Literature is replete with moments of failed communication. Paying close attention to the causes and consequences of this failure, discuss this notion using two works of literature
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Henrik Ibsen in A Doll's House, first performed in 1879, created an unforgettable figure of our literary heritage, presenting to the contemporary audience of his day a shockingly modern and innovative drama in which his heroine, Nora, one of the most powerful depictions of nineteenth century...
"The root of all chaos stems from the family". Discuss the dynamics of family conflict in two works you have studied
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Aristotle based his famous works on tragedy on the analysis of what he considered to be the “perfect”, paradigm of tragedy- Sophocle's carefully Crafted Oedipus the King. The myth of Oedipus has been studied, analysed, spread worldwide and widely used by writers, even philosophers such...
Education and loneliness in British Literature
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Education is as a general rule considered as a chance to the extent that it is often symbolized as a treasure. People are still struggling get their children educated in the developing countries. Tony Harrisson points out in "Two Book End? (The School of Eloquence) that education can be the cause...
King Mongkut: Man, Myth, and Misrepresentation
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Fewer stories of a Western encounter with the “Other” have been more popular than that of the English governess Anna Leonowens and King Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam, now Thailand. The fascination began with the two books written by Anna herself, The English Governess at the Siamese Court...
Chapter VIII's analysis of 'Human Bondage' by Somerset Maugham
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
The excerpt to analyse retraces what may be considered as a part of the main body of the plot of the apprenticeship novel Of Human Bondage by the English writer Somerset Maugham. The passage I'm about to try to analyse is extracted from the 58th chapter which means that the reader is already half...
Treatment of time in Virginia Woolf's Work
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
In her novel 'Orlando: a Biography' published in 1927, Virginia Woolf evokes 'the extraordinary discrepancy between time on the clock and time in the mind' (Orlando p.91) and the opposition she expresses between thess two concepts of time is to be found, more or less obviously, in...
"The Tempest", William Shakespearean - Prospero's relationship with the natives
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
In Shakespeare's play The Tempest, Prospero is presented as the colonizer, and Ariel and Caliban are seen as his «colonized subjects ». These two Natives had to accept this newcomer twelve years ago, and we rapidly learn that both didn't react the same way. Ariel feels grateful towards Prospero...
The drama of discrimination in Henry James' The Ambassadors - publié le 25/01/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
The Ambassadors is clearly a novel: the novel is free, and has the most elastic form. We could be tempted to say that there is no drama in the work. In fact, drama has different meanings. First, it is the name of theatrical plays of a particular kind or period. Secondly, it can mean a situation...
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
While some readers found reading ?Moon Palace' a moving experience, others felt that the string of coincidences seemed too unbelievable. In this article, I will attempt to present my interpretation of the author's aim in writing it. The protagonist MS, receives a response to the...
Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
This document will attempt to analyze the character Holly Golightly in the light her following statement: "I'm very scared, because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away." Holly Golightly is the main protagonist in ?Breakfast at...
Terror and Horror in the Fantastic Novels: Walpole's The Castle Of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein and Stoker's Dracula
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The concepts of terror and horror are key factors in the Fantastic and Gothic novel. This literary genre appeared with Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1765 and then flourished until 1830; it mainly developed during the historical period of the Enlightenment and can be seen as an alternative to...
Margaret Drabble, "The Millstone": part of the « Angry Young Men » movement? - publié le 23/11/2006
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield (Yorkshire) in 1939. She has an upper-class and intellectual background: her father was a barrister, a county court judge and a novelist; her mother was a teacher. She had a strict education and a studious life as a young girl: she went to a Quaker...
Margaret Drabble, "The Millstone": part of the « Angry Young Men » movement?
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Margaret Drabble is a writer who was often assimilated to what is called the ‘Angry Young Men' literary movement. But, as a lot of those writers of the 1950s who were put into the same category, she never claimed being fully part of this movement - all the more so since the term of «...
Antony and Cleopatra: Shakespeare's criticism of the XVIIth century's anti-feminism
Essay - 11 pages - Literature
like in his other Roman plays like Julius Caesar, Shakespeare used in Antony and Cleopatra the description of the Roman society to describe his own society. But in this play the main point of analysis was not politics but the place of women in the society. During the XVIth and XVIIth centuries,...
Cleopatra: Shakespeare's analysis of women's alienation
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
According to Yves Bonnefoy Shakespeare wanted to do with Antony and Cleopatra more than a political analysis of Rome. Indeed, Shakespeare analysed in this play the place of women in the Roman society, in order to make a comparison with their role in his own society. At the beginning of the XVIIth...
