Charles Dickens is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of all time just take a look at his masterpiece A Tale of Two Cities The novel chronicles the years before during and after the French Revolution Dickens characters come to life especially the grotesque ones through their in depth portrayals The sorrow and horrors of the French Revolution are easily imagined through Dickens detailed and visual descriptions And most powerfully Dickens employs many metaphors throughout the story r
Tale of Two Cities Timed Writing The introductory sentence in the Tale of Two Cities is not only a well known quote or line but if read in detail it has great significant meaning when comparing time periods to one another The sentence relates to the contemporary problems of the world today in almost every way you think about it The use of the sentences ironic comparisons relates to our modern world today on social economic and even educational levels The introductory sentence to the Tale of Two
Walt Whitman Robert Herrick tremendously famous poets to this day who have both captured the idea of living each day to the fullest in O Me O Life and To the Virgins to Make Much of Time respectively Despite these poems being written an approximate two hundred years apart from each other they do carry the alike theme of carpe diem conveyed in two unique ways These poems differ when the poets show their style through the authors focus meaning tone and poem structure These two poems emphasize dif
A Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange was written by Anthony Burgess in 1962 and set in the early years of the twenty first century Like George Orwells 1984 and Aldous Huxleys Brave New World A Clockwork Orange is a novel about a fictional futuristic city controlled by a suppressive totalitarian government When Burgess reveals what horrific acts of crime occur within this society the reader must ask what is better the freedom of independent individuality that allows one to commit these acts or
A Critical Analysis of Hamlet Why is Shakespeare considered to be one of the greatest playwrights of his time Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era and had to write for an Elizabethan audience and theater By todays standards this was no picnic in the park Under those circumstances he wrote some of the greatest works in history These works still popular today prove him to be a consummate dramatist Shakespeare knew how to craft dramatic scenes full of external and internal conflict and emotion
The Canterbury Tales is a literary masterpiece in which the brilliant author Geoffrey Chaucer sought out to accomplish various goals Chaucer wrote his tales during the late 1300s This puts him right at the beginning of the decline of the Middle Ages Historically we know that a middle class was just starting to take shape at this time due to the emerging commerce industry Chaucer was able to see the importance and future success of the middle class and wrote his work with them in mind Knowing th
Erich Maria Remarque wrote All Quiet On The western Front The book focuses on the hardships of soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France in World War One in order to show the futileness of war The book is written in first person and it is written from a Germans point of view because the author Remarque was a German It is a story of comradeship of young soldiers fresh from school enrolling in the German army The main character in this book is the narrator Paul Baumer Paul Baumer comes fro
In Tennysons poem The Eagle there are many writing elements that are used to create his poem The Eagle is a great reading for analyzing the elements of imagery personification and possibly symbolism Tennyson one of the greatest English poets used an array of subjects as sources of materials for his poetry Tennysons use of imagery personification and symbolism in The Eagle are used to create this wonderful and descriptive poem First and foremost imagery is key to almost all narrative fiction Ima
Memories Bridge the Past with the Present Memories are precious and unique to everyone Memories remind individuals of who they are and where they came from The senses whether it is taste touch sight hearing or smell can physically bring back memories E B White the author of Once More to the Lake and Scott Russell Sanders the author of Inheritance of Tools recall their memories through the senses In each essay both authors are struggling with the present but look back on the past to help cope wi
Have you ever examined a situation and stopped to think about the circumstances of both sides Whether you may have read the epic story of Beowulf or any other tale of hero and foe it may be time to take a moment and check out the other side The author Seamus Heaney for example must have kept in mind the views of both the heroes and villains while translating this masterpiece Things such as reasoning and revenge may have driven the evil doers to have done something we consider evil In Beowulf mo