Essays on Family Page 51

The play an inspector calls was first performed in 1946, set in 1912 (Edwardian era), in the midlands. The play is initially a battle ground of socialist and capitalist systems, cleverly implemented into the typical society with the lives of the Birling family. Through reading the play and studying its content, one can easily understand…

It will always be there as a pleasure and a burden. Society puts labels on everything as good or bad, rich or poor, normal or aberrant. Although some of these stamps are accurate, most of them are misconceptions. Shelley simply makes this known to the reader, so that they can see the error of their…

‘Oliver Twist’ is set in Victorian England at a time when the industrial revolution was happening. Businesses were getting bigger and factories were being built by machines. Poor people from the countryside moved into the cities to get jobs for money. However, the people who owned the factories didn’t care about the welfare of their…

Dickens wanted the reader to see the difference between highly organised crime and crime that has evolved from bare desperation. Dickens points out that these thieves are not living comfortably. He describes the ceiling and the walls to be ‘perfectly black with age and dirt’, they need to steal to get food for them to…

“Examine carefully the characters of the Birling family and Gerald, how do they share the characteristics of their class, how do they respond to the inspectors revelations ” Mr Birling is a middle class, self-made man. He sees himself as being above all working class citizens in his factory and his employees. He is not jealous…

Discuss how at least three authors during the mid to late Nineteenth Century explore conflict within the family. What are the family conflicts caused by? What are the results of the conflict? Conflict is made up of opposing forces, it may be natural or man-made, intentional or unintentional. Complications usually arise when the writer introduces the…

All through the ages children have been exploited. Children are easy prey – they are innocent, feeble and trustworthy. Charles Dickens portrays children in a vivid and descriptive manner of hardship and death in Dickensian times. Dickens felt strongly that industrial life in the cities was creating unfair class divisions which would lead in the end…

JoAnne Akalaitis bristles when I suggest that Jane Bowles’s In the Summer House reminds me of a Tennessee Williams play. “First of all, Tennessee Williams is a man, and this writer is writing about the central conflict between mothers and daughters from a woman’s point of view,” the director says with conviction. “Williams is also…

In this essay I will be exploring Jem and Scout’s journey to maturity throughout the novel; To Kill a Mockingbird. I will look at the techniques Harper Lee use and how well they work in portraying their growth to maturity. I will also explore influences on the children and the tree main themes in this…

In 1894 J. B Priestley was born into a middle class family in Bradford. As his grandparents were working class, Priestley had an insight into both social tiers and the strong divide between them. Priestley became bombarded with opinions from a multi-talented philosophical social reformer, George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw believed an improvement in…