Essays 1741 - 1770
This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...
In three pages this essay presents a summary and examination of the major points featured in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. ...
Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...
In five pages this essay focuses on the Prioress as described in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales and argues that whil...
This essay presents in in depth analysis of The Merchant's Tale. The author presents a synopsis of the story, the theme of sarcas...
In three pages this essay considers how Chaucer offered an insightful commentary regarding medieval society's view of women in the...
This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...
In an essay consisting of six pages what can be gleaned from these author's respective societies and times based on the stories is...
An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...
It is no surprise that Conrad was a critic of British colonialism in Africa. This was not a bitter disregard for the whole country...
In eight pages the life and career of Daniel Defoe is examined in this essay with text quotes and two examples of critical analysi...
This work is discussed in depth and realism is the focus of attention along with a look at characterization. This paper looks at h...
Education is discussed in this general analysis of this classic work. Mr. Gradgrind is a character given much attention in this th...
This classic Dickens work is summarized and evaluated for elements such as symbolism and characterization. Thematic elements are a...
In eight pages this essay considers Satan's physical pain as described in Paradise Lost by John Milton. There are no other source...
towards his music. Perhaps what Orpheus is best known for his ill-fated marriage to the nymph Eurydice. Soon after the wedding...
In two pages the political and social messages contained within this essay by George Orwell are discussed. There is no bibliograp...
have been a jewess was sitting up in the bow with a little boy of about three in her arms? (Orwell, 1949, p. 10); the little life ...
This 4 page essay explores the development of the title character of Tess in Hardy's Tess of the D'Ubervilles. Bibliography lists ...
In four pages this essay discusses the themes related to this novel by Kurt Vonnegut including human beings and how they handle wa...
In three pages this essay presents a critical analysis of this work in an examination of various topics including treatment of ani...
only six hours a day, leaving plenty of time for leisure. Everyone lives in a pleasant home surrounded by a garden. Communities ha...
related poems that I never read entitled The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. In my research, I found that other fiction he published ...
point: "Thus my character is in part made of the stimulus which other people provide, and is not mine, as yours are" (267). It s...
This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...
. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional s...
In ten pages this essay examines how language complements Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' as each text ...
In an essay consisting of five pages the development of Sherlock Holmes's sidekick is traced. There are six bibliographic sources...
of restrained antagonism -- somewhat similar to the "Cold War" of the 1950s and 60s -- simmered just under the surface, threatenin...
In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...