AS, A2 and A-Level: English Literature Coursework and Essays

Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce (User Rating: 10.00 Length: 1.5 Pages)
Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce was one of thirteen children of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Bierce. At seventeen, Bierce attended the Kentucky Military Institute and two years later he served in the Union army of the Civil War. It was in ...
Beloved (User Rating: 2.00 Length: 4.4 Pages)
Beloved Toni Morrison's Beloved Summary When the slave-girl Sethe is 13, she arrives at the plantation "Sweet Home", where she gets married to Halle and has three children with him. After the farm is overtaken by a cruel master, the slaves try to escape, but they are caught and punish ...
Gimple the Fool (User Rating: 8.00 Length: 3.0 Pages)
Gimple the Fool Although Gimpel did not die a fool he lived his life primarily as a fool. Singer's use of "Gimpel the Fool" demonstrated two lower levels of the human scale. The first is the coward's ability to justify to himself the reasoning behind his behavior. The second is th ...
"Tearing off masks" Albee Coursework (Length: 2.3 Pages)
"Tearing off masks" Albee Coursework With a play that takes such obvious pleasure in the power and manipulation of language, it is very easy to find suitable analogies for what "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about. The problem lies in choosing the most apt. It would see ...
A Comparison Between Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ (Length: 4.5 Pages)
A Comparison Between Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' and Orwell's 'Animal Farm' In many ways 'Gulliver's Travels' is a unique work. There is little to compare it to in world literature and at first glance, 'Animal Farm' appears to be a very different kin ...
A Worn Path (User Rating: 5.50 Length: 2.5 Pages)
A Worn Path "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, is the tale of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandchild. It tells a story of sheer determination as Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. She strives forward desp ...
Analysis of two poems by Emily Dickinson : 1737 and 486 (User Rating: 5.33 Length: 1.9 Pages)
Analysis of two poems by Emily Dickinson : 1737 and 486 ` Emily Dickinson's poems are both fairly short lyrical compositions conveying and even sharing the deep thoughts, feelings and state of mind of a single speaker in a clear, informal language. 'Rearrange a 'Wife's' affectio ...
Because I Could Not Stop For Death (User Rating: 7.00 Length: 2.9 Pages)
Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson's two poems, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," revolve around one central theme: death. Though the two do centralize around the theme of death they both have slightly different messag ...
Blind as a Bat! (Length: 3.5 Pages)
Blind as a Bat! In the short stories "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver and "Girls at War" by Chinua Achebe, the theme of blindness is prevalent. In "The Cathedral" Robert, the man who comes to visit, is physically blind, but in his mind, he sees things more clearly than mo ...
Carol Ann Duffy explores different types of relationships in ‘Valentine’ and ‘Before you were mine’ (User Rating: 4.50 Length: 5.3 Pages)
Carol Ann Duffy explores different types of relationships in 'Valentine' and 'Before you were mine' The title of the poem 'Valentine' written by Carol Ann Duffy is very misleading. One would expect to read romantic love, instead she writes about cynical love. She has obvious ...
Compare and contrast the novels “Dear Nobody” and “Tess of the D’urbervilles” (User Rating: 8.00 Length: 7.3 Pages)
Compare and contrast the novels "Dear Nobody" and "Tess of the D'urbervilles" The two novels in question, "Dear Nobody" and "Tess of the D'urbervilles" (hereafter referred to as "Tess"), raise surprisingly similar issues for books written in ...
Compare and contrast the two novels ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell and ‘Oliver Twist (User Rating: 5.50 Length: 7.5 Pages)
Compare and contrast the two novels 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell and 'Oliver Twist 'Animal Farm' and 'Oliver Twist', by George Orwell and Charles Dickens respectively, are both novels written by two very different authors writing on a rather similar theme. Both novels ...
Compare the treatment of love in the poems by Herrick and Marvell. (Length: 3.3 Pages)
Compare the treatment of love in the poems by Herrick and Marvell. Both Herrick and Marvell deal with the philosophy 'Carpe Diem' (live for the day). 'Carpe Diem' means that time should not be wasted and that you should make the most out of time. In Herricks poem 'To the virgins ...
