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… Biography Charles Dickens was one of the greatest novelists in the 19th century. He was known for excellent "sensible" writing and his ability to describe his society within the characteristics of…

… Discuss A simple love story is where a girl meets boy, falls in love, girls loses boy then they get back together and live together in harmony. For the Jane Eyre novel there are many factors that lift it above a simple love story. The novel…

… Allan Poe created a love relationship that truly startled the audience. The lovers of the story, the narrator, whose name remains unknown, and Ligeia are involved in a rather strange and unfamiliar relationship. The love relationship between…

… wild-beat nature..." Plato, The Republic, Book IX There is a second side to mankind, which is the uncivilized side. Even in the best of mankind, the wild beast can come out resulting in brutal wounding, drugs, alcohol and even killing. In the…

… a rewriting of Jane Eyre? What do you think is Jean Rhys reasons for re-writing Jane Eyre? (Quoting from the author's letters where she discusses this issue will earn you extra points). Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys shows a similarity of…

… the talent of introducing each reader to his or her own subconscious fears. As the first writer to initiate horror, and mystery into literature and poetry, he is blessed- or perhaps cursed- with an imagination that set higher standards in the…

… time period but their writing was very different from each other. Though they are both transcendentalists, or at least their writing seems to be, they have very different styles of writing. They are both pioneers in the field of poetry for their own…

… States in the years following the Second World War created a new American identity. A television in the living room, a Cadillac in the driveway, one boy, one girl, a wife in the kitchen, and Rex by the fireplace. This is the stereotypical, conservative…

… writer named Anton Chekhov. He wrote many outstanding and world renowned books and other pieces of literature. Perhaps one of the things he is most famous for is his simple response to a very common question. When asked "What is the meaning of life?"…

… "He regards his animals simply as stepping stones of his career. He is careless about the educational value of his establishment." Being in a remote town the zoo is not funded and therefore was "lacking all the important animals"; basically all…