Essays and Research Papers on British Literature

A 3 page paper on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” No additional sources cited.

This 12 page paper relates some of the themes of Hamlet and Oedipus. There are a number of assumptions that are made by women about female characters in both Oedipus and Hamlet, and these assumptions not only define how women perceive their roles, but shape their actions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the narrative voice and dialogue in chapter 34 of Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

A 5 page paper that, first of all, offer a concise book review of Animal Farm, summarizing the plot and stating the writer's reaction (roughly 1.5 pages). Then, the writer offers a formal book analysis that argues that Animal Farm can be read as a feminist fable, as well as one that mirrors historical events ...

This 8 page paper argues that although most people consider capitalism and Socialism as polar opposites, both are oppressive and both can provoke a strong reaction such that members of the society will seek a utopia to replace it. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper considers one of the detailed episodes in the book, the tale of the Man of the Hill; why Fielding included it; what it suggests about the novel itself; what it contributes to the growth of the hero; and how the novel would be different without it. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 5 page research paper/essay. Beginning in 1642 and for the next eighteen years, the theaters of England were officially closed under the restrictions of Puritan rule (Restoration Drama). There were, of course, evasions of the law, but whatever performances were given were held in secret in private homes. In 1660, the Stuart dynasty was ...

An 8 page essay. Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding were British contemporaries writing in the early eighteenth century. Richardson's Pamela (1740) and Fielding's Tom Jones (1729) each address what these authors perceived to be problems within the British social structure. In Tom Jones, Fielding takes a firm stand against the practice of arranged marriages and ...

A 3 page review of H.G. Wells’ work “The Invisible Man.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the 1895 novel with the two cinematic interpretations. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 8 page paper explores D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking Horse Winner" using psychoanalytical critical theory and reader-response. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" and why it can be considered a modernist novel. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page essay that examines Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In the spring of 1899, when Joseph Conrad's slim novel Heart of Darkness was first published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine, the author had no way of predicting that his story would remain both provocative and controversial over the next century (Mitchell 20). ...

A paper which considers Du Maurier's "Rebecca" and Barker's "The Ghost Road" with specific reference to the philosophical perspectives expressed by Kant and Bourdieu. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page report on “Black Beauty” by Ann Sewell. No additional sources cited.

A 5 page essay. Moliere, the seventeenth century French playwright, and Oscar Wilde, the nineteenth century British satirist, while separated by centuries, held similar views regarding fundamental human nature. Each of these writers looked at societal dictums concerning virtue and decorum with a jaundiced eye and satirized the idea that these injunctions are even plausible ...

A 5 page paper which argues that Heathcliff’s revenge in Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” my well be justified. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 7 page paper which examines how Jeremy Collier’s pamphlet, “A Short View on Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage” (1698) led to intense censorship of Restoration comedies and dramas that were performed on the English stage, culminating in the Licensing Act of 1737. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page analysis of Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Sharer” as it involves the element of “self.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page essay on Huxley's last novel. In his last major work, Island, A Novel (1962), Aldous Huxley purposefully combines Eastern and Western ideals to describe an island society that offers a possible template to the modern world for how to emerge from the dystopian culture of the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, Huxley depicts his ...

A 3 page paper which contrasts the narrative techniques of Jane Austen in “Pride and Prejudice” and Joseph Conrad in “The Heart of Darkness.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.

11 pages in length. To struggle within a relationship is nothing extraordinary between two lovers; however, to base an entire relationship upon perpetual mental and emotional exertion represents the basis upon which Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" addresses the nature of conflict and compromise amidst love. Charlotte and Elizabeth share little in their ...

A 3 page paper which examines how the theme of nature vs. nurture is presented in the early chapters of the classic novel. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts these two works by employing standard poetic analysis. No additional sources are used.

This 7 page paper discusses the realization of the characters Clarissa Dalloway and Lucrezia Smith, wife of Septimus Warren Smith, in the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf. Bibliography lists 4 sources.