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English Essay Topics

August 27th, 2009 No comments

English essay writing is considered to be the most popular academic activity in school, high school, college and university. Professors and teachers are fond of assigning complicated English essay topics to check up students’ knowledge in English. Sometimes students experience difficulties in choosing the most appropriate topic for writing their English essay.

You can find a lot of free English essay topics in the Internet, some of them are interesting … Read the rest

Macbeth Essay

August 26th, 2009 No comments

Throughout the play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth together demonstrate how ambition can turn a loyal soldier into a bloodthirsty murderer with his scheming and devious wife turning weak and disturbed as ambition slowly destroys her. Macbeth’s ambition to become king of Scotland turn’s him independent and ruthless. “The dead butcher and fiend-like queen”, is an accurate description as this is all they amount to.

At the start of the play … Read the rest

Brave New World Essay

August 25th, 2009 No comments

The theme of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is community, identity, and stability. Each of these three themes represents what a Brave New World society needs to have in order to survive. According to the new world controllers, community is a result of identity and stability, identity is a part of genetic engineering, and stability is what everyone desires to achieve. These themes are represented in the book by the … Read the rest

Beowulf Essay

August 20th, 2009 No comments

Characters in fiction and drama are characterized into different categories according to their influence on the plot and their personality. Every character in a poem is unique in their own way. In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf endures many challenges that make his character stand out from the rest. Beowulf is a major character with a dynamic, yet flat personality.

Beowulf is considered the major character because he has the … Read the rest

Othello Essay

August 20th, 2009 No comments

Tragic dramas have been written and performed for many centuries and throughout this time, they have undergone an evolutionary process, with each successive era of tragic drama deriving directly or indirectly from its predecessors. Scholars believe that the play Othello by William Shakespeare was first published in 1603; approximately at the same time as Shakespeare’s other great tragedies Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear. After careful analysis of each of these … Read the rest

How to Write a Good English Dissertation

August 18th, 2009 No comments

English dissertations can take on many forms; however, the key to clear development of a good English dissertation is careful planning and clear topic coverage. A good English dissertation may seem out of reach due to the sheer magnitude of the project; however, a few simple steps can keep you organized and focused during the process of developing your English dissertation.

Begin by formatting the initial document you wish to … Read the rest

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Essay

August 17th, 2009 No comments

In the novel the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, a thirteen-year-old boy named Huck Finn struggles with the reality of slavery and living in the south. Huck lacks education and civilization, but has good instincts and judgment. Although his guardian, Ms. Watson, tries to “civilize” him, he refuses her offer deciding that civilization with all its hypocrisy is not the proper path for him. Huck’s best … Read the rest

Bartleby, The Scriverner

August 12th, 2009 No comments

In Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” the narrator, an anonymous lawyer, describes himself as one who lives a simple and mundane life. According to the narrator, his philosophy on life is that “the easiest way in life is the best way”. He is a man who takes few risks in life and tries to conform to the norm of society. However, after hiring a new scrivener, Bartleby, the narrator finds … Read the rest

Essay on Politics and the English Language

August 10th, 2009 No comments

The language of politics is one that is universal to all languages. In 1948, George Orwell published an essay entitled Politics and the English Language, which discussed just that. In paragraph 21 of this essay, he claims, “political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.” This is absolutely right, it was in Orwell’s time, and it still … Read the rest

English Regents Answer

August 7th, 2009 No comments

Frank Conroy and William Maxwell show exceptional examples of what childhood friendships may have consisted of many years ago. Within Passage I, Frank Conroy displays how a relationship can be formed between two people who have just meet and yet still have the deep relationship that is usually only acquired by people who have had a relationship for many years. William Maxwell explains how a simple playmate can be even … Read the rest