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Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, the 2nd kid of a big household. His male parent was the boy of a pantryman and a housekeeper, and worked as a clerk in the Navy Pay Office. The household moved to London when Dickens was three and to Chatham in Kent two old…

In Kate Chopin’s short stories, she expresses how women are unhappy with their lives and want to find a way to add passion. She brings out the essence of society in her short stories. She exposed the unfair disadvantages women had. In her short stories “The Storm” and “A Respectable Woman” Kate Chopin depicts similar…

In the book Of Mice and Men each character is in some way is deserving of sympathy even if it is only a little. George is deserving of sympathy because he has to spend all his time looking after Lennie, and has no proper life of his own. He told Lennie “How it was gonna…

“Mid-Term Break,” a free-verse poem by Seamus Heaney, delves into the speaker’s encounter with his younger brother’s death upon returning from boarding school. Within the poem, various themes such as time, age, family, pain, love, and death are explored. Death holds a crucial place in every individual’s existence despite being an unsettling subject matter. Our…

INTRODUCTION: – King James I supported Shakespeare by paying for the performance costs of his plays. For this reason, the play ‘Macbeth’ contained several references to the Stuart dynasty. These include Banquo who was invented by a historian friend of Shakespeare’s, to represent the source of Stuart royalty. It was this historian friend, Rapheal Holinshed,…

This was an oral presentation, in which I prosecuted Macbeth. I received a grade of A-, however was told that it was my actual presentation rather than my essay that stopped me getting a higher grade :)Ladies and Gentlemen, I will be brief. You have heard the testimonies and seen the evidence; it is now…

John Steinbeck was born in 1902, in California’s Salinas Valley, a region that would eventually serve as the setting for Of Mice and Men as well as many of his other works. He studied literature and writing at Stanford University, but disenrolled in 1925, after six years, without a degree. He moved to New York…

Steinbeck employs various methods to depict Curley’s wife. The passage begins by highlighting the effect she has on men, as “Both men glanced up.” This introduction emphasizes her value solely in relation to men and signals that Steinbeck portrays her as a tool for their gratification. Shortly after, the text suggests that the interruption of…

One of the most prolific writers of his time, H.G. ( Herbert George) Wells wasable to do it all. He was universal, and could write from many different sides. He was one of the most versitile writers, as he could write like a novelist, asin the The History of Mr. Polly. He could also write…

Contemporary literature has two of the most outstanding authors that have ever lived.  African – American authors Maya Angelou and Alice Walker undeniably epitomizes a woman of strength and substance.             Both women present a noteworthy resemblance in the lives they lead.  Angelou and Walker narrate to their readers the kind of life they came…