Essays and Research Papers on British Literature

A 5 page paper which discusses aspects of Sense and Sensibility as it relates to marriage. The paper addresses why finding a husband was so important for women of the time period and what happens to one who never marries. The paper also discusses the characteristics of Elinor who is the main character and the one who is the ...

A paper which looks at the developments in the current techniques of genetic engineering, the social and ethical issues involved in monitoring such techniques, and the way in which these concerns can be related to the themes of Brave New World.

Gawain, the Green Knight & Chaucer’s Tales – Courtesy Personified?: This 8-page essay examines ‘courtesy’ as a code of ethics in Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Using these works issues of courtesy will be evaluated in order to determine whether or not invoking its precepts is a help ...

A 5 page paper which examines how the literary elements of nineteenth-century romanticism are displayed in the novel. No additional sources are used.

A 5 page paper which discusses the significance of the furmity woman in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy. The woman appears only briefly but stands to be significant in presenting the reader with substance to elements such as action, theme, and development of the story. No additional sources cited.

A 9 page paper which provides a background on the novel’s author before exploring the theme of confinement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the novel with respect to the statement, “The unusual and the unexpected are characteristic features of the plot of a good literary work.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page paper which summarizes the novel, providing insight on the plot, characters, themes, literary devices and style. Also included are the summaries of two articles of literary criticism. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines the English writer’s life and career, provides a detailed analysis of her novel, Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave, and argues for her inclusion in the canon of major English writers. Bibliography lists 10 sources..

This 5 page report discusses Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” and whether or not there is a moral to the story. The report asserts that there certainly is a moral but that the moral is multi-faceted and offers numerous areas for consideration of the moral in the story. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6 page paper considers the way in which both choice and destiny are portrayed in this fourteenth century work. The writer uses The Knights Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale to examine choice and destiny and how they are seen and manifested in the tales. The bibliography cites 1 source.

A 5 page paper which provides a brief overview of each book, considers how the narrative voices in each affect the reader’s response to the novels (empathy), examines the underlying message in each book, whether or not the author’s point of view intrudes or leads to conclusions about themes and characters, discusses whether or not ...

(5 pp) Reconciliation is not an easy process, whether you are the character in a Romantic novel or walking now the streets of LA. Considering that Bronte was writing about the process, well over a century ago, we might think that certain aspects of the human psyche will have changed. The author ...

(5 pp)The complex system of framing devices used in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, where in some parts, the Creature is telling the story to Victor Frankenstein, who, then tells the story to-Captain Robert Walton, who chooses to -recount the story in letters to-Margaret Saville. This story-telling device, not only let's us know ...

An 8 page overview of the complexity of emotions and inner feelings which characterize each of these novels. Asserts that the authors have been shaped by a variety of factors, not the least of which was the Modernist movement which was prevalent during their careers. The relevance of the writings of Freud, Nietzsche ...

Swift, Pope, Racine and Moliere emphasized the political and religious organization of society in a manner that was understandable to the audiences of the time. This 5 page paper explores the use of satire in Swift, Pope and Moliere as well as the classical heroism of Racine's play, Phaedra, as a means of presenting their attitudes toward reason. ...

A 5 page paper which examines the character’s functions in the novel. No additional sources are used.

A 5 page paper which examines the texts as a way of illustrating and defining literary modernism. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

5 pages. The focus of this paper is the different perspectives of London based on three pieces of literature from different time periods. Examined in this paper are William Wordsworth's The Prelude, William Blake's Songs of Experience and E. M. Forster's Howard's End. All three of these writers have their own view of the city of London, ...

A 5 page paper which analyzes how point-of-view shapes the exposition, prose, style, tone, plot, theme, and character of these works. No additional sources are used.

A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme of authority in each. No additional sources are used.

This 5 page report discusses the psychoanalytical aspects of the short story by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) “The Lost Titian” that was published in 1856. It is worth noting that her works’ apparent simplicity often masks a darker and far more intellectual stream of consciousness. From a psychoanalytical perspective it is quite clear that there is much more to the writer and ...

A 6 page paper which examines this relationship between mistress and maid with particular emphasis on the children. No additional sources are used.

A five page paper which looks at the life and works of the English novelist George Eliot, in terms of the influence which her upbringing and personal relationships had on her work and her effective use of descriptive techniques, the authorial voice and social observation in her novels. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which describes differences between specific characters in "The Man of Mode" by Sir George Etherege. The characters discussed are Lady Loveit, Bellinda, and Lady Harriet, and Dorimant, Sir Fopling and Medley. No additional sources cited.