Compare the two short stories Tickets Please by D.H Lawrence and Tony Kytes (User Rating: 8.67 Length: 14.7 Pages)
Compare the two short stories Tickets Please by D.H Lawrence and Tony Kytes Tickets Please written by D. H. Lawrence is a 20th Century story. The protagonists are Annie and John Thomas a rather good-looking man who enjoys gallivanting. Annie wants her revenge on him as he drops her when she takes t ...
Comparison of Heany's 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' (Length: 4.2 Pages)
Comparison of Heany's 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' The poems 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' are both written by the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. In this piece of coursework I aim to analyse the two poems and compare them. The subject of the poem 'tr ...
Comparison of the parental figures of Laurie Lee in ‘Cider with Rosie’ and Pips in ‘Great Expectatio (Length: 5.6 Pages)
Comparison of the parental figures of Laurie Lee in 'Cider with Rosie' and Pips in 'Great Expectatio 'Great Expectations' and 'Cider with Rosie' are two very different books as were Pip and Laurie Lee's childhood. In this essay I will compare their parental figures, ...
Consider the presentation of Evil characters in Poetry: Shakespeare’s “Richard III”, Robert Browning (Length: 6.9 Pages)
Consider the presentation of Evil characters in Poetry: Shakespeare's "Richard III", Robert Browning The three pieces of poetry I will be looking at, Shakespeare's "Richard III", Robert Browning's "My last Duchess" and W.H. Auden's "Victor" sh ...
Could Jane Eyre Have Been Written In The Nineteen – Nineties (Length: 5.7 Pages)
Could Jane Eyre Have Been Written In The Nineteen - Nineties I do not think that Jane Eyre could have been written in this decade. This is because views on moral issues and society that are the driving force of the book do not have as much power or influence on society today. In the book, one of th ...
Critical Analysis of "Preludes" (Length: 4.4 Pages)
Critical Analysis of "Preludes" ` The main theme of the poem can be different depending on how the poem is interpreted but the central themes are the solitude of the female character and the loneliness of the dreary urban landscape. Imagery, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm all combine to revea ...
Discuss Joyce’s treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubline (Length: 10.7 Pages)
Discuss Joyce's treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubline Dubliners Discuss Joyce's treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubliners. "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country ...
Discuss The Presentation Of Childhood In Great Expectations And Cider With Rosie (Length: 3.0 Pages)
Discuss The Presentation Of Childhood In Great Expectations And Cider With Rosie Childhood is portrayed in many ways in both Great Expectations and Cider with Rosie. The ways in which the authors, Charles Dickens and Laurie Lee portray this are different and similar in many ways. At the beginning o ...
Discuss the presentation of family life in Odour of Chrysanthemums and Daughters of the Vicar (Length: 7.4 Pages)
Discuss the presentation of family life in Odour of Chrysanthemums and Daughters of the Vicar These two stories in Lawrence's compilation of short stories are very different, however, they contain many similarities in the way that D.H.Lawrence presents families, especially of the different clas ...
Discuss the presentation of the character of Catherine Winslow as a representation of the “New Woman (Length: 2.2 Pages)
Discuss the presentation of the character of Catherine Winslow as a representation of the "New Woman Catherine Winslow is described on her entrance in Act I, Sc. I as a woman approaching thirty, with "an air of masculinity which is at odd variance with her mother's intense femininity& ...
Dust Over the City (Length: 4.4 Pages)
Dust Over the City People inevitably encounter many problematic situations in their lifetime. Some problems may be more serious than others, but the fact remains that it is alsways their choice as to how they will react and whether or not they will "sink or swim." A survivor is aperson wh ...
Evelyn Waugh (User Rating: 6.33 Length: 3.3 Pages)
Evelyn Waugh At the last dinner, three years ago a fox had been brought in in a cage and stoned to death with Champagne bottles. What an evening that had been!ö This is not a serious literary creation, nor does the author intend it to be so. The tone of voice is from the start one of humour and as
Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce (User Rating: 10.00 Length: 1.5 Pages)
Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce was one of thirteen children of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Bierce. At seventeen, Bierce attended the Kentucky Military Institute and two years later he served in the Union army of the Civil War. It was in ...
