tells the story of Cyprus in the mid-1950s. The book highlights the experiences on the island and the individuals he met during his stay.

Hence, the movie review interprets the performances of Fiona Shaw and Ben Whishaw in the third scene in the third act, where they act as King Richard II in the play, Richard II.

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 [...]

The organisation is running out of funds because the clients, viz.the wealthy travellers, have started avoiding the Sherwood Forest after learning of the existence of Merrie Men. Therefore, Robin faces the threat of the Sheriff [...]

In fact, Mel Gisbon's power as an act does not provide a sufficient understanding of his ability to penetrate to Shakespeare's world and reach the ideas in the play.

The events leading up to the final scene in the film and in the novel with the initial ending are the same.

The scene divulges the heightened parody presented by Shakespeare where there is bafflement and confusion among the young lovers. The scene sets the stage for confusion in and bickering among the young friends.

Though Silas becomes an outsider following the false accusations said against him by his church, he is later the most trusted and the beloved insider of the village following his adoption of Eppie, a girl [...]

On his way to the squash game, the reader realizes that there is a big protest going on in the street, and this is when one comes to know about the political views of Perowne.

But, no matter how strange, awful and bitter it seems, the poet admits that people fail to see that beauty and lose the sense of nature, unity with it completely: "For this, for everything, we [...]

The storyline is romance and love; however, after Jack saves Mabel, the story transitions dramatically and defies all the expectations of such a story."Lawrence cuts through the romanticism inherent in such a plot line to [...]

Moreover, within a tale is a message that aims to influence an audience in a certain way."The Mill on the Floss" contains the message that comes from the teller, which is a reality of the [...]

This paper explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the book's events and the occurrences of contemporary society in 2014. Orwell's accounts in the book 1984 strike many similarities with the events happening in contemporary society.

It appears that the primary role of women in the play is for them to act as a basis on which men are evaluated.

However, he tells the doctor that he is not actually aware of the reasons that are taking him to his death.

Consequently, Othello seeks to distance himself with the misconstrued stereotypes of a 'Moor.' This essay seeks to prove that the main character's sense of identity leads to his self-destruction.

The age of the British Empire has doubtlessly left a memorable trace in the world history, shaping the lives of millions of people and defining the evolution of both the domestic and the foreign policy [...]

The story is a portrait of a middle-aged woman that Woolf paints utilizing Clarissa's thoughts and actions that eventually help her convert the ideology of life of the English middle class and describe the cultural [...]

The chapters from 21 to 29 in the book "The Martyred" by Richard Kim introduce the idea of sacrifice and the reasons of why people may be eager to hide the truth and contribute their [...]

The main character in the first story is driven by curiosity and regret to seek the services of a witch to help her escape her shameful past before she dies.

In spite of the fact that during the period of the English Renaissance the concept of gender was socially constructed and associated with a range of conventions, in Twelfth Night, Shakespeare reveals the social distribution [...]

Bad luck is clear in the story through the inconsistent relationship between King Lear and his daughters as well as from the role of dishonesty and power in the play.

However, in Ferdinand's case, the emotional pain was the result of a misunderstanding after the ship wrecked, Ferdinand came to the assumption that he was the only survival completely on his own.

The speaker in the poem 'My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun' by Shakespeare, is a man trying to find the exact reason for the immense love that he feels for his lover.

This book is important in teaching the audience about honesty, and repercussions of greed. He is unable to work peacefully for the good of his people.

The complexity of the novel and its meaning is often compared to the challenging and full of struggles life the writer herself.

In the novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe describes it as a history of facts that seeks to portray the social institutions and structures of the medieval British society.

It was her mother who strengthened her resolve to fight the injustice that her father had accorded to her. She also spoke candidly to her daughter by telling her the realities of the situation, and [...]

James Bond is very famous in the world because of the guns used in the production of the films, the cars used, and the type of gadgets used in the films.

Kurtz is a great threat to the entire organization especially the powerful position of the manager of the company that Marlow was working with.

