Mary Shelley’s life
1. Describe Percy’s view of love and marriage when he started his relation with Mary. When and why did the relation change? Percy has a...
Satire is a literary device
Satire is a literary device which is basically is the used with the purpose of criticizing the behavior of a specific target. This...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship bound for the North Pole, recounts to his sister back in England the...
A Modest Proposal
In A Modest Proposal, Swift vents his mounting aggravation at the ineptitude of Ireland's politicians, the hypocrisy of the wealthy, the...
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was an Irish author and satirist. Best known for writing Gulliver's Travels. Swift was a sickly child. It was later...
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
This poem is frequently anthologised, and its first line is often quoted as a pithy way of saying that we should make the most of the...
On My First Son by Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an English dramatist and poet, who was a contemporary of Shakespeare. He was born and lived in London,...
Sweetest love, I do not go By John Donne
The poet tells his beloved that he is not leaving because he is tired of the relationship—instead, he must go as a duty. After all, the...
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The play begins with the brief appearance of a trio of witches and then moves to a military camp, where the Scottish King Duncan hears...
The Knight’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales
The Knight’s Tale is a romance that encapsulates the themes, motifs, and ideals of courtly love: love is like an illness that can change...