Beloved (User Rating: 2.00 Length: 4.4 Pages)
Beloved Toni Morrison's Beloved Summary When the slave-girl Sethe is 13, she arrives at the plantation "Sweet Home", where she gets married to Halle and has three children with him. After the farm is overtaken by a cruel master, the slaves try to escape, but they are caught and punish ...
Gimple the Fool (User Rating: 8.00 Length: 3.0 Pages)
Gimple the Fool Although Gimpel did not die a fool he lived his life primarily as a fool. Singer's use of "Gimpel the Fool" demonstrated two lower levels of the human scale. The first is the coward's ability to justify to himself the reasoning behind his behavior. The second is th ...
"Tearing off masks" Albee Coursework (Length: 2.3 Pages)
"Tearing off masks" Albee Coursework With a play that takes such obvious pleasure in the power and manipulation of language, it is very easy to find suitable analogies for what "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about. The problem lies in choosing the most apt. It would see ...
A Comparison Between Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ and Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ (Length: 4.5 Pages)
A Comparison Between Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels' and Orwell's 'Animal Farm' In many ways 'Gulliver's Travels' is a unique work. There is little to compare it to in world literature and at first glance, 'Animal Farm' appears to be a very different kin ...
A Worn Path (User Rating: 5.50 Length: 2.5 Pages)
A Worn Path "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, is the tale of the unstoppable love and care of a grandmother for her grandchild. It tells a story of sheer determination as Phoenix Jackson makes a long journey into town to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson. She strives forward desp ...
Analysis of two poems by Emily Dickinson : 1737 and 486 (User Rating: 5.33 Length: 1.9 Pages)
Analysis of two poems by Emily Dickinson : 1737 and 486 ` Emily Dickinson's poems are both fairly short lyrical compositions conveying and even sharing the deep thoughts, feelings and state of mind of a single speaker in a clear, informal language. 'Rearrange a 'Wife's' affectio ...
Because I Could Not Stop For Death (User Rating: 7.00 Length: 2.9 Pages)
Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson's two poems, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," revolve around one central theme: death. Though the two do centralize around the theme of death they both have slightly different messag ...
Blind as a Bat! (Length: 3.5 Pages)
Blind as a Bat! In the short stories "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver and "Girls at War" by Chinua Achebe, the theme of blindness is prevalent. In "The Cathedral" Robert, the man who comes to visit, is physically blind, but in his mind, he sees things more clearly than mo ...
Carol Ann Duffy explores different types of relationships in ‘Valentine’ and ‘Before you were mine’ (User Rating: 4.50 Length: 5.3 Pages)
Carol Ann Duffy explores different types of relationships in 'Valentine' and 'Before you were mine' The title of the poem 'Valentine' written by Carol Ann Duffy is very misleading. One would expect to read romantic love, instead she writes about cynical love. She has obvious ...
Compare and contrast the novels “Dear Nobody” and “Tess of the D’urbervilles” (User Rating: 8.00 Length: 7.3 Pages)
Compare and contrast the novels "Dear Nobody" and "Tess of the D'urbervilles" The two novels in question, "Dear Nobody" and "Tess of the D'urbervilles" (hereafter referred to as "Tess"), raise surprisingly similar issues for books written in ...
Compare and contrast the two novels ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell and ‘Oliver Twist (User Rating: 5.50 Length: 7.5 Pages)
Compare and contrast the two novels 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell and 'Oliver Twist 'Animal Farm' and 'Oliver Twist', by George Orwell and Charles Dickens respectively, are both novels written by two very different authors writing on a rather similar theme. Both novels ...
Compare the treatment of love in the poems by Herrick and Marvell. (Length: 3.3 Pages)
Compare the treatment of love in the poems by Herrick and Marvell. Both Herrick and Marvell deal with the philosophy 'Carpe Diem' (live for the day). 'Carpe Diem' means that time should not be wasted and that you should make the most out of time. In Herricks poem 'To the virgins ...