The authors point out that it is easier for employees to share information. The authors bring out the complex nature of information age, but emphasize that it is important for individuals to acquire basic technological [...]

Tracy chevalier in her novel discusses a theme with a great effect to the society, which is the status of the female individual. Tracy Chevalier in this novel is concerned with the continuing change in [...]

Proponents of these poets commend positively on the different approach and styles the authors have adapted, giving them credit on how they have managed to break the monotony by introduced new styles and ways of [...]

Therefore, the expected change highly depends on the actions of the lower order and the role of the upper classes is to accept the new order.

Seeing that a range of elements of Swift's satire are on-the-nose and very straightforward, it is quite easy to assume that the rest of the narration serves merely as a foil for the social and [...]

Guided either by their own principles, as in case of Sir Elliot, or by the convictions of others, as in case of his daughter, the key female protagonist in the story, the characters act on [...]

Moreover the paper also describes the concept of education and upbringing of child through the analysis of charter of Frankenstein in the novel.

The two pieces of work that will be the main area of concern in this analysis are 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Oliver Twist'. He speculated about the nature of messages that he sent [...]

The complicating action is the main part of the story and it is the attempt to explain what happen to the main characters.

Emphasizing the gender of Earth, Bradstreet seems to divide the roles between the Creator as the Father of the world and the Earth as the Mother of the natural life in the world.

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.

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.

At the same time, there exists a set of theories and arguments in relation to these subjects as presented through the available literature like Bhabha's, The Other Question, Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism [...]

From the exclusivity of class experienced in Britain at the time, Karim realized that he was among the disadvantaged people in the society and British natives often had very low expectation of him in this [...]

Revision is given a pivotal emphasis in the influential work of Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back, in which they remark that the " arevisioning' of received tropes and modes...and the rereading of [...]

As an apologetic for Le Guin's choices concerning the sexual landscape of the novel, Cornell's essay attempts to rout critics on two major problems readers encounter with the book; first, that the world of Winter, [...]

Baldrick's 'In Frankenstein's Shadow' is an indispensable input to what is promptly gaining primacy as decisive and learned compromise regarding the integral nature of Mary Shelly's narrative to the comprehension of the two concepts of [...]

This simply means that the present existing organisms descended from somewhere and therefore there is a difference between the organisms that existed millions of years ago and those that are in existence as of now.

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 [...]

In his view, legitimate authority should be derived from the people since the powers of the monarchs are always destructive because they are used in a way that is inconsistent with the demands of the [...]

An effort is also made to track the changes of the roles of women in the social fabric in the Victorian era by considering The Odd Women by George Gissing written in 1893.

Arguably, the sociopolitical and religious system of governance in Britain at the time was threatened by Machiavelli's Ideas of freedom from religious dictatorship and injustice in the society.

One of the major characters to the plot, Lydgate is a mixture between a positive and a negative character, who, on the one hand, fights stereotypes and, on the other hand, reinforces them, which, combined [...]

In order for us to be able to substantiate the suggestion that the earlier provided definition does apply to Wycherley's comedy, we will have to make mentioning of what were the specifics of a socio-political [...]

This play is a comedy that seeks to show the author's opposition to susceptibility of women in the Restoration society. On the other hand, Florinda the elder sister wants to marry the man she loves [...]

Despite the fact that the narration does not contain any information about the author, it still manages to convey the world reminding of the remarkable journeys of Christopher Columbus, Jonathan Swift, and Sir Thomas More. [...]

The above-mentioned example can be classified as the means to turn the text into a story, which allows to refer the latter to the narrative style.

In the romantic period, fiction writing attracted a big chunk of the populace, and such it proved a way in which the ideas of the writers and authors alike filtered into the minds of the [...]

This occurred in the late seventeen century and summarily she was quoted to have harbored the ambitions of becoming a Catholic nun in her teenage age.

To discuss the peculiarities of describing the concept of childhood in the novel, it is necessary to focus on the actual substance of childhood as it is and on the impacts of childhood on the [...]

Waters chose to write on the Victorian era because she felt the power structure in this era oppressed the gay and lesbian members of the community.

