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E M Forster and the British Raj in a Passage to India
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,697 words, approx. 6 pages)
Discusses the EM Forster novel, A Passage to India. Examines Forster's description of British rule in India. Details how he arrived at his conclusions.
E.M. Forster: within the Brilliant Master Piece
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,000 words, approx. 3 pages)
Essay discusses the brilliance of Forster as he developes a common and central theme.
East Versus West in Antony and Cleopatra
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,307 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay compares the two main settings, Rome and Egypt, in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra. Describes how the setting of this tragedy is split between two places that are diametrically opposed geographically and symbolically. Considers how Shakespeare used the opposing places as conflict for Antony.
Educating Rita - Discuss How Rita Changes Though the Play
Essay Grade: 81%   (1,892 words, approx. 6 pages)
Educating Rita, written in 1985 by Willy Russell, details the changes to Rita before and after summer school in England. The extent of Rita's change from a blonde uneducated "bimbo" to a well-spoken, educated person is the main theme.
Edward de Vere Vs. William Shakespeare
Essay Grade: 92%   (659 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay is about whom truly wrote the works acredited to Shakespeare.
Effects of Starvation on Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,306 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the novel Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Discusses the effects of starvation on the character of Raskolnikov. Examines factors motivating Raskolnikov's actions and thoughts.
Effects of the Holocaust in Maus
Essay Grade: 94%   (1,562 words, approx. 5 pages)
In Art Spiegelman's book, Maus, how the Holocaust leaves lasting effects on families of Holocaust survivors.
Elie Weisel's Relationship with His Father in "Night"
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,149 words, approx. 4 pages)
The horror of the Holocaust and Elie Weisel's relationship with his father in his autobiographical book "Night." The author describes his and his family's life at the Buchenwald concentration camp and his undying love for his father.
Eliza Doolittle - Pygmalion
Essay Grade: 75%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
A character analysis of Eliza Doolittle in the play "Pygmalion."
Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Wollstonecraft: Challenging Women's Traditional Roles Throughout
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,276 words, approx. 4 pages)
An analysis and comparison between the works of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Elizabeth Benett: a Challenge to Convention
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,378 words, approx. 5 pages)
In Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen, Elizabeth Benett challeneges society and her social class. She challenges the gender roles of the nineteenth century by disregarding acts of propriety. Throughout the novel, she is held in contempt as being too disagreeable and athletic for a woman by the culture around her.
Elizabeth's Rebellion in "Pride and Prejudice"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,930 words, approx. 6 pages)
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is sometimes criticized for supported the repressive Victorian patriarchy of her time. But the character of Elizabeth does not accept everything: she goes through stages of protest acceptance, rebellion and conformity.
Elizabethan Drama
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,323 words, approx. 4 pages)
Explores the history of the European Renaissance and its manifestations and influence upon the Elizabethan drama.
Emilia's Complexity in "Othello"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,055 words, approx. 4 pages)
The role and symbolism of Emilia in William Shakespeare's classic work, "Othello>"
Emilia's Speech in "Othello" and Its Teachings
Essay Grade: 83%   (731 words, approx. 2 pages)
A summary of what Emilia teaches the readers through her speech in Act IV of William Shakespeare's play "Othello." The speech has been called a Renaissance plea to women's liberation, as Emilia tells of what she has experienced with her husband Iago and what is bound to happen to Desdemona. While Emilia at first seemed naïve in many ways, her speech opened up a world that Desdemona didn't know existed.
Emma's Learning Process
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,279 words, approx. 4 pages)
Personal experiences and relelations trigger the growth of "Emma" in the novel by Jane Austen. She grows from being a self-professed bachelorette who is vain and snobbish into a woman open to love and marriage and who transforms herself into a likeable character.
Emma's Maturation in Austen's "Emma"
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,276 words, approx. 4 pages)
In Jane Austen's "Emma," Emma goes through a remarkable transformation from a vain and snobby girl to a young woman capable of true love.
Emma: A Character Study
Essay Grade: 88%   (651 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides a character analysis of Emma Woodhouse, the title character of the Jane Austen novel. Describes her as a growing individual because she thankfully learns from her mistakes.