Compare the two short stories Tickets Please by D.H Lawrence and Tony Kytes (User Rating: 8.67 Length: 14.7 Pages)
Compare the two short stories Tickets Please by D.H Lawrence and Tony Kytes Tickets Please written by D. H. Lawrence is a 20th Century story. The protagonists are Annie and John Thomas a rather good-looking man who enjoys gallivanting. Annie wants her revenge on him as he drops her when she takes t ...
Comparison of Heany's 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' (Length: 4.2 Pages)
Comparison of Heany's 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' The poems 'Trout' and 'Death of a Naturalist' are both written by the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. In this piece of coursework I aim to analyse the two poems and compare them. The subject of the poem 'tr ...
Comparison of the parental figures of Laurie Lee in ‘Cider with Rosie’ and Pips in ‘Great Expectatio (Length: 5.6 Pages)
Comparison of the parental figures of Laurie Lee in 'Cider with Rosie' and Pips in 'Great Expectatio 'Great Expectations' and 'Cider with Rosie' are two very different books as were Pip and Laurie Lee's childhood. In this essay I will compare their parental figures, ...
Consider the presentation of Evil characters in Poetry: Shakespeare’s “Richard III”, Robert Browning (Length: 6.9 Pages)
Consider the presentation of Evil characters in Poetry: Shakespeare's "Richard III", Robert Browning The three pieces of poetry I will be looking at, Shakespeare's "Richard III", Robert Browning's "My last Duchess" and W.H. Auden's "Victor" sh ...
Could Jane Eyre Have Been Written In The Nineteen – Nineties (Length: 5.7 Pages)
Could Jane Eyre Have Been Written In The Nineteen - Nineties I do not think that Jane Eyre could have been written in this decade. This is because views on moral issues and society that are the driving force of the book do not have as much power or influence on society today. In the book, one of th ...
Critical Analysis of "Preludes" (Length: 4.4 Pages)
Critical Analysis of "Preludes" ` The main theme of the poem can be different depending on how the poem is interpreted but the central themes are the solitude of the female character and the loneliness of the dreary urban landscape. Imagery, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm all combine to revea ...
Discuss Joyce’s treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubline (Length: 10.7 Pages)
Discuss Joyce's treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubline Dubliners Discuss Joyce's treatment of the theme of paralysis in the stories on childhood in his novel Dubliners. "My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country ...
Discuss The Presentation Of Childhood In Great Expectations And Cider With Rosie (Length: 3.0 Pages)
Discuss The Presentation Of Childhood In Great Expectations And Cider With Rosie Childhood is portrayed in many ways in both Great Expectations and Cider with Rosie. The ways in which the authors, Charles Dickens and Laurie Lee portray this are different and similar in many ways. At the beginning o ...
Discuss the presentation of family life in Odour of Chrysanthemums and Daughters of the Vicar (Length: 7.4 Pages)
Discuss the presentation of family life in Odour of Chrysanthemums and Daughters of the Vicar These two stories in Lawrence's compilation of short stories are very different, however, they contain many similarities in the way that D.H.Lawrence presents families, especially of the different clas ...
Discuss the presentation of the character of Catherine Winslow as a representation of the “New Woman (Length: 2.2 Pages)
Discuss the presentation of the character of Catherine Winslow as a representation of the "New Woman Catherine Winslow is described on her entrance in Act I, Sc. I as a woman approaching thirty, with "an air of masculinity which is at odd variance with her mother's intense femininity& ...
Dust Over the City (Length: 4.4 Pages)
Dust Over the City People inevitably encounter many problematic situations in their lifetime. Some problems may be more serious than others, but the fact remains that it is alsways their choice as to how they will react and whether or not they will "sink or swim." A survivor is aperson wh ...
Evelyn Waugh (User Rating: 6.33 Length: 3.3 Pages)
Evelyn Waugh At the last dinner, three years ago a fox had been brought in in a cage and stoned to death with Champagne bottles. What an evening that had been!ö This is not a serious literary creation, nor does the author intend it to be so. The tone of voice is from the start one of humour and as