Essays and Research Papers on British Literature

This 5 page paper discusses the playwright's notes and the likely audience reaction to the play. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 5 page paper which compares the character of Alex from Anthony Burgess’ novel “Clockwork Orange” to the Alex in the Stanley Kubrick film of the same name. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 7 page paper looks at Emily Bronte's well known novel and provides an analysis of the concluding chapter. Quotes from the chapter are included. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper relates the belief that Ayn Rand’s story Anthem challenges the perceived benefits of a collectivist society. Rand suggests that this type of regression is necessary because of the level at which man becomes ingrained and “swallowed up” by the collective identity and the underlying reasons why personal identity is dependent ...

This 5 page paper provides a comparative view of the authorship of Charlotte and Anne Bronte. Charlotte Bronte's story Jane Eyre provides a distinct look at the element in 19th century England that led to a woman's separation, her enclosure, and her subsequent empowerment following the downfall of one man. Anne Bronte, Charlotte's ...

An 8 page essay/research paper that offers an explication of Victorian poet A.C. Swinburne's poem "The Sundew." Drawing heavily on an article by J. Smith (2003), the writer argues that Swinburne used this small carnivorous plant to establish a view of nature that was at odds with the climate of the Victorian age, which ...

A 4 page paper which examines Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” in relationship to her position as a woman of her times. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page paper which examines how women’s roles and tensions are explored in the Victorian text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines such aspects as the squalid conditions of so-called charity institutions like the Lowood School and the limitations placed on females by the gender roles society demanded them to fulfill made a great impression upon the readers of the time, but are largely overlooked today. No additional sources are ...

A 3 page overview of this based-on-fact expose of the field of psychiatry during World War I. This book tells the story of English officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon and his interactions with psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh. Sassoon has refused to fight and been declared shell shocked. ...

A 3 page essay that contrasts the social position of Mary Shelley and Karl Marx. The writer argues that both writers looked at the rapidly evolving industrialization of Europe with a critical eye, Shelley through fiction and Marx through his political writing, such as the Communist Manifesto. This examination of Marx's political perspective on ...

This 3 page paper discusses the theme of transformation as it appears in the novel, Enigma of Arrival, by V.S. Naipaul. Quotes cited. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5 page paper examines the similarities and differences between the characters of the Pardoner and the Parson. While both men were preachers, their motivations, values, impact and goals were vastly different from one another. In this way, this author provides poignant religious and political commentary. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an analysis of the four characters that were depicted by Chaucer as 'ideal'. This paper determines why these characters were chosen above the others and analyzes their character in relation to the others as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper uses three different passages from Chaucer's, "Troilus and Criseyde" to highlight the use of war imagery. Furthermore, this paper analyzes the use of the imagery and how it impacts the story as a whole. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 3 page paper which examines what it is about Jane that Rochester finds attractive, and how Rochester, in Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” changes as the novel progresses. No additional sources cited.

A 4 page overview of this 1960s novel. Set in the 1930s in Edinburgh Scotland, this tale is one of an eccentric female teacher at a private girls school. The author of this paper contends that the teacher’s downfall can be attributed not to maliciousness but to the insight of one of her ...

This 4 page paper discusses the idea that for confession to be meaningful there has to be self knowledge. This is undertaken in the context of James Hogg’s book; The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The bibliography cites 3 sources.

A 6 page essay that examines Sarah Scott's utopian novel A Description of Millenium Hall (1762). The writer argues that the main problem with utopian fiction is how to make an ideal society interesting to the reader. Scott handles this problem adroitly through the employment of Sir George Ellison, a wealthy merchant traveling ...

A 12 page paper which examines how the text begins as a realist novel but ultimately ends like a fairytale. No additional sources are used.

A paper which compares Orwell's 1984 and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, looking at themes such as free will, the nature of good and evil, social control and violence. Bibliography lists 2 sources

A selection of definitions from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language which illustrate the way in which he included his personal opinions and views in the definitions. Bibliography lists 3 sources

This 5 page paper discusses the use of satire in the works of Voltaire and Cervantes. Specific examples offered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper analyzes Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, and compares it to a game of chess. Specific examples and quotes offered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A paper which looks at the theory that Jane Eyre begins as a realist novel and ends as a fairy tale, and concludes that this is not the case: Bronte conforms to the realist genre throughout the narrative. Bibliography lists 5 sources