Essays About Behavior
Our third stimulus was a talk from a senior teacher in our school, who had previously spent many years working in an African school. Amongst the many things I learnt from him, perhaps the most vivid was the attitude presented towards intellectualism, and the desire to do well. The teacher explained how in Africa one…
Walter McDonald’s “Life With Father” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” both offer extraordinary insight into the behaviors and lifestyles of two different families living and dealing with alcoholic fathers. Alcoholism permeates throughout each of these poems and becomes the defining factor in the lives of the children associated with both “Life With Father” and…
“1984” is a dystopian novel by George Orwell in which there is an unexpected ending. This is satisfactory in conveying the writer’s themes of truth, control and conflict. Orwell is successful in depicting these themes through the use of characterisation, symbolism and key incident. The key incident in “1984” is not expected and this helps…
Charles Dickens a great English novelist who had influenced many over time. He was born into a poor family on 7th February 1812 in Portsmouth. His family had records for creating debts and by age 12 his father was sentenced for debt, with this situation Dickens had to begin work in a boot blacking factory….
How does Willy Russell use the stage to show that growing up in different social classes affects two very similar people? ‘Blood Brothers’ is all about a set of twins who are brought up together but in different families of different classes, they grow up as best friends and eventually die together just after they find…
The way Dickens uses striking and memorable characters in “Great Expectations” is the way he published the story. He wrote an extract at a time and then published it in some magazines so the reader would have to read the next issue to find out what happened. The way he made the audience want to…
In ‘Great Expectations’ social class plays a very important role. ‘Great Expectations’ is all about the role social class played in Victorian times, because in that time there was a very strict social class system and usually people who were born in a particular class would have lived there whole lives in that class. The…
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Pip, a blacksmith’s apprentice in his journey to fulfil his ambition to become a true gentleman. The characters that Pip encounters along the way demonstrate different aspects of what it means to be a gentleman or the reverse of one. It is…
Throughout the book the woman in black is portrayed with an image of evilness. All of the terrible things she did, all the children that died and all of the coincidental things that happened when she was around. Mr Kipps was tormented I think from the very beginning of his adventure, at Mrs Drablow’s funeral….
When the paper eventually snaps in to, this is Eddies cue to get up and change the subject. Working with an arterial motive Eddie questions Marco whether he has ever boxed. Marco and Rodolfo both reply No. So Eddie issues the challenge directly to Rodolfo, saying that he will teach him how to box. This…
When the book ‘Great expectations’, was written a ‘real’ education was unachievable. Miss Woples School, which dickens uses in his book is a prime example of parents sending their children to ‘school’, to a teacher who knows little more than the child, Dickens is trying to indicate how negative the educational system was, maybe because…
The Sherlock Holmes’ mysteries, written by Arthur Conan Doyle in the nineteenth century, were serialised in magazines and they became incredibly popular. ‘The Speckled Band’ focuses on the Roylott family, of Stoke Moran in Surrey. The family includes twin sisters Julia and Helen Stoner, and their stepfather Dr Grimesby Roylott. The readers’ first impression of…
The film “Great Expectations” has a more interesting beginning and has more effect on the reader, than the opening chapter in the novel. The film starts by Mr. Pirrip (Pip as an older gentleman) reading to us the first few lines of the novel. You can only see his hands on the book, when it…
Charles Dickens and H. G. Wells have both written ghost stories in which they are able to create feelings of suspense and tension by using different techniques of writing. Setting the scene, imagery, characterisation and they also have decided to use a developed or undeveloped narrative voice. But beneath the original perception, they are very…
The speckled band is a Sherlock Holmes Investigation Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The title does not tell us about the story so straight away the reader is left with a sense of interest and tension. The reader Wants to know what this speckled band is about, is it a band of men wearing…
