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Hardy uses the setting in “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” to give a bigger impact on other issues raised in the novel. Those issues were the social concerns at that time, which were the agricultural revolution, the role of women and the religious ideas people had. He used these social concerns to portray his own views…

‘The Glass Menagerie’ was originally named ‘Portrait of a girl in glass’. Tennessee Williams wrote the play. The play is very convincing because Williams uses many symbols, which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The play is written…

The great play writer, Arthur Miller formed a miserable story “The Crucible” during the dark Mc Carthy Ela. The story was based on Salem Witch Trials and the event behind the history. The author created a parallel story to spend the reader the message of how he thinks about the Anti-Communism activity of the 1950’s….

Both poems “The Laboratory” written by Thomas Hardy and “The Man He Killed” by Ancient Regime, contain death and murder, they both have victims and murderers, they are set in unpleasant places, they are both emotional “While they laugh, laugh at me, I fled to the drear” the repetition in this quote from TL shows…

Many factors in Thomas Hardy’s ‘The superstitious man’s story’ contribute to its realism and potency as a ghost story. Hardy, having been brought up in similar surroundings to the story, has an automatic knowledge and understanding of village life and everyday events. These are a large focus in this particular tale, used to make it…

Madness can be seen as ‘mental incapacity caused by unmentionable injury. ‘ These wounds are not often easily perceived but may revealed in times of stress or anxiety similar to Hamlet’s situation where his father has been blatantly murdered, yet it is not obvious to others. In Shakespeare’s time, people would have looked upon Hamlet…

In this assignment I will compare and contrast two poems To His Coy Mistress written by Andrew Marvell in 1650 and Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare written in 1590. Both on the theme of love and time and both written to be sent to an unknown recipient. Neither of these two poems were intended to…

The poems that I have chosen are “The hero” by Siegfried Sassoon appeared in printing in 1917 and is about a real war poem thinking of those left behind when it shows respect and admiration for the mother and the way that the poet has revealed the truth about the situation happening in both sides…

The two poems, “To His Coy Mistress” and “The Flea” were both written with one thing in mind: seduction. The poems were later labelled as Metaphysical poems, which is a term used for poems that were written in a certain period, usually to seduce, and contained unusual metaphors. The 17th century was a highly religious…

Dickens makes look Christmas enjoyable by introducing us to other people in the play who makes Christmas enjoyable. Fezzewing is one of the people who keep Christmas well, by having a Christmas spirit. Also Fezzewing closes his shop early so that labours won’t have to work long on Christmas evening and also that people will have…