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Dr. Faustus, decidedly a tragic play, contains a number of comic scenes. It is a matter of sheer conjecture whether Marlowe wrote these scenes himself or allowed someone else to write them in deference to the prevailing taste of the times, because, Marlowe in the Prologue to Tambularine had contemptuously discarded buffoonery or clownage as…

J. B Priestly first describes Sheila as a ‘pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited’. She is of upper middle class, or ‘new money’. Women in Edwardian times did very different things depending on what class they were in. Working class women worked in places such as shops, factories,…

John Boynon Priestly was born in Bradford, Yorkshire on 13th September 1894 and died 80 years later on August 14, 1984. He published over 120 books, married three times and was a socialist who thought that people should share their wealth or a t the least help the needy. His message that he tries to…

I am going to do a piece of coursework on a comparison of two speeches, one is on Inspector Goole and the other is on Mr Birling. This will include a close analysis of dramatic devices and language feature, but first I will tell you a little bit about the play. The play was set in…

In today’s society we are surrounded by posters; they are everywhere, anywhere you look. Everyday people are bombarded by posters, each one having a different purpose; some are to inform e.g. coffee mornings or book fairs, others to explain like leaflets at the doctors explaining about the flu jab, command like ‘stop smoking’ adverts and…

It is crucial to realize however, that imagination is not restricted solely to the conclusions of both The Tempest and Dreams. Imagination is required throughout each piece, involving myself from the beginning, to end. Although imagination is necessary in both, each requires it for different purposes. In order to fully grasp The Tempest, it was…

William Shakespeare and Timothy Findley lived in much different time periods from each other and were faced with different expectations of themselves, as writers. However, although William Shakespeare in The Tempest and Timothy Findley in Dreams held radically different ideals of writing, both are concerned to explore the theme of dream versus reality. While both…

A Comparison between the First Chapters of Oliver Twist and Therese Raquin Oliver Twist and Therese Raquin are written by Charles Dickens and Emile Zola respectively. Oliver Twist is a critism towards the Victorian Times where classification among the high, middle and low classes was very strict. In the novel, the orphan, Oliver uses humour to…

The Flea and Shall I Compare Thee… are very similar but very different poems. They are both about love and seduction but the approach to the common theme is different in both poems. Love and Seduction is the core theme in The Flea, the author Donne is trying to copulate with his mistress and is having…

Page eleven is very near the beginning of the story, and so the page reveals the appearance of the green knight, the previous pages describe how the knights are in a banquet at Christmas and the page begins as they are about to start dinner. It starts of with ‘Now, on the subject of supper…