Jane Austen

Of Mice and Men Expository Essay A human. man or woman, lest they lose hope or sanity, will clamor to any lengths to improve their position in life,, they will struggle to find peace of mind, prosperity, and happiness. In the dramatic novel, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, the struggles of mankind to fulfill personal hopes and dreams is brought under the spotlight and exemplified for the reader. Curley’s Wife, a temptress by trade, is doing what she can to achieve peace of mind and…

There are opposite ends of every spectrum, and a happy medium in the middle. The combinations are endless; too hungry and too full, too hot and too cold, too bright and too dark, etc. The same goes for human traits; while some are more important than others, the balance is more often than not off. A lucky few are gifted with the perfect amount of each trait, sitting right between the poles. Tom Stoppard shapes Thomasina, the one character with the perfect balance of thinking with her brain and…

In order to analyse the extent to which Catherine the Great can be thought of as an enlightened despot, it is first necessary to define the term enlightenment. Immanuel Kant’s definition is effective to consider how far Catherine fulfils this description. Kant suggests that a lack of courage and resolution to use one’s own understanding without the guidance of another creates a self-incurred immaturity from which one must emerge in order to be enlightened. By saying, ‘Have courage to use your…

The purpose of the advertisement is to persuade other students to read Dance of Shadows, by Yelena Black. The choices that I’ve made to ensure I fulfil this purpose is trying to make the advertisement eye-catching and having enough information on the advertisement, making people want to read the novel and find out what happens. The target audience of the advertisement are girls from the age of thirteen or have a high reading level. These people are the target audience because they would enjoy…

Elizabeth proves herself being a fallible heroine from the very beginning of the story. Her quickly made opinion of Mr Darcy shows an example of hurt pride leading to deep prejudice. The moment she decides to despise Mr Darcy is important for the plot as all the following mistakes are based on this particular one. Mr Bingley tries to convince Mr Darcy to dance with Elizabeth but Darcy does not feel attracted to her and his comment about Elizabeth being “tolerable, but not handsome enough to…

books ever since she was little. She’s the author of The New York Times Bestselling series, “The Mortal Instruments.” There are many events in her life that shaped the who she is today. Some events are when she traveled with her parents, When she read Jane Austen’s, “The Beautiful Cassandra,” and when she wrote fanfictions and was an assistant editor at “The Hollywood Reporter.” According to “Cassandra Clare,” Ms. Clare traveled to many different places when she was younger(famousauthors.org).…

Joyce Carol Oates is an admired writer famous for her amazing novels, short stories, and more. Born on June 16, 1938 in the small rural town of Lockport, New York, she began writing as a young child. She grew up in the country and started her education in a small one-room school house where books and writing sources were very limited. Early on as a child Oates quickly developed a love for writing and literature. Her first inspiration was the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, a gift from…

In the diary, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, the character Anne Frank can be described as a person who is in love. For example, in page 415 Anne shows that she was the one trying to get Peter and not the other way around. She always thought of Peter as a sweet person who just needed friendship and love that would never do anything wrong. Anne too just wanted a friend who would help her and so she drew him and they became friends and soon after that they became intimate…

The story of Brown Girl, Brownstones is a story about a girl named Selina that is growing up in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II era. The story spans from when Selina is about ten years old up to when she is in her early twenties and it is told from a third person point of view. Selina lives with her family that consists of her mother, father, and her older sister. Both of Selina’s Parents originate from Barbados and are immigrants that came to the U.S. pursuing the…

Dickens satirizes the state of England in the way that the country refused to adapt and improve as though that increased its respectability. Dickens uses irony and hyperbole to emphasize this criticism, using Tellson’s Bank as a representation of England. As an illustration, Dickens utilizes irony when he writes, “the partners in the House were...proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness...an active weapon which they flashed at more convenient places of business”. Tellson’s Bank is a…