English Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Paper on Poem of Beowulf (609 words, 1 pages)

The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf is an excellent example of how an author can use connotative diction in order to bring his characters to life for the reader. This poem uses rich and descriptive words and phrases to evoke emotions in the reader towards the main characters. Throughout the novel, ... Read More

Peter Ligeiro’s Paper on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (514 words, 1 pages)

Peter Ligeiro William Shakespeare's highly acclaimed drama Romeo and Juliet is the story of two lovers against fate who by their death end the quarrels between their families, the Montague's and the Capulet. After meeting each other at a masquerade, they fall in one. However, the dread between the houses ... Read More

Issues of Reality in the Novel The Rider’s (1398 words, 2 pages)

Reality is something that everybody has to face and deal with. Facing reality can sometimes have a significant effect on themselves as well as those closest to them. This idea is shown throughout the novel, "The Riders", by Tim Winton, the 60 minutes episode, "Return to Bali", and the film ... Read More

Review of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado (552 words, 1 pages)

The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Mass., on Jan. 19, 1809. His parents were touring actors. He was orphaned at age 3, and taken into the home of John Allan, a merchant of Richmond, VA. His wife raised Edgar as her son, but Allan accepted the ... Read More

A Paper on Sacrifice in John Updike’s An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and A & P (1499 words, 2 pages)

Often times in literature for the protagonist to make progress a sacrifice has to be made. This sacrifice can spark progress in the movement of the story or growth in the character themselves. The true development in the story comes not in the sacrifice itself, but in the motives behind ... Read More

A Comparison of The Story The Most Dangerous Game and The Child by Tiger (373 words, 1 pages)

The story The Most Dangerous Game it was a physical conflict between two persons representing good and evil. It was a conflict against the desecration of human life done by General Zaroff. General Zaroff was a vicious and barbaric antagonist who hunts and kills human life for the thrill of ... Read More

Futuristic Dystopia: Review of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1170 words, 2 pages)

"Brave New World", written by Aldous Huxley, and "Blade Runner", directed by Ridley Scott both explore futuristic dystopias. The composers use science fiction, film noir, satire and irony to depict futures which could develop from the issues relevant to their contexts of production. These contexts are integral to the ideas ... Read More

Review of poem Pontiac and My 48 Pontiac (331 words, 1 pages)

The poems Pontiac and My 48 Pontiac contained a numerous amount of fascinating parallels between each other. Each Poem involves a man who uses their Pontiac as a source, were they could reflect upon their issues. Alone with their car they could feel free to criticize. Unable to come to ... Read More

Vottorio’s Perspective on Life in Two Novels by Nino Ricci (2816 words, 3 pages)

Child has been taught from the beginning that the family is sacred, and is the most important thing in the life of every person. Family can give what no one else can give love, protection, and it shapes a persons identity from the birth. Very often parents are judged by ... Read More

Comparison and Contrast of Beowulf and Gilgamesh (1626 words, 5 pages)

Beowulf and Gilgamesh There are many differences and critical comparisons that can be drawn between the epics of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Both are historical poems which shape their respected culture and both have major social, cultural, and political impacts on the development of western civilization literature and writing. Before any ... Read More

The Opposing Impulses of Human Being as Portrayed in The Lord of the Flies (727 words, 1 pages)

In Golding's Lord of the flies, the rules on the island in the very beginning of the book were very simple whoever holds the conch shell is allowed to speak and everyone must listen to that person as he speaks. The children on the island never thought that it was ... Read More

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" are both predominantly science fiction texts, which represent concerns for humanity in the wild. Conversely, these dystopian texts have been composed in largely varying social, cultural and historical contexts, producing differing themes for both the composer and responder. Ultimately, changes ... Read More

Paul Auster's "Portrait of an Invisible Man" and Carolyn Kay Steedman's "Exiles" present the family histories of two very different people, the former - an American poet and the latter - a British cultural historian, but nevertheless these essays have many things in common, both in terms of style and ... Read More

A Comparison of the Stores Best Buy and Circuit City (252 words, 1 pages)

First I will compare these two stores based on products. Best Buy carries more of a wide variety things. Including computers, software, home and car audio, cellular phones amd so on. Best Buy also has many different price levels including your basic model up to a high end model. The ... Read More

A Comparison of Persimmons by Li-Young Lee and I Go Back to May 1973 by Sharon Olds (808 words, 2 pages)

IRONY AND SYMBOLISM The collision of two worlds and cultures coming together creates turmoil and confusion for many. With an autobiographical nature, that is the feeling a reader gets when encountering the poems "Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee and "I Go Back to May 1937" by Sharon Olds. "Persimmons" is a ... Read More

Reasons Why I’d Rather Read Poe than Watch It (612 words, 1 pages)

