Fiction Essay Examples

When it comes to most movies or plays, the settings usually aren’t something people look into because no matter where the story takes place, it’s still the same story with the same outcome. Although that happens for most story lines, that isn’t the case for A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. A Street…

In the play Macbeth the main character Macbeth is a tragic hero despite the large number of people who would argue that he is not. Macbeth is a noble and highly renown which is one of the five characteristics of being a tragic hero. One example of him being highly renown is that at the…

In the original text of Sherlock Holmes: A Study In Scarlet, Sir Arthur Doyle opens up a brand new universe where crime is solved in many ways people couldn’t imagine at the time. The crime scene investigators still use these techniques in the modern day. It wouldn’t be possible without the creation of the fictional…

How often does ones nature change? Jane Eyre is a novel that was written in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte and it was significant because it the one of the first diary-style books to be published. The book is about a girl named Jane who lived in a household with her aunt and cousins and was…

In The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, Gregor Samsa is a regular guy, he goes to work, he supports his family, and he doesn’t complain. That is until he wakes up one morning and finds himself turned into a human sized cockroach. His whole life gets flipped around and his family doesn’t want much to do…

In Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story “The lady with the pet dog”, married man Dmitriy Dmitrievich Gurov and married woman Anna Sergeevna meet in Yalta, getaway town by the Black sea. Chekhov greatly portrays true beauty and sadness of life through their romance. Gurov was able to connect with himself and transform from loveless, cynic…

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author continuing on the English tradition of crime fiction. Poe published his first piece in 1827. This text is very imaginary and it is hard to draw the line between horror and crime fiction. Poe was brought up in an orphanage in which he had an awful time, perhaps…

A Raisin in the Sun, is all about an African American family, fighting for a better life. The family lives in a low income neighborhood in south side of Chicago in the 1950s where the family face racial barriers and chasing their dreams. Walter Younger is an anti hero, a flawed character who does not…

Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado” is one of revenge and secret murder. It’s a tale of terror starring two main characters: Montresor and Fortunato. Montresor is the narrator and the murderer. Fortunato is a wine connoisseur and the victim. The story begins with Montresor explaining that his friend named Fortunato done many horrible…

“Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin, 1894, is about a wife who has heart problems, she has just been told about the news of her husband dying in a train accident. This news brings joy to her, instead of the sadness of which normally comes when losing someone. She gets this sense of freedom,…