Emma: An Analysis of Mrs. Elton
Essay Grade: 86%   (922 words, approx. 3 pages)
Examines the Jane Austen's novel "Emma." Provides a character sketch of Augusta Hawkins Elton. Argues that that she is unquestionably the most distinct persona in the novel.
Emma: Frank Churchill as a Villain
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,004 words, approx. 3 pages)
Explores Jane Austen's novel, Emma. Analyzes the character of Frank Churchill and evaluates his role as villain in the story.
Emma: Summary of the Events at Box Hill
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,200 words, approx. 4 pages)
Analyzes the novel Emma, by Jane Austen. Provides a Summary of the Events at Box Hill, when Emma notices that Frank doesn't seem himself and he soon expresses his wish to leave the country and move to Switzerland.
Emma: the Turning Point at Box Hill
Essay Grade: 86%   (1,788 words, approx. 6 pages)
Emma, by Jane Austen.

Analysis of the events at Box Hill played in the development of the novel.

Emma: The Typical Jane Austen Novel
Essay Grade: 96%   (580 words, approx. 2 pages)
Plot summary of Jane Austen's "Emma" and how the novel typifies Austen's work of writing about only what she has experienced in her life in England's Romantic Age.
Emond Dantes: Hubris Was He
Essay Grade: 92%   (590 words, approx. 2 pages)
This essay deals with the hubris Edmond Dantes shows throughout "The Count Of Monte Cristo."
Enduring Love
Essay Grade: 90%   (1,223 words, approx. 4 pages)
Essay provides a description of the novel "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan.
Enduring Love: Changes in the Relationship of Joe and Clarissa
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,795 words, approx. 6 pages)
Examines the changes which occur in the relationship between Joe and Clarissa throughout the course of Ian McEwan's "Enduring Love."
Engaging Hardships
Essay Grade: 85%   (348 words, approx. 1 pages)
Essay discusses William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Ralph, one of the main characters, is made leader of an island until chaos takes position in his island and his leadership is destroyed. Essay discusses how it was destroyed and how he overcame the hardships after saving his own life.
English Society in the 14th Century
Essay Grade: 81%   (1,146 words, approx. 4 pages)
The Canterbury Tales is set in fourteenth-century London, one of the medieval period's great centers of commerce and culture. In England at this time, society was still very strictly ordered, with the King and nobles having all power in things political and the Catholic Church having all authority in spiritual matters.
Environment as a Powerful Influence in "The Farmer's Bride"
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,098 words, approx. 4 pages)
Charlotte Mew presents the environment as a powerful influence over our character in the novel, "The Farmer's Bride."
Epilogue for Crime & Punishment in Relation to the Rest of the Text
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,087 words, approx. 4 pages)
This essay explores wether or not the epilogue of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is consistant with the rest of the novel. Examines religious symbols used as foreshadowing as well as his references to suffering for atonement.
Equivocation in "Macbeth"
Essay Grade: 78%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is full of equivocation and double meanings. This makes the play more appealing and interesting because the audience sees the betrayals and treachery and understands what is going on with the characters as they discuss it. Macbeth, the witches, and other characters all use equivocation in their actions and words to emphasize the theme of duplicity in this tale of lies and murder.
Escaping Social Rules in The Importance of Being Earnest
Essay Grade: 86%   (2,210 words, approx. 7 pages)
Discusses the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest. Discusses how Wilde's characters lead double lives and examines their motivation for doing so. Explores the theory that the main reason is connected to the restrictive social etiquette of late Victorian/early Edwardian England.
Essay Questions about "The Hobbit"
Essay Grade: 83%   (808 words, approx. 3 pages)
Answers to essay questions about "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Estella's Change at the End of "Great Expectations"
Essay Grade: 81%   (148 words, approx. 1 pages)
In Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," Estella has undergone many changes by the end of the novel. Her physical beauty has faded, but she has matured emotionally.
Estella's True Colors
Essay Grade: 85%   (510 words, approx. 2 pages)
Essay analyzes Estella's character in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations."