From the provided excerpt, it is evident that Tilney invited Catherine to spend several weeks with her and she was to stay in Northanger Abbey.

The article is an analysis of the novel as well as an attempt to understand the moral dualism and paradox that haunted the men of the Victorian period to establish a self that wants to [...]

One of the things that Burke seems not to appreciate is the fact that freedom and liberty are not a one-time achievement.

Answering the question why Dorian Gray was motivated to adopt his life philosophy and to lead a double life it is possible to look at the facts.

Nevertheless, the influence of the church in controlling the production and dissemination of knowledge continued to be strong. One of the characters in the work, Sloth, is resentful because the medieval Christians were supposed to [...]

The poet's vision in the modernist age was extremely beneficial despite secluding him from the scientific concerns of the day or the society.

Ramsay; however, it is a false portrayal of men and this might indicate how the author intended to disfigure the male characters.

It is, therefore, through political consciousness and positive reconstruction of her identity that she is able to act upon the oppressive constraints.

The return to the lighthouse is used to show the change of characters that was realized after the death of Mrs.

The fight ends Lama's quest as he finds the river of the Arrow and Kim hands the secret documents to authorities.

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.

This piece of work will give a review of the novel in regard to what the story is about and the various perspectives that can be derived from the author's arguments.

The first letter starts by setting pace for the interest Voltaire had on religion and he writes, "I was of opinion that the doctrine and history of so extraordinary a people were worthy the attention [...]

Some of the features in the novel attributed to the line and the American exceptional and democratic ideology at home and abroad are tackled in this paper with an aim of unearthing the reason of [...]

Helen is genuinely willing to help poor people and she even offers money to the Basts, but she is so generous because she has never had to earn her living.

The presence of dialect in a story makes the characters to appear real in the eyes of the reader. The title of the novel has a greater significance in the story as it is assisting [...]

He is drawn to the whiteness and buys into the notion that their life is the best. Mary is the character that the author uses to show the repercussions of a crime between Black and [...]

This means that the apart from presenting the evil deeds of the characters, there should be people in the society who are opposed to the vices.

However, while Wollstonecraft approaches the solution to the problem from the educational viewpoint and claims that the key to a successful and full-fledged participation of woman in social and family life lays in proper education, [...]

In addition, the author associates the control of the world financial system as a continuing part of the evolution of money.

In fact, the book traces the genesis of the financial system, which the author believes started in Mesopotamia and the ancient Egypt.

This paper takes a critical look at the inclusion of chapter 18 in the publication entitled 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley and its significance in enabling a better understanding of the drama in the chapter. It [...]

She seems to be out of context of the human nature at the time, unlike Alison who is willing to love and partner with Nicholas in a romantic manner.

Despite men being predominantly satisfied with the given state of affairs at that time, humanist ideas were spawned by Chaucer 's The Canterbury tales in the era when women had little to no authority in [...]

Apart from the Monk, who incorporates the features of a typical fatalist, which have been blown to cosmic proportions, the Knight plays the role of a person who uses common sense to analyze the role [...]

Speaking of Kittredge's interpretation of the tale told by Chaucer, it is worth mentioning that the way in which Kittredge defines the moral of the story is not the only possible way of understanding Chaucer's [...]

Clarke, in his 1955 short story "The Star", proposes an immensely plausible explanation for the appearance of an unusually bright and light in the sky near the time of the birth of Jesus in Palestine.

One of the motifs is the defiance of religion and the moral understanding of the world. A rather crucial motif is the development of the individuality and understanding of the surrounding world.

Despite the fact that the characters of Eloise and Belinda are traditionally interpreted as the exact opposite of each other, i.e, a heroine and an anti-heroine, they, in fact, share quite a number of similarities. [...]

It serves as the key to the whole story as everything that takes place is seen from Stephen's point of view, so his perception and understanding of the surrounding social and personal environment is instrumental [...]

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

This piece of work gives a critical analysis of the play, Antony and Cleopatra, with much emphasis given to the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra. From the play, it is palpable that the relationship between [...]