Abbey Road

A Discussion of the Gothic tradition in the novels “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen and “The mysteries of Udolpho” by Ann Radcliffe. The genre of Gothic fiction has been a strong writing tradition since its birth in 1764 with the publishing of Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”. The genre is a mix of both romance and horror with its clearest distinctions being a love of foreign setting and gloomy old buildings, a strong hero, swooning heroine and the constant looming of a monster or…

Jane Austen and Societal Exposure in Northanger Abbey Biographical Summary Jane Austen, a classic literary author, was born on December 16, 1775 in Hampshire, England. Her parents are Cassandra Leigh Austen and Reverend George Austen, who raised eight children: James, George, Edward, Henry, Jane, Cassandra, Francis, and Charles. Austen was introduced to her love of writing through the plays she and her family wrote and performed for each other. For most of their life Austen and her sister…

A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters takes place in the year 1137 CE. It centers on Brother Cadfael, a monk at Shrewsbury Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in medieval England. He studies and grows herbs. A prior at the monastery decides that the Shrewsbury Abbey must have the relics of a saint for their chapel. They travel to Wales to recover the bones of Saint Winifred. Some of the monks travel to Wales and with the consent of Prince Owain of Gwynedd and the Bishop of Bangor, they go to the…

Naming of place and setting in Villette- Sarcasm and Authorial Commentary Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’ makes a conscious and dramatic departure from her creative norm when considering the names given to both character and place within the novel. The underlying significance of the French language, the naming of place and of character will be discussed in this essay. Indeed, Dunbar argues quite clearly that Villette is ‘almost entirely unremarked’ (1960) in this particular method, likely because…

Ragnarok by A.S Byatt is a novel about the experiences and internal struggles of a young girl who grew up in England during the World War II. The young girl, known as The Thin Child, lives in the England countryside as a result of the raging war in the city and of its surroundings. Throughout the novel the Thin Girl ponders many questions concerning why is the war happening?, is her father coming back? and whether or not the germans are good or bad people? To make sense of these questions, the…

“In every walk with nature one recieves far more than he seeks” -John Muir. The poem Lines Written A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is about a man returning to a place in nature with his sister to see how he has changed as a man, and grown to take things in instead of moving at such a fast pace. The poem uses examples of Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance throughout the work. Alliteration is the repition of initial constant sounds. In the peom he uses, “That in this…

The woman is not at all in her thirties, nor did she have kids that were ages five through nine. The woman in the poem would probably be scared if something was thrown at her, like a hard task. But in the end, mother’s are still mother’s. They have kids who they usually love and would do anything they can to not hurt their children, and that’s what the woman in the poem is like. At the end of the day, Somebody’s Mother, By Mary Dow Brine is about an old woman who can’t find the nerve to cross…

to discover how roads connect people and the effects on the world. On his adventures he meets many people along the way. On each journey, he usually knows someone or has some type of connection to a person who has been to or lives in the current destination. The layout of the book is broken into chapters and mini chapters, which reflect on the main chapter. Each chapter represents a new location and a new road. Conover travels all over the globe to research and experience roads and their…

“He climbed the bank through the cane to check the road. Dark and black and trackless where it crossed the open country” (McCarthy 202). In the book The Road, written by Cormac McCarthy, a boy and his father are struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The boy and his father haven’t eaten for a while and they had just discussed who got to drink the dirty water they collected from the river bank. The father began to look for the road in order to return to their journey of searching…

By applying the GIS spatial analyst, the results show that the Mill area has a high level of accessibility and connectivity (See Figure 16&17). More buses are served along Main Street and more local roads are connected to the Mill area. It is convenient for people to get access to the Mill. Findings The design elements discussion refers to a limited reference and mainly focuses on the related works that are widely known. The outcome of the analysis is the basic result to be appropriate for a…