Ethan Frome: The Effect of Setting on Ethan
Essay Grade: 86%   (477 words, approx. 2 pages)
Analyzes the text Ethan Frome, by Edith Wardon. Examines the effect of the novel's setting on the character of Ethan. Connects the setting to Ethan's isolation from the world.
Europa Mythology
Essay Grade: 88%   (645 words, approx. 2 pages)
Describes the importance of the images based on European mythology. Explores how mythology has applied a persistent influence on the arts throughout Europe from the earliest times and thus, numerous images were created because of such inspiration.
Eustacia in Return of the Native -- Me, Myself, and I
Essay Grade: 81%   (209 words, approx. 1 pages)
An overview of Eustacia's actions in Thomas Hardy's novel Return of the Native. These actions illustrate the dramatic, self-centered nature of Eustacia's personality and her ignorance of other people's feelings.
Evaluate the Way Becky and Amelia Fit Into the Dichotomy of `Virtuous and Vixenish' Thus Far
Essay Grade: 75%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
In Vanity Fair, many of the qualities valued are focused around money, class, breeding and good female behaviour. All these qualities are possessed by Amelia and thus she is portrayed as the virtuous character in Vanity Fair.
Eveline
Essay Grade: 86%   (785 words, approx. 3 pages)
Explores the short story "Eveline," by James Joyce. Examines the title character's fear of change. Considers why she ultimately chooses not to change.
Eveline's Choice
Essay Grade: 88%   (739 words, approx. 3 pages)
A critical analysis determining why the title character in James Joyce's short story "Eveline" chooses to stay with her controlling father rather than escape with her beloved Frank. Joyce reveals through Eveline's relationships with her parents the degree to which fear plays a role in her decision.
Events That Influenced William Shakespeare
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,617 words, approx. 5 pages)
William Shakespeare is the world's most famous playwright. Topics for his masterpieces reflected the world he lived in. Influences on his work can be traced to social trends, family matters, and politics and war during Shakespeare's life.
Everyman: Good Deeds over Friends
Essay Grade: 88%   (648 words, approx. 2 pages)
"Everyman" is a 16th century English morality play in which the individual, Everyman, relies upon his friends to help him as he approaches God in the afterlife. He learns, in the end, that only his intelligence and good deeds to humankind can achieve salvation for him.
Everything Has a Purpose, Even Wine
Essay Grade: 83%   (930 words, approx. 3 pages)
The motif of blood and wine are one of the few motifs in A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, that help create a big feeling of anticipation and suspense in the novel. The purpose of this motif is to create the lingering ideas of foreshadow, mystery, and horror.
Evil Created by Humans or Systems?
Essay Grade: 86%   (3,263 words, approx. 11 pages)
Golding's novel "The Lord of the Flies" reflects upon human society and shows how, if put the ideal situation, the evil held inside man can emerge from the depths in which it is contained and come to light in the most alarming and upsetting ways. The two major sets of systems in the novel are the ones in place during Ralph democratic rule, and the ones in place during Jacks dictatorial rule. In both cases the systems within either end in failure, or are distorted into a blatant form of evil.
Evil in "Macbeth"
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,457 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay describes how Macbeth was evil from the beginning of the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
Evil's Influence on Macbeth
Essay Grade: 86%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
In William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Macbeth is not inherently evil; manipulation and influence by Lady Macbeth and the Weird Sisters overwhelmed him and forced him into committing evil acts.
Examination of Madam Defarge's Oath of Vengence in a Tale of Two Cities
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,162 words, approx. 4 pages)
Discusses the Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Examines how Madam Dafarge's oath of personal vengence affected the lives of the main characters.
Examine Friel's presentation of the Irish in the play as a whole
Essay Grade: 89%   (835 words, approx. 3 pages)
brain friels play translations and analysis of the irish in it
Examine Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy and Show How It Is Used to Develop Character.
Essay Grade: 75%   (185 words, approx. 1 pages)
Through Lady Macbeth's soliloquy, it can b e concluded that she is a vile person. Her words "It is too full o th'milk of human kindness", show how implicitly evil she is. These words are used because she is trying to challenge he husbands manhood, and therefore, this would make him want to commit the murder to prove to her that he is a man.
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