Lolita's beautiful form contains 'a world of total evil' as Humbert recognises her image is twisted, torn and worshipped in scintillating...

Emily Dickinson’s poetry presents a longing in language that asks and reaches for God through the power of the natural imagination. The...

This extract comes from a broader exploration of reversal and recognition in modern tragic drama across Arthur Miller's Death of a...

This extract explores how Nathanael West's deconstruction of the female image in The Day of the Locust may remove the possibility of love...

David Copperfield presents an inquiry into the self as a meta-fictional construct. Dickens uses a double child and adult point of view...

Emma and Persuasion set up heroines with different models of the self to produce similar moral conclusions. Persuasion is set up as a...

Formally and thematically Waiting for Godot is both unified and opposed to itself as formal devices act as a questioning process into our...

Yeats writes 'A Prayer for my Daughter' in 1919 and publishes in 1921 as part of his poetry collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer....

'Leda and the Swan', composed by Yeats in 1923 and published in 1924, is one of Yeats's masterpieces. In this sonnet Yeats fuses the...

Written in 1819 and published in 1820 'To Autumn' is Keats's sixth ode and marks the fulfilment of his Ode cycle. Keats's Odes. Here, I...

First, here is the extract of the scene: LENNY: […] So after a few minutes I said to her, now look here, why don't you stuff this iron...

Blake's 'The Fly' is one of his Songs of Innocence and Experience, first published in 1789. Here is the poem: ​ The Fly ​ Little Fly Thy...

Pinter's The Homecoming, written in 1965, dramatises the destruction of the traditional family model and values. ​ The plot seems simple...

Nathanael West writes The Day of the Locust in 1939 ​as a diagnosis of the psycho-cultural impact of Hollywood. West dramatises the...