How Shakespeare dramatized the changes in Lady Macbeth
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
“Ambition is the step that can turn a noble-hearted man into a sinner” is the message Shakespeare wanted to convey to the audience when he wrote the play Macbeth in 1606. Lady Macbeth's is the wife of an important nobleman: Macbeth, they are both characterized by their great ambition of...
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Bluest Eye was written by Toni Morrison. It is the first of her novels and contains a number of autobiographical elements. The story is set in the town called Lorain. This was the town in which Morrison had earned her early childhood. It is a story which is told from the point of view of a...
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison - publié le 27/09/2006
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Bluest Eye contains a number of autobiographical elements. It is set in the town where Morrison grew up (Lorain), and it is told from the point of view of a nine-year-old girl, the age Morrison would have been the year the novel takes place (1941). Like the MacTeer family, Morrison's family...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1865
Essay - 25 pages - Literature
In 1843, the Reverend Charles Dodgson was asked to minister the parish of Croft on Tees in North Yorkshire. The family of Reverend Charles relocated along with him to North Yorkshire. The relocation proved fruitful and happiness swelled their way when a new entrant to the family was announced....
The Nineteenth Century's Middle Ages: Representation of the Middle Ages through nineteenth century novels or arts - publié le 18/08/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913), by Henry Adams, is a study of the 13th century unity with descriptions about the medieval world. In this book, Henry Adams depicts several well-known monuments and old sights of France, all of which were built during the middle Ages. Published in 1913, this...
The Nineteenth Century's Middle Ages: Representation of the Middle Ages through nineteenth century novels or arts
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Henry Adams, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres (1913). In Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams depicts several well-known monuments and old sights of France, all of which were built during the Middle Ages. In this book, published in 1913, Adams comments on those monuments as he is looking...
With close reference to any two poems on this course, critically discuss different conceptions of American-ness - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 5 pages - Literature
One may find a great variety of themes in American poetry, irrespective of the period one is interested in. There are numerous poems about love, war, the self, nature, reality and dreams. However the point common to all of them, is that they convey a sense of "Americanism?; that is, they can all...
The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado - publié le 20/07/2006
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
It is common knowledge that the stories of Edgar Allan Poe often reflect some of his own personal problems. His works, ?William Wilson' and ?The Cask of Amontillado' are usually classified under the label "tales of the double (or evil) personality". They reflect one of the strangest...
The double personality in Edgar Allan Poe's tales: William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Edgar Allan Poe's stories often reflect some of his own personal problems. William Wilson and The Cask of Amontillado are usually classified with the label “tales of the double (or evil) personality”. They reflect one of the strangest aspects of Poe's life. He actually had a blurred...
Lyrical ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge or the birth of a new literary movement during the Industrial Revolution
Essay - 4 pages - Literature
Industrialism, expansion, profit, production and individualism were the feelings which took place during the period of the Industrial Revolution in England. People in Great Britain were led by the streams of progress, but the modernizations in technology had some important consequences on people:...
Oscar Wilde and Aestheticism
Essay - 9 pages - Literature
The 19th Century in Europe, specially in England, is marked by the appearances of new artistic movements. Aestheticism is most important because it embodies a real change in the mentality and in art, and is considered as self sufficient. Immanuel Kant is one of the pioneers of it, and certainly...
Soviet Literature: A clearly defined and a Poor quality Literature? Literary policies and their consequences on Soviet Literature, and perceptions of this one
Essay - 16 pages - Literature
The Soviet Communist ideology which has ruled everything in the Soviet Union for decades was based on Marx's ideas, concepts as Dialectical Materialism. In this theory the world was in perpetual process of change, this through a dialectical movement which was made of conflict between the...
Commentary on an extract from O. Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" chapter 2
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
This passage takes place in the middle of chapter II, in which Lord Henry has just been introduced for the first time to Dorian by his friend Basil. During this scene of first encounter Lord Henry made an impressive philosophic speech about one's self and soul, moral influence, virtues and sins,...
The Da Vinci Code : a successful but controversial politico-religious thriller
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
The Da Vinci Code is a very successful politico-religious thriller. The novel was published in the United States in March 2003 and in France a year later. This novel has also been translated in more than 40 languages, which is a proof of the worldwide success of this thriller. The author, Dan...
The image of the Pig in "Butcher Boy" by Patrick McCabe
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
What are the meanings of the image of the pig and what different ideas does it enable to support and to highlight ? Besides, how does the main character react to this image and what impact does it have on him ? After reminding the classical meanings expressed by the image of the pig, I will study...
