Writers Essays and Research Papers Page 18

In A Midsummer Nights Dream, Shakespeare believes that there isn’t just one specific feeling of love. Shakespeare show in his story A Midsummer Nights Dream important aspects of comedy using tragic points, true love, and jealousy. To begin with, in the first act of scene one, Egeus starts the story off with a big problem…

In the 18th century where the feminist in social status was not yet prominent, the English writer Jane Austen wrote her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice which was published anonymously on January 28, 1813, as a romantic satire of social manners in Georgian England. Jane Austen was born at Stevenson in Hampshire, England, on December 16,…

Mothers often expect daughters to be the best, despite if the mother themselves made many mistakes when growing up. In Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan both the beauties and atrocities of mother-daughter relationships are displayed. This story is about revelations daughters have when uncovering their mothers past. Realizing the experiences of the mothers…

Have you ever heard of the Bard of Avon? He is only the number one best-selling fiction author of all time! Still don’t know? It’s William Shakespeare! Does his name ring a bell? Let me tell you about his life story. William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. He was baptized on…

Powerful roles in society have difficult responsibilities, in which morals are called into question. The difficulty for authority is ultimately the choice of following one’s own agenda or playing into the bigger picture. In George Orwell’s “Shooting An Elephant” he discusses his time as a sub-divisional police officer in Burma for the British Empire. One…

In the book Anthem, Ayn Rand portrays a society where everything is done for the benefit of the group, and the individual is invisible. People are nameless, faceless, and don’t dare to question authority. The author was an individualist philosopher, and is trying to show through this story that a socialist system cannot possibly lead…

Edgar Allen Poe is known for his mastery of Gothic writing in grotesque, yet fascinating tales. “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe is a classic example of how verbal, situational, and dramatic irony can greatly influence the theme of a literary work. It tells the story of a nobleman referred to as Montresor…

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr was an American author born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. Growing up in a good middle-class family Steinbeck learned to appreciate his environment, not only Salinas but the Pacific Coast. His father, John Steinbeck Sr., was a county treasurer while his mother, Olive Steinbeck was a former teacher. Inspired…

‘You might call him the Leader of the Cult of the Unusual,’ (Jules Verne). Edgar Allan Poe was a captivating author. His writing had a major influence on recent literature. His whole life is comparable to a roller coaster with so many twists unforeseen. Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1906, in Boston,…

“When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d” is a poem about the murder of Abraham Lincoln in Washington D.C. on April 14, 1865. Whitman uses this literature to publicly express his sorrow over the loss of this president (“Walt Whitman”). He went to great measures to indicate that the dead are not the sufferers, rather the…