Writers Essays and Research Papers Page 13

Love is a silly and unpredictable mess, or at least that is what William Shakespeare believes, as can clearly be seen in his classic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This most famous comedy by Shakespeare holds the theme that love is silly and unpredictable, which can be seen through the love potion and its use…

Censorship is prohibiting anything that is considered a threat to protect people from the reality. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, censorship is an important theme in the novel. The author Ray Bradbury creates a dystopian future with technology, dissatisfaction and loss of knowledge with the guidance of the government resulting in diminishing…

The book 1984 by George Orwell is a dystopia about a Totalitarian political regime. The main character in the book is Winston, who is part of the outer party, he works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston’s job is to rewrite history to match what the party says is true. The Party represents the government…

Some people are remembered forever in the hearts and minds of those that have been impacted by that person. This allows for their name to live eternally, much after their existing presence. However, what truly sets these people apart from others is the fact that they are selfless. In Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two…

Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, is a bildungsroman that follows the life of Catherine Morland. Catherine is the “heroine” of the novel, however, Austen makes sure that she doesn’t embody the typical gothic definition of the heroine but rather that of an ordinary and relatable young girl. Much to her dismay, her intelligence, wealth, beauty…

In Act II Scene I of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the scene opens to reveal the devastating aftermath of Prospero’s magic storm. The passengers from the ship (King Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, noblemen Adrian, Francisco, and the councilor Gonzalo) find themselves shipwrecked on an island; the beautiful landscape and seclusion of the island inspires Gonzalo to…

I killed my best friend. This could be the beginning of a remake of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. “Julius Caesar is perhaps Shakespeare’s most renowned and frequently-read play. The historic tragedy includes not only the tragic downfall of Caesar, Rome’s leader, but also of Brutus, his lieutenant” (Hood 9). Marcus Junius Brutus…

“Shooting an Elephant” is a biographical essay written in 1936 by George Orwell’s who was born in India but grew up in Great Britain. He finds himself as a police chief in Burma most of which who despised because of their British ties. The Burmese had the feeling that he was an imperialist that is…

Although this description of Miss Manette seems to be more imagery than character analysis, we can see in the extensive way that Mr. Lorry describes her that he is misogynistic. Men typically only notice so many things about a woman’s appearance because all they see in their character is the female gender. When Mr. Lorry…

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1997) both have an emphasised concept of civil disruption and chaos. Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet is a modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s 16th century romantic tragedy play about two young star-crossed lovers whose untimely deaths reconcile their feuding families. It was written among Shakespeare’s most…