Essays and Research Papers on British Literature

This 10 page paper discusses the novel "Hotel" by Arthur Hailey, and the challenges faced by the fictional St. Gregory. It also discusses how those challenges relate to the real world hospitality industry. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the importance of the physical locations in "Vanity Fair," and discusses Lord Steyne's house extensively. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 11 page paper is a literary analysis of the Oscar Wilde play, "The Importance of Being Earnest." Annotated bibliography lists 10 sources.

An 8 page research paper. Nineteenth century British writers William Thackeray and Thomas Carlyle each address the topic of money and the role that financial status played in English society in their tests, respectively, Vanity Fair and Past and Present. The stances that these authors take are similar in that both of them picture ...

A 10 page analysis of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. No additional sources cited.

A 6 page essay that explicates Chaucer's description of the Shipman from the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. A close reading of Chaucer's description of the Shipman tells the reader a great deal about this man, such as where he stands in British society, and something of his character and political orientation. In so ...

This 14 page paper examines this character in George Bernard Shaw's play. The play is examined in historical context and the character is analyzed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page essay that analyzes "Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth, who uses a perspective that brings in the triad of the past, present and future as a means of understanding the fundamental reality of human existence. It is a fact of life that the joy of living ...

A 6 page analysis of The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how women are represented in relationship to being independent in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. No additional sources cited.

This 5 page paper discusses Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" and argues that the Creature actually exhibits more qualities of humanity than his creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper discusses the characterization of Maggie, Tom and their parents in Eliot's novel, and argues that society assigns the gender roles that it considers suitable. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines how an exceprt from the novel illustrates the success of the relationship between Anne and the Captain. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.

A 3 page essay that discusses how George Eliot in Middlemarch and William M. Thackeray in Vanity Fair craft vivid female characters, who are largely responsible for conveying the themes of the authors in both novels. Becky Sharp and Rosamond Vincy seem cast from the same mold and in both works they convey the disdain ...

This 4 page paper discusses some of the psychological themes in the film "Lord of the Flies," based on William Golding's novel. Bibliography lists 4 sources

This 3 page paper discusses the theme of self preservation in Greene's short story "The Destructors." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses some aspects of Huxley's life and how they impacted his writing, particularly "Brave New World." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page essay that discusses the Monster as a symbol of the fate of women in Victorian society. The writer argues that the way in which Shelley presents Victor Frankenstein's experimentation suggests a sexual ethos and a desire to establish dominance over nature in much the same way that male identity was predicated ...

This 3 page paper discusses the way in which romantic love can lead to change in the characters in "Wide Sargasso Sea." Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page essay that discusses the beginning of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The writer focuses on the description of Jane as a child and what this tells the reader about the character. No additional sources cited.

A 10 page research paper that examines how Jonathan Swift's classic Gulliver's Travels, which is a biting adult satire was transformed into a staple of children's literature. The writer summarizes Jackie Stallcup's insightful history and analysis of Gulliver's myriad children's adaptations. This review establishes the fact that adaptations of classics into children's books says a ...

A 5 page paper which examines the characters’ resistance to marriage as seen in William Congreve’s The Way of the World and Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 6 page essay that contrasts and compares two "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," author unknown, written circa 1375-1400, and "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Prologue" by Geoffrey Chaucer. Both works offer the modern reader insight into the worldview and values of medieval society. Both narratives uphold the values emphasized by the medieval ...

A 6 page research paper that considers the influence of Columbus and More on Renaissance culture. As a history term, the Renaissance refers, approximately speaking, to a period beginning in the mid-fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, during which western Europeans "rediscovered aspects of the Classical past that simulated new ideas about man's place in ...

A 4 page essay that examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The story of Frankenstein is very familiar. A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, robs graveyards for body parts, assembles them and reanimates them as a monster. While the emphasis in film adaptations of Mary Shelley's gripping nineteenth century gothic thriller has been on the horror that the monster ...