Category: College Essays

In the 19th century , the society was patriarchal, dominated by men, and women were deprived of all rights. The society was constructed and conducted in a way that women were completely dependent on men in all cultural domains- familial, religious , political, economic ,social , legal and artistic. This is the background ,in which…(Continue Reading)

The theme of death and the dying have pervaded numerous works of art throughout the ages. “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas, “Remember” by Christina Rosetti, and John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” are distinguished examples of poems where the matter of death is being explored. These convey a mood…(Continue Reading)

In Herman Melville’s classic tale Moby Dick the author paints a clear picture concerning good and evil. These two forces are depicted everywhere in the story and are the back bone of all novels and tales. Good versus evil, love versus hate, forgiveness versus vengeance are all encompassed within this novel. This is the reason…(Continue Reading)

This Project will focus on the fiction of Hanif Kureishi, namely; The Buddha of suburbia, The Black Album, My Son the fanatic and Something to tell you. It will explore the ways in which Kureishi uses overlapping constructs of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and religion to inflect the postcolonial identities of his fictional characters. The…(Continue Reading)

The process of analysis for this English Extended Essay on “Interpretation of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri was definitely a journey where in I discovered and learnt a lot. When I was assigned this project, initially I was a little apprehensive about how to execute this extended essay. My teacher gave me a good briefing about…(Continue Reading)

James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the life of Stephen Dedalus who is a young artist that is pure and idealistic. As he matures, Stephen recognizes how the world filled with injustice and disharmony has numerous shortcomings and that it is incomplete. His experience with his home, school, church,…(Continue Reading)

Author of ‘Looking for Alibrandi’, Melina Marchetta, discusses strong aspects of Australian life through the portrayal of the characters in the novel. Josephine Alibrandi is an Italian- Australian teen, attending an exclusive Catholic school on a scholarship. Socially outcast by her prejudiced peers who are from families of high social standing, Josie longs to be…(Continue Reading)

Romanism is a phenomenon of European culture of the 18th-19th centuries that stimulated writers to scientific and technological progress, the ideological and artistic trend in European and American culture. This period is characterized by self-assertion of spiritual and creative life of people, the image of strong passions and strong character, spirituality and healing nature. English…(Continue Reading)

Compare and Contrast Frankenstein and Blade Runner Various perspectives of which some are spiritual and others are scientific guide human identity. Frankenstein and Blade Runner are two literature pieces that clearly portray the differences that exist in these perspectives that help define human identity. While some people define identity based on such things as family,…(Continue Reading)

The comparison of Paris and London sections of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. Both reality and fiction play an important role in George Orwell’s literary sociography, Down and Out in Paris and London.1 However, instead of analysing these elements, I would rather compare the two metropolis, Paris and London, through the…(Continue Reading)