Charles Dickens wrote the Signalman during the 19th century. The story is about a signalman that is haunted by a spectre. A stranger (the narrator) befriends the signalman and he learns of the signalman’s past. Charles Dickens creates suspense and fear in The Signalman in a variety of ways. In this essay I will discuss…
A Comparison of a Pre-Twentieth Century and Contemporary Horror Writing, Looking in Particular at Techniques for Building Tension and Suspense. We looked at an extract from the pre-twentieth century horror story ‘Dracula’, by Bram Stoker. Dracula is a traditional gothic horror story set in middle Europe. It is written in the style of Harker’s diary. We…
A comparison of To Autumn and La Belle Dame Sans Merci on how they present strong emotions and ideas To Autumn and La Belle Dame Sans Merci are poems both written by John Keats. Both are classic examples of the genre. Both poems share emotive and passionate feelings. In to Autumn Keats describes his strong feelings…
The Eve of St. Agnes is built up of a series of deliberate contrasts. By means of a close examination of three distinct passages, explore Keats’ use of contrast in the poem. There are three main contrasts used in this poem – Christian/Pagan imagery, cold/warm images, and often the contrast of colour. In a way,…
Examine the ideas of manliness, hostility and aggression in ‘A View From the Bridge’. How are these ideas connected? Manliness, hostility and aggression are important ideas in ‘A View From the Bridge’. Clearly, in most cases, these ideas are displayed by the play’s protagonist, Eddie. This aggression leads to his eventual downfall. Eddie has a…
Both a birthday and remember are written by Christina Rossetti. This particular poet usually writes about death or religion in her poetry, sometimes both. In Remember the theme of love is shown by her wanting her partner to remember her and wanting him to think about the times he was describing his and her future…
The leading character of the novel is Phillip Pirrip or as known as Pip. The novel centres on him and throughout the novel we follow his life. He is the male lead and also the narrator of the novel. The novel has many big issues one of these are society where people stand and are…
Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens is the novel I have been reading and analysing. Charles Dickens has used his childhood memories for this story but this book also shows the effects of society. Pip, fully named Philip Pirrip, is the protagonist of the story. The novel takes us through Pips life, from being ‘a…
What advice would you give an actor playing this part? In this passage Juliet has strong conflicting emotions. It is all showing how Juliet copes in a time of despair and how she deals with such a traumatic circumstance. It is a solo scene, and therefore I feel it shouldn’t be acted with too much…
The poems I am comparing are “Half-Caste”, written by John Agard possibly during the twentieth century, due to that being the era Agard moved to England, encountering racism and misunderstanding of other cultures. The other poem is “Unrelated Incidents” written by Tom Leonard in 1969, the date is also shown in his poem by mentioning…
By what means does Shakespeare establish the main themes and characters and engage his audience in the Prologue and Act 1 sc I of ‘Romeo and Juliet’? What are our expectations for the play to come? ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a perennial and universal play, tracking two young lovers, faced with adversity as they try…
In this essay I will be exploring the many different ways in which Charles Dickens creates sympathy for his character of Pip; the setting of the story, the interaction with other characters, the language used, the mood created and the effect given. I will also be reflecting on Dickens’ life and drawing comparisons with that…
Charles Dickens was born on the 7th February 1812. His father was sent to prison because he could not afford to pay his debts. Dickens had to go to work at an early age because his father was in prison. At the age of 12, Dickens was working in the blacking factory. A blacking factory…
Dickens uses setting in a variety of ways in Great Expectations. He uses it as a way to mirror the feelings of a character and to expand on the characterisation towards Pip. This allows him to create an environment that the reader can empathise with. In Chapter One, we connect with Pip in a graveyard….
Politics and circumstance have conspired, it seems, to land us squarely in the No Generation: Sex is dangerous, private freedoms are public business, personal flamboyance is suspect. Small wonder that we’re nostalgic for the profligate past–for a time when the sensualist was ascendent, when the flouting of conventional wisdom earned one a place, paradoxically, in…
