Category: Writers

arolHow Dickens Criticizes Victoriana In A Christmas CarolEverybody has an obligation to scrutinize, dissect, or otherwise work towards reform in his or her given society. The status quo should always be held up to a highly critical eye, as it is perpetually flawed. Dickens, more so than most people of his time, was well aware …

Writers on this theory are settled on the point that the state of nature preceded the institution of government that there was no well thought-out life in the state of nature. Each lived according to his own wants and comforts. No laws were there to carry out the activities of man. The law known to …

Graphologie, also known as Writing Psychology, it is the study of handwriting. Very old and still in use today, it is supposed to reveal a person’s attributes from their handwriting. But you can ask yourselves, how this is done? What does a graphologist look at when in analyzing your handwriting?There are five important aspects the …

In Jonathan Swifts essay, A Modest Proposal, Swift proposes that the poor should eat their own starving children during a great a famine in Ireland. What would draw Swift into writing to such lengths. When times get hard in Ireland, Swift states that the children would make great meals. The key factor to Swifts essay …

Writers often use social criticism in their books to show corruptness or weak points of a group in society. One way of doing this is allegory which is a story in which figures and actions are symbols of general truths. George Orwell is an example of an author who uses allegory to show a social …

Before authoring “Hills like White Elephants,” Hemingway had been residing in Paris with his wife Hadley and son, Bumby. During their stay in Paris, Hadley and Ernest Hemingway met a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer. Pauline was more of a friend to Hadley than Hemingway was. Pauline did not think much of Hemingway at first, she …

Charles Dickens is considered to be the greatest novelist of 19th century English literature and one of the most important writers of the Victorian Era. Charles Dickens described society and class in his novels his novel Oliver Twist is a sharp social criticism. Like Dickens himself, the characters in his stories often make huge social …

Is it Sweet and Fitting to Die for One’s Country?Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage is truly a unique book because it challenges the common perceptions of the Civil War. The fight for freedom and the American way of life were how writers such as Fredrick Douglass and Walt Whitman portrayed the Civil War. …

Hemmingway has a unique style of writing. It works on multiple levels. A person could read Farewell to Arms and enjoy it as a tragic love story. Hemmingways concise writing style allows a literal interpretation. At the same time a reader could get involved with the various symbols that he has placed in the novel. …