Essays About Feeling
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
In 1594, before he became one of the greatest writers in English history, William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet with the intention of selling out the 3000 seater theatre, The Rose. A theatre like the Rose would work and perform with the knowledge that, for no apparent reason, they could be shut down…
Shakespeare uses a number of methods to create and build up tension and suspense in this scene. These include the choice of characters, the circumstances, the language used, the pace and dramatic irony. The previous scene was one of romance, hope and optimism. Therefore, from the very first line of this scene there is a…
In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ there is anger, grief, hatred, love, fear, despair, passion and violence. Write about these elements in the play in as much detail as you can. The themes named in this title are what give the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ its quality and it’s beauty, and making it one of Shakespeare’s greatest…
Empathy – Write a diary entry written by Buckingham at a dramatic point in the play Dear Diary, Today was a historic day and one that will be referred to as the day where evil was unleashed and hell was allowed to engulf the innocence of this oblivious world. The day where such actions were endorsed and…
Both Stephen and Keith have qualities of a spy. They are very discreet and inconspicuous in their hideout when they spy on Keith’s mother. When they are in the privet, ‘no one in the world can see’ them. This implies that they are very secretive about their undercover spying activities. Furthermore, Stephen is presented as…
I think one of the most suspenseful parts of this play is the section towards the end of act 2, from when Sheila realises that Eric is the culprit, up until the end of the act. I also find the last paragraph in the play very enthralling and dynamic. Sheila is a clever, quick-witted girl, and she…
Essay title: In what ways does John Keats express the intensity of feeling in the poem ‘To Autumn’? The poem ‘ To Autumn’, is, as its title suggests an ode to the season of autumn. The writer, John Keats, presents extremely intense feelings in this poem and we gain a full idea as to what…
In the extract from “A Pair Of Blue Eyes”, Thomas Hardy has created suspense, a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement1, as an effective method of telling the story. It shows us a character Knight, and the trouble he faces. It is split up into three paragraphs which each play their own part…
The ambiguity of chocolate is very similar to the complex character of Gertrudis. Gertrudis is the only daughter who is able to be emancipated from her tyrannical mother: she has the courage; she is pushed by some extraordinary power to leave and make her own life. Chocolate is known as a sweet treat nowadays, when…
Ibsen uses contrasting aspects of the two characters Eilert Lovborg and George Tesman to highlight the wide range of desires Hedda has when it came to being satisfied in a relationship. This highlights Hedda’s incapability to be satisfied by only one man, representing how she will always want more than what she can have. These two…
In short stories, they often make you assume things that are going to happen, as the writer has a limited space to make it a short story. Short stories tend to have a very clear structure- beginning, middle and end. Children are keen on reading short stories, as they are not complex and small number…
Psychopath- a psychopath is a mentally ill person who behaves violently without feeling guilty. From that simple description from the Oxford dictionary we can already see that the genre of Alfred Hitchcock’s’ film “Psycho” contains a lack of guilt and violence, which leads to horror and suspense. This is a great premise and on this…
Nikhil, a man of subtle views and very little opinion, did not have the desire to lead. At the time, this was very feminine. Bimala was forced by the passion to follow a leader, someone filled with masculinity. Bimala and Nikhil make up in a way that does not represent a husband and wife…
It Is a good movie for many stereotype teachers and parents to think about themselves. Although the final result of this movie is an unexpected tragedy, I believe that Mr.. Keating got a perfect success when most of the students stood on the desk; the respectful teacher is their captain In their whole life. He…
The inertia of love was fully bloomed into a evolve rose of optimism with two sub-ordinate leaves, his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning and his child Robert Weidman Barrett Browning. He is a love poet with a specialty of his own. Borrowing’s love poetry has a range and realism which are different from his great predecessors….
Aragog knew what the monster from the chamber of secrets was, but because it was so feared by spiders, he did not name it. This, although an important clue, did not seem to help Harry very much, or so he thought. Suddenly it hits Harry, “Ron – that girl who died. Aragog said she was…
“One Art” is a powerful poem written in the Villanelle style. Though at first glance it appears to be devoid of feeling, Elizabeth Bishop carefully orchestrates a gradual buildup of emotions – most prominently grief and regret – which climaxes and appears most obvious at the conclusion of the poem. The title appears to divert…
From the very first reference to fate, contained within the iambic pentameter at the beginning, to the tragic and untimely end. There is no doubt that Romeo and Juliet are ‘star-crossed lovers’. They were destined to meet, love and die. Throughout the majority of the play we feel constant pity on both Romeo and Juliet….
In novel of mice & man I am going to look at how loneliness affects many of the characters, and Steinbeck seems to show that it is a natural and inevitable result of the kind of life they are forced to lead. The itinerant workers are caught in a trap of loneliness – they never…
In William Faulkner”s A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson is a lonely old woman, living a life void of all love and affection; although the rose only directly appears in the title, the rose surfaces throughout the story as a symbol. In contemporary times, the rose also symbolizes emotions like love and friendship. The…
She may not wake up even once at night feeling uncomfortable if peas were kept under her mattress yet she is no less than a princess. All the little boy needs is a horse and you’d be reminded of ‘the prince from a faraway land’ just as you know from the fairy tales read as…
Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you would be loved, love and be lovable.” Love is something we are all in at least one time or another in our life. There are many different meanings for the word love and many people interpret it differently. Love as defined by Webster”s dictionary is a profoundly tender, passionate…
