Category: Scientific method

In Excellent Expectations, Joe serves as a father figure to Pip, when he remains in truth his brother-in-law, as Joe married Pip’s sibling, Mrs Joe Gargery. We are presented to Joe as a “moderate, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, silly, dear fellow”. Pip describes him as a kind and gentle male, making the reader immediately like him.…

The poems ‘The Worlds Wife’ reflect Duffy’s own, very feminist, view of the world. Explore this statement using either two or three in detail or ranging more widely across the collection. Carol Ann Duffy was born on December 23rd 1955 in Glasgow and is a very strong feminist, in ‘The Worlds Wife’ Duffy explores what…

Robert Louis Stevenson incorporated the ideology of the duality of human nature into his Victorian thriller novella: ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. This does not emerge fully until the last chapter. The text not only de-familiarizes the duality of human nature as its central theme but forces us to wonder the…

First published in 1886, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was an immediate success and one of author Robert Louis Stevenson’s bestselling novels. It is a classic example of Gothic fiction and even though it may be seen as just a horror story, with accounts of violent murders and a disturbing, scientific…

The idea of duality, in this case, of people displaying duality of character, being “two faced”, of showing contrasting sides to a person, was of much interest to people in the late 19th century, due to the way it reflected upon their society, and was a key concept of Gothic literature written at the time.…

The Gothic Horror novel is a literary genre which began to flourish in Britain during the 18th century. It is a type of novel that deals with events that generally question the boundaries that separate the socially acceptable from the unacceptable, often exploring the themes of good and evil along the way. Prominent features of…

An interesting principle is the ways Shakespeare presents Edgar in the play “King Lear”. Edgar is the genuine child of Gloucester and his illegitimate sibling Edmund, wishes to take his dad’s land, so he says to his daddy that Edgar is preparing to eliminate him, and tells Edgar to get away. The function of Edgar…

John Steinbeck, born in 1902 and the author of “Of Mice and Men,” set his novel in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The story revolves around two hard-working men who rely on each other at a time when many people faced profound loneliness and isolation. Among the various themes explored in the novel, such…

Sir Francis Bacon, a Renaissance polymath renowned for his contributions to philosophy, statesmanship, science, law, oration, and literature, authored the thought-provoking short story “Of Revenge” in 1597. My initial encounter with this literary piece within the pages of “Reading Literature and Writing Argument” sparked a keen interest, plunging me into the intricate exploration of the…

Charles Cooley was a humanist who was conceived in 1864. He went to the University of Michigan, where he got his college certificate in designing. He returned later to think about human science. In 1918, he filled in as the leader of the American Sociological Association. Cooley is most acclaimed for his hypothesis of the…