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Charles Dickens is one of Britain’s most popular writers. Examine ‘ A Christmas Carol’ and how Dickens uses language and different techniques in the novel to bring people and places to life. In this essay I am going to examine one of the world’s best writers, Charles Dickens. I am going to explore how Dickens uses…

Charles dickens is a famous writer who wrote a Novel called A Christmas Carol; it has a Christmas message for those people who do not appreciate Christmas. The main characters are Scrooge and the Bob Crotchets and his family. Scrooge is a miser and old guy who all always think about profit and subjects to…

In the book ‘Our Day Out’, Willy Russell interests us in the characters of Carol and Briggs by showing us the contrast of personalities and the difference in lifestyle between the two. The main differences between Carol and Briggs are that Carol is from a deprived background, while the teacher Briggs, probably doesn’t understand what…

“On the Western Circuit” is a short story written by Thomas Hardy, one of Britain’s greatest novelists. Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in Higher Brockhampton, Dorset. He wrote novels such as “Far from the Maddening Crowd”, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” and “Jude the Obscure”. I will be answering the question of who was…

In the novels, “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” and “The Driver’s Seat” Tess and Lise are presented as victims of many things, mainly society, men, themselves and fate. Firstly, both women are presented as victims of societal and domestic circumstances despite their dissimilar backgrounds; Tess, on one hand, comes from a poor background in a period…

To be a fallen woman in Victorian society, was to be ordained sinful and would be outcast from the social world. Both authors choose to use this theme as a pivotal point in their novels. However, even though both are set in the 1800’s, Fowles was writing a hundred years after Hardy. Some may say…

The character of Gertrude in Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is a very complex one, and as a character has many interpretations. The most common of these being that of a very sexual being, thinking only about her body, and physical, bodily pleasures. It is her sexual appetite that initially turns Hamlet against her so violently. Her marriage…

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest dramatist who wrote plays that offer timeless lessons and reflections on human nature. “Hamlet” is one of his most complex tragedies. Shakespeare was well known for his tragedies, and romantic comedies, some of which are still remembered till date. ‘Hamlet’ reveals Shakespeare’s gift for dramatic depiction and brilliant…

The extract from “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” by Thomas Hardy comprises of the character of Tess being drawn towards the music that an angel is playing on his harp. The atmosphere seems almost magical as it seems to encapsulate Tess to the extend that she becomes in a trance-like state. The setting of the passage…

However basic these opening stage directions to ‘A Lady of Letters’ may appear, they do in fact hint at the dominant theme of the monologue, loneliness. Alan Bennett uses stage directions minimally yet effectively throughout, on stage the actions speaking equally as loudly as the carefully chosen and structured words. The fact that Irene, the…