Essays About Relationship
The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a study in the mass hysteria which led to the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. Themes of the play include deceit, love, secrecy and paranoia. These attributes can be given to the play itself, but can also be given to certain characters and their relationships; these have been used…
Renaissance The middle ages and the renaissance were two time periods which were very different, yet similar in some ways. The middle ages was an era of European history caused by a gradual decline in the Roman Empire. It was known as “the dark ages” when society declined, taking place between the sass to the…
When seeking two art periods to compare and contrast, fewer artistic examples provide a starker depiction of radically changing ideas and mentality than the art of the Middle Ages against that of art from the Renaissance. First, art originating from the Middle Age will be thoroughly analyzed for context. Afterward, art from the Renaissance period…
“First Love” and “Shall I compare thee to a Summers day” are two poems written before the 1900’s by John Clare and William Shakespeare. The poems share similar language and imagery mainly about love but vary in structure. The poems allow the reader to see Clare’s experience as he has lost his heart and Shakespeare’s…
‘The Seduction’ and ‘Cousin Kate’ are similarly concerned with the predicament of women in society. They are both poems which end up in a negative position, and are following the trails of a young girl, wanting to be loved, in some way. They also similarly carry the theme of betrayal. In ‘The Seduction’, the girl…
Dickens uses the Cratchit family to increase the readers’ empathy for the underprivileged. This situation is parallel to that of today’s first world/third world struggle, where the rich are encouraged to help the poor. Dickens’ description of the characters increases the readers’ sympathy and pity for the family. “They were not well dressed; their shoes…
This makes you automatically judge what the poem will be like. In Duffy’s poem she uses alliteration to describe nicer things, ‘sweet shop’ When you hear this you feel happier and think of nicer things. In Heaney’s poem he describes things that aren’t really a nice image, ‘jampotfuls’ and ‘jellied’ These don’t sound as nice or give you as nice…
I am going to compare the two poems, ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘The Seduction’. In both poems, the main characters are female and single. In ‘Cousin Kate’ the poet narrates is first person thus adopting the perspective of the young cottage maiden featured but in ‘The Seduction’ the poet narrates in the third person and tells…
One difference between the boy and the lord is that the lord doesn’t really have to try to impress the maid or Kate. He can just use his power and money. The boy in ‘The Seduction’, however, has to try to impress the girl. The poem tells us he is wearing a leather jacket; this…
As this statement shows, religion was the main influencing social condition of the time. This is extremely present when we look at most of the artists of the time were monks. These artists would rarely sign their name to the artworks because the art was made to honor god or kings. The artist who made…
The Roaring Girl Act 1: Scene 1: Mary Fitzgerald visits her love Sebastian, dressed as a semester. They were betrothed and something has happened to stop the marriage. Sebastian tells Mary about Moll, whom he’s pretending to love to trick his father. Scene 2: Sir Alexander (Sebastian Father) is having guests over. He takes them…
The play “An Inspector Calls” was written by J. B. Priestley in 1945 just after the Second World War. J. B. Priestley was in 1894 in Bradford. His mother died in that that same year and his father remarried four years later. J. B. Priestley left school at sixteen and became a junior clerk at…
Today was sheer joy watching everyone going potty over some dumb dancing in the woods. We were lucky though. I still can’t believe uncle caught Mercy dancing naked! God only knows what he’d have done if he had have caught me drinking blood! I’m not too sure about Mary Warren though. Even Mercy said she…
In this essay I will endeavour to explore all various phrases, words, metaphors and diction that contribute towards the portrayal of images regarding family and country life. I shall analyse two of Heaney’s poems to gather these images, the two poems being ‘Mid – Term Break’, taken from ‘Death of a naturalist’ (Heaney’s first collection),…
In the two poems ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, Robert Browning portrays two very different stories both being about murder. The way that Browning presents these poems with such expression and forcefulness makes it seem like he is just reliving the moment in the form of poetry, as if he is the killer himself….
Educating Rita is a play written by playwright Willy Russell in the 1980s. Willy Russell appears to be from an educated social class but found a good basis for him to write “Educating Rita” from his own life. Willy Russell, born in 1947,grew up in Liverpool, and was originally from a working class background and…
Her fear of corrupting her children is confirmed when she later refuses to see them, “Nora: No! No! Don’t let them come near me! Keep them with you, Nanny… Nora : Corrupt my little children – poison my home? That’s not true! It could never, never be true. ” Later, in the second act, Nora…
The story follows the tragic tale of a young woman in the beginning of the century left to fend for herself after being hurt and taken away from the things and people she most loved in her short life. Just before the World War started in Britain, inside she is slowly losing her own battles….
Miranda fetched a stone, a huge flat stone, just the right stone. When Mason saw Miranda, wheeling it, he said, “You’re a good little girl. ” Miranda picked up the stone as high as she could and let it drop on Mason’s head. She’d killed the nasty Little Girl Eater. Miranda is clearly a resourceful…
Examine the settings which the writers have chosen for their stories in the Signalman and The Man with the Twisted Lip. Consider the effects that each writer has created and how they contribute to the atmosphere. Both The Signalman by Charles Dickens and The Man with the Twisted Lip by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use…
Examine the end of Act 1 from He’s lucky, believe me… ” what is learnt about the characters and their relationship throughout this scene? This scene marks the end of the first act; it represents the climax of Act One. There is tension in the Carbone household and this scene tells the audience and the…
The first poem that I am going to write about is, “Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day?” (poem 1) by William Shakespeare. This is Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet and is one of the best-known sonnets in English Literature. Poem 1 is about a man who compares his lover to a summer’s day; he uses…
‘First Love’ by John Clare and ‘Shall I compare thee…? ‘ by William Shakespeare are two romantic love poems, the first about how it feels to be in love and the second about the durability of the poet’s love’s beauty. The first poem, ‘First love’, is a love lyric written in the first person to…
Priestley wanted to entertain and educate his audience. Explore the ways in which he does both of these in Act Three of ‘An Inspector Calls’ You should include reference to other parts of the play in your response. In ‘An Inspector Calls’, the playwright, J.B. Priestley, uses several methods in order to arouse and sustain interest as…
Шt is not absolutely certain when Shakespeare wrote his play, “Romeo and Juliet,” but it is believed to be between 1591 and 1596. This may well be one of Shakespeare’s most famous romantic tragedies. It is renowned all over the world for the “pair of star crossed lovers” that unfortunately met an unfortunate and tragic…
The poems I have chosen to write about are ‘They flee from me’ by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), ‘The unequal fetters’ by Anne finch (1661-1720) and ‘To his coy mistress’ by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). I chose these poems because I found them attention-grabbing and remarkable as they all are based around the same topic of…
“Long distance” and “My Grandmother” are poems that explore the feelings and emotions of the main characters as a consequence of someone they knew dying. “Long distance” written by Tony Harrison describes the affect of death of a mother on the father. “My Grandmother” explores the relationship between the grandmother and speaker, focusing on the…
First Love (1793 – 1864) The impact of John Clare’s ‘First Love’ is both physical & dramatic. He uses several words and phrases in verse 1 to convey the virtual state of shock that he is in. Some of these are: ‘I ne’er was struck… with love so sudden’. This quote directly relates to the…
Shall I Compare Thee is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare, that compares a mystery person to summer, describing them as “lovely”, and “more temperate” than a summers day. At no point in the poem are we given a clue as to whether the person being described in the poem is male or female, or…
In act one of ‘An Inspector Calls ‘how does J.B.Preistly use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in the play? The play ‘An Inspector Calls’ was written by J.B. Priestly in 1945, which was just at the end of the Second World…