Rachelsuninotes

For the purpose of this essay I will discuss and evaluate what are and how a text accomplishes its timeless qualities, with special reference to Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South.

The Bildungsroman is an inherently misogynistic form. Discuss with reference to Jude the Obscure, Sons and Lovers and The Mill on the Floss.

For the purpose of this essay I will use the aforementioned psychoanalytic concept and others that appear in Freud's essay, to illuminate the way Brontë depicts Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.

An in-depth discussion of Shakespeare’s Henry V

The degrees of violence presented in both works can be categorised into three sections, consisting of: oral aggression, implied violence and physical violence, with death as a direct result of external force.

For the purpose of this essay I will compare and contrast the metre, structure, form, rhythm and language in Vaughan’s ‘They Are All Gone into the World of Light’, and Wilbur’s ‘Advice to a Prophet’, with discussion on how these elements enhance the overall meaning.

For the purpose of this essay I will analyse Dryden’s poem as an example of satirical verse, with a detailed approach as to how his techniques enhance the textual meaning.

As Ellis notes, ‘Jane Eyre retains all the key thematic elements of the Bildungsroman’, and certain passages within her narrative offer an optimistic outlook and conclusion to her tribulations. Thus, I will examine the view that ‘the Bildungsroman is a fundamentally optimistic genre’, whilst considering its historical development and how the form applies to Charlotte Brontë’s novel.

For the purpose of this essay I will be analysing O’Neill’s poem, consisting of a detailed approach to the genre, diction and general versification with reference as to how these techniques analytically enhance the textual meaning.

Butler writes of ‘the false universal of man’ as a means to express the universal notion of what the human is, and what it is perceived to be due to the configuration of these cultural frames and historical images. Butler notes that gender is defined as being merely a set of performative acts, formed culturally and socially by repeating stylised body gestures.