Essays and Research Papers on British Literature

A 10 page paper which examines how rebellious femme fatales were treated in these so-called nineteenth-century society plays. Specifically discussed are what it is about these women that made them what society deemed as ‘rebellious,’ how each playwright depicted their respective femme fatales, and what the differences in these portrayals reveal about Victorian society ...

A 6 page paper which examines self-image v self-respect and love v servitude in Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre.” The paper also compares and contrasts the story of Jane Eyre with Cinderella. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

3 pages in length. The Elizabethan age was a time of expanding confidence - and indeed bravado - among many Englishmen, a reality about which Christopher Marlowe was warning his contemporaries in Dr. Faustus. Indeed, the notion of individualism was gaining great momentum during this Renaissance period, where heretofore concerns of a social ...

A 5 page paper which examines how the overhearing or indirect information about others and actions illustrate how heroine Anne Elliot blossoms into her own woman with a firm and individualistic set of attitudes and opinions about herself and others by the conclusion of the novel. No additional sources are used.

A 3 page paper which examines what Moll Flanders' attitude is towards money as seen in the novel "Moll Flanders" by Daniel Defoe. No additional sources cited.

A 3 page paper explicating Robert Herrick's "Julia's Petticoat." Herrick appears to be describing the fantasy of a good man, one who would be mortified were his thoughts somehow to become public knowledge. He is a secret voyeur and quite harmless, but he enjoys giving his imagination free reign from time to time, ...

A 6 page paper which examines how the feminist movement as an idea of radical change is represented in these works, including the concepts of female education, primogeniture, and equal rights. No additional sources are used.

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the style of Virginia Woolf and George Orwell. The works examines are "The Death of the Moth" and "Street Haunting" by Virginia Woolf and "Such, Such Were the Joys" by George Orwell. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines the role of women in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the Henry James' characters of Isabel from "Portrait of a Lady" and Hyacinth from "Princess Casamassima." No additional sources cited.

A 3 page essay that compares 2 works by Blake and King. Poet William Blake in his eighteenth century verse and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in his twentieth century rhetoric each addressed issues of morality and ethics during their respective eras. Examination of Blake's The Poison Tree and King's Letter from Birmingham Jail reveals ...

A 7 page research paper that examines the poetry of George Gordon, Lord Byron in regards to his use of temporality. This examination of Byron's verse examines specifically this sense of temporality and how it affects his portrayal of the heroic protagonists. Essentially this shows that the Byronic hero stands outside of temporality due to ...

A 3 page paper which compares the film "The Man Who Would Be King" with the novel "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 10 page paper examines three books that involve upper class extravagances, adultery and intrigue. The three books discussed are Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Severed Head and The Needle's Eye. The works are analyzed primarily from Marxist and feminist perspectives. No additional sources cited.

This 4-page paper presents a hypothesis in the Sherlock Holmes movie Dressed to Kill, discusses it in detail, determines the tests that Holmes makes to solve the case, than explains how it is solved.

This 6 page paper discusses George Eliot's review of Wilhelm Riehl's description of German peasant life, and whether or not her assessment of his work matches the way she treats her characters in Felix Holt; it also discusses her use of landscape to define character. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper looks at this E.M. Forster work and interprets it based on the class dichotomy represented in the novel. Marxism is discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 7 page research paper that compares Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall (1603) to his source material, which is drawn from the Annals by the ancient Roman historian Tacitus. This discussion of both works demonstrates that Jonson was scrupulous in adhering to historical accuracy and also explores the possible reasons why Jonson would make historical ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the central themes of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the characters and central images in Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In Mary/ Maria / Matilda by Mary Wollstonecraft, also known as Mary Shelly, the story of Maria illustrates many of the obstacles and barriers to women seen in early modern European society. This 4 page paper examines these issues and looks at how they are presented to the reader. The bibliography cites 1 source.

A 3 page paper which examines the most salient aspects of the novel as they related to American society. No additional sources are used.

This 3 page paper compares and contrasts George Orwell’s “Shooting the Elephant” and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat” to assess the way in which they both depict the human heart with the aim of identifying which may be the most effective. The bibliography cites 2 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a reading assessment of one segment of the Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster. No additional sources cited.

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the importance of the use of birds as symbols in the works of Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer, 14th century author and poet, integrated metaphors created through different physical symbols into the imagery of his works. One of Chaucer's earliest works, Parlement of Foules, for example, integrates ...