After review of both Poes short-story, The Fall of the House of Usher, and the video production of its similar screenplay, it wouldnt take a genius to determine the obvious differences. In fact, it certainly doesnt take a genius to make a difference comparison as I have made the following ... Read More

Comparison Between Gilgamesh and Genesis There are many similarities between the epic Gilgamesh and the biblical story of Genesis. Some similarities between the two stories are the creation of man, the similarity between the relationships of Enkidu and Shamhat and Adam and Eve, and the story of the great flood. ... Read More

Anti-Utopian Societies in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 (611 words, 1 pages)

Both Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and Geroge Orwells 1984 present to the reader anti-utopian societies societies which, when taken at face value, seem perfect, but really are deeply flawed. Both authors wrote their books because they felt that the world was on a course to disaster and they wanted ... Read More

Metaphors and Symbolism in William Faulkner’s Short Stories A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning (1103 words, 2 pages)

Symbolism If we compare William Faulkners two short stories, A Rose for Emily and Barn Burning, he structures the plots of these two stories differently. However, both of the stories note the effect of a fathers teaching, and in both the protagonists Miss Emily and Sarty make their own decisions ... Read More

Differences and Similarities between Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1564 words, 3 pages)

Appreciating The Equivalence Ironically, although Coppola wanted to draw the greatness of the film from the greatness of the novel, the section most like Heart of Darkness is the weakest because he makes the rather romantic assumption...(Hagen,301) Francis Ford Coppola, the screenwriter of the film Apocalypse Now, made the film ... Read More

Comparison between Emma, a Novel by Jane Austen and Clueless, a Film Directed by Amy Heckerling (1338 words, 2 pages)

The amalgamation of Emma, written by Jane Austin in the context of England in 1815, with the movie Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling and set in the Beverly Hills context of 1995, results in transformations. These transformations indicate the difference in style between a written text and a movie yet ... Read More

A Comparison between Two Film Adaptations of Great Expectations, a Novel by Charles Dickens (266 words, 1 pages)

In both adaptations, Mrs Gargery is portrayed in a similar way. She is very angry and violent, she hates having to look after Pip she finds him a burden on her life, and her beating of Pip could be regarded as shocking. The David Lean film shows her mainly from ... Read More

Wuthering Heights is an extremely well-written and complexly structured novel. It is the only novel written by the Victorian writer, Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is also, considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, the orphan boy brought to ... Read More

Differences and Similarities between the Novel and the Movie To Kill a Mockingbird (2927 words, 4 pages)

The different media of film and book mean that with the same story of "To Kill A Mockingbird" different devices can be used to show the meaning of the story. However, the film is compressed and some sections are inevitably omitted. This means that the film director, Robert Mulligan, had ... Read More

Comparison between William Bryd and William Bradford, Colonial Writers (874 words, 1 pages)

Writers are characterized by three factors. These factors are style, tone, and purpose. William Byrd and William Bradford were two colonial writers however they took completely opposite approaches toward writing. During these times, journals, diaries, and sermons made up the literature. Byrd and Bradford were no exceptions with their works ... Read More

Comparison between Banquo and Malcolm in Macbeth, a Play by William Shakespeare (870 words, 2 pages)

Like his father, King Duncan, Malcolm values bravery 'this is the sergeant who like a good and handy soldier......fought against my captivity'. Although we do not know much about his proven combat ability, we are almost sure that he could be an outstanding warrior, one day. As a King's son ... Read More

Comparison between The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Book of Exodus, Part of The Old Testament (1281 words, 2 pages)

The Bible is one of the most common allusive references used in both early and modern literature. Stories like the Creation, Adam and Eve, Joseph and his coat, and even the birth of Christ all are used to help the reader make comparisons between the known and the unknown. The ... Read More

Comparison between the Main Characters in the Crucible by Arthur Miller and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1967 words, 3 pages)

John Proctor of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, is a highly respected man in Salem. "In Proctor's presence a fool felt his foolisheness instantly....Proctor respected and even feared in Salem", the narrator adds (Miller 20). He was a powerful man who disliked hipocrites and the presence of sin. Before the play ... Read More

Comparison between the Play and the Movie The Tempest by William Shakespeare (412 words, 1 pages)

In William Shakespeares The Tempest, there are both similarities and differences between the play and the movie we are viewing. I believe that these occur within the characters, the setting, and with the dialogue. Though the similarities are noticeable, I believe the differences have a greater effect on the aspect ... Read More

Comparison between the Novels The Third Policeman by Tim O’Brien and On the Road by Jack Kerouac (819 words, 1 pages)

The texts in question are in a way very alike they are both extracts from fictional novels and they were both written in the mid-twentieth century. Text B is an extract from Flann O'Brien's novel "The Third Policeman", and it deals with an old country road and ponders the role ... Read More

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