Explore the presentation of psychopathic behaviour in John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory Both John Fowles The Collector and Iain Banks The Wasp Factory present characters whose behaviour can be described as psychopathic Psychopathy can be described as chronic immoral and antisocial behaviour In The Collector Frederick Frederick behaves in an obsessive evil and psychopathic way when he imprisons Miranda eventually leading to her gruesome death In The Wasp Factory Frank Cau
Topic Explore the theme of religion in the play Whos afraid of Virginia Woolf is a play written in 1962 by the American playwright Edward Albee The title sets the tone of the play with on one side the intellect and the drama with Virginia Woolf who was a famous writer who committed suicide And on the other hand a childish atmosphere with the allegory of the nursery rime whos afraid of the big bad wolf As a result whos afraid of Virginia Woolf offers a great deal of emotions During the 1950s wor
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeares most famous plays and was written in the Elizabethan times Macbeth explores how power can effect people and ultimately lead to their downfall A range of themes are portrayed including guilt ambition and conscience However the key element in Macbeth is the theme of the supernatural Elements such as Macbeths hallucinations and apparitions and the involvement of witches are all stereotypical things to include when working with the supernatural The theme of th
In the crumbling universe of Shakespeares King Lear a world in which evil and treachery is allowed to triumph for a moment too long and goodness falters under the dominion of the former a terrible irony is made resoundingly clear The ambiguity of the victory between the binary oppositions becomes one of the most unsettling themes of King Lear who truly triumphs Perhaps more importantly what become the cruelly conceived expenses of such a victory The prevailing question of cosmic justice pervade
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
A coward is one who lacks courage in facing danger difficulty opposition or pain In the piece Shooting an Elephant the author George Orwell outlines the contrast involved with imperialism The narrator and protagonist is a British police officer situated in India that helps maintain British imperialism over the Burmese people Although he is completely against imperialism he continues to participate in it Faced with the task of taming an elephant the officer is forced to deal with the reality of
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
How Fitzgeralds Life Influenced the Novel In the novel The Great Gatsby there are similarities between Fitzgeralds life and Gatsbys Gatsbys life revolves around Fitzgeralds real life experiences Their motivation to do well in life and become wealthy both comes from their desire to please the women that they love and live the American dream of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness Fitzgerald and Gatsby sacrificed their moral values their integrity and their honesty to create a perfect life t
F R Leavis claimed that a habit of self approving self dramatization is an essential element in Othellos make up Do you agree with this description of Othellos character Many critics have disagreed over whether Othello ever actually experiences a catharsis and acknowledges his own culpability This debate dates back to T S Eliots view of Othello as only cheering himself up and not thinking about Desdemona only himself and although Eliots argument is focused on Othellos final soliloquy Leavis ech
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