Category: Scientific method

Dickens wrote “Great Expectations” to display just how unfair the criminal justice system and the class system of his day were. He successfully achieves this by telling the story of two characters caught up in these harsh systems; Pip and Magwitch. Pip is the main character and the book follows him from a small child.…

Examine how Shakespeare explores the role of women in Hamlet. What might the response of a modern audience be to this aspect of the play? It is interesting to see in Hamlet how women and their characters are not clearly defined. There is uncertainty about the women and their past lives. Instead they are defined…

Albert Einstein, hailed as a genius and one of the brightest minds in history, left an indelible mark on the world of science. Born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, Einstein’s journey into scientific exploration was unconventional from the start. A late talker, he didn’t utter his first words until the age of three,…

Explore and compare the ways in which the poets present the relationships between men and women in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell, ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti and ‘The Beggar Women’ by William King. Consider the social and cultural contexts in which the poems are set. For most pre-twentieth century writers, love and…

In both ‘Bye-Child‘ and ‘Limbo‘, Heaney concentrates mostly on pain and suffering of individuals who have been born into a world where they are not allowed to be seen or acknowledged. In both cases, these individuals are innocent children, who, unfortunately due to the rigid and uncompromising Catholic community, are forced into a life of…

In this coursework I am going to discuss Mary Shelly’s presentation of Frankenstein’s monster, and how she creates an image of the monster. In the novel Mary Shelly describes the monster as “having a yellow dull eye, and as having thin black lips, ‘inhuman eyes and a sallow skin in which one can see the…

Robert Browning and Andrew Marvell both use the idea of obsession as the basis for their poems but although there are similarities in the personae’s obsessions, each seems obsessed in a different way. I understand the word ‘obsession’ to mean when a person’s thoughts are completely dominated by something or someone. This is definitely what…

In the early 1600’s the view of a black man was radically different to peoples views now. So the play and its plot of a black man marrying a white girl from a high-class family would have been very shocking and implausible. A large number of people at the time would have had similar views…

In ‘Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’, we are given a vision of the world not by an overall view of society, but by the ‘little’ individuals within it. We interact directly with Kathy, Pelagia, Corelli and Mandras and through them, we see not only their vision of society, but also the effect…

Act 1 Scene 5 is a particularly dramatic one. This is because it is the scene where the whole of Romeo and Juliet starts. It is the scene where Romeo and Juliet first see each other. Most of the parts in this scene come over a range of different moods. This scene begins with a…