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Two of the main characters in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, could both arguably be the tragic hero of the play. Julius Caesar is a powerful leader, but his love of power overcomes him and ultimately turns him into something far from a hero. Marcus Brutus, on the…

Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Emma’, share many obvious traits. Both are classed under the genre ‘comedy of manners’, both centre around life and love in regency England, and both can teach us a great deal about the complex class structure of the time. Although Austen had neither the great wealth and status of…

Chapter five of ‘Frankenstein’ is crucial to creating a sense of horror in the novel. How does Shelley achieve this? The gothic horror novel published in 1818 called ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’ consists of the major themes of life and death, love and sex and also how man challenges god. The alternative name for this novel…

“In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald explores the way that the past haunts the present.” Discuss this viewpoint. In the course of your writing, make connections to James Baldwin’s Going To Meet The Man Throughout the Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explores the notion that the past in some way haunts the present. This can be taken in…

Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus deal with Man’s internal struggle between duty and desire in different contexts; the former in the context of family and politics, the latter in that of the medieval Christian worldvie. The conflict between duty and desire is a theme commonly found…

Shirley Jackson, the famous American writer,  was born on December 14, 1919 in San Francisco. In 1930, a year before she attended Burlingame High School, Shirley began writing poetry and short stories. But it was in 1948 that her greatest success was achieved. The publication of the short story, “The Lottery”, brought fame, as well…

Dyspepsia futures are used to voice the composers concerns and fears for the future and warm audiences of these concerns. A time periods contextual concerns and the issues that are happening in their current day societies are what influence composer’s fears and concerns for the future. Because of this we can see didactic dyspepsia texts…

gs I Hate About YouChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate…

In William Goldings Lord of the Flies the Conch represents power and order. Power is represented by the fact that you have to be holding it to speak, and Order is displayed by the meetings or gatherings that its used to call and hold. The Conchs power is presented in the very beginning on pg…

The sad truth in society shines brightly in the play by William Shakespeare, Othello. The entire play is focused upon Iago, Othello’s ancient, who is out to destroy his general. Othello handed a promotion to Cassio rather than Iago, which leads Iago to seek revenge on them both. He convinces Othello that Cassio is sneaking…