Explain how the character of Crooks is represented by Steinbeck in chapter 4 of Of Mice and Men In this essay I will look at the background of the book about when and where it was written I will look at the character of Crooks explain who he is what he does and how Steinbeck uses Crooks to represent the loneliness and racism of his time I will also look at the different techniques which Steinbeck uses to show the character of Crooks in chapter 4 The book Of Mice and Men was written in 1937 duri
Explore how Shakespeare dramatises Richard III attitudes towards women Shakespeares Richard Duke of Gloucester is multifarious personality with his ambition to gain the crown of England driving his actions throughout the play Richard is a viciously self interested man seemingly uncaring about the pain that his plotting causes others Richard III follows Richards rise to power and the trail of betrayal mistrust and destruction he leaves in his wake A key theme throughout is the struggle for power
An Inspector Calls is set in 1912 but was written by J B Priestley in 1945 The Inspector Calls takes place at the end of the Edwardian Era Around this time took place many new inventions along with social controversy and political activity In 1912 the wealthy upper class people lived extraordinary lives whilst the lower class lived poor deprived lives This is shown extremely well in An Inspector Calls as The Birlings and Croft family are upper class families and show their wealth and intoleranc
The Tempest was written by William Shakespeare and is accepted as this last solely written play The plot is about the rightful Duke of Milan Prospero who with his daughter have been stranded on an island for 12 years after Prosperos jealous brother Antonio sent them to sea and took over the dukedom When Antonio Alonso the King of Naples and their court are on a ship sailing past the island Prospero uses his vast leaning and magical abilities to cause a massive storm which brings them to him It
Throughout Death of a Salesman time switches are used continuously typically to present the audience with the Loman familys background and show deterioration In act one we see the first flashback at the beginning of the play As the play starts to go into flashback the backdrop changes from the present Apartment houses and the surroundings become covered in leaves This is the first sign of the Lomans happy past Willy is talking sense and telling Biff to watch his schooling giving him good advice
Gothic fiction is a genre of literature that combines both the horrific and the romantic elements which intertwine and present the reader with a sense of escapism that is as pleasing as it is terrifying When gothic novels first emerged in the eighteenth century upper society looked down upon them labeling them just as they did novels in general as trashy sensationalist forms of literature for they merely existed as a form of entertainment while more serious types of writing such as historical o
Explore the ways a central character is affected by external influences in the texts you have studied In both texts I have studied Macbeth and A Christmas Carol both central characters are affected by a number of external influences which in turn leads them into drastic characteristic changes What is meant by this is that the plot and story of each texts would not have unravelled if it wasnt for these significant and controlling influences which caused and put pressure and emotion on these Char
The extract from Great Expectations is a scene where the character Pip is giving his perspective of the other character Jaggers who is a lawyer and his office and Pip very much sees Jaggers room as synonymous to Jaggers character The atmosphere of the room is best described by the repeated descriptive adjective Dismal Dickens writes from Pips perspective through 1st person His impression of Jaggers room is not a positive one and as Pip searches through the room it develops and this little world
Faced with a Choice In Ernest Hemingways story Hills Like White Elephants Jig is faced with a difficult decision of having an abortion or not In 1927 the right to have an abortion was still a very touchy subject even though women were finally beginning to have rights Abortions did happen though Back alley abortions were common they were abortions done in run down clinics by people that werent even licensed Dr s some women even took it upon themselves to give themselves an abortion like with a c
In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 1953 members of society focus only on entertainment immediate gratification and speeding trough life If books are found they are burned and their owner is arrested If the owner refuses to abandon the books he or she often dies burning along with them People with interested outside of technology and entertainment are viewed as strange as possible threats The authors three warnings to contemporary society are technology mass entertainment replaces literacy and fa