Cormac McCarthy uses many different techniques to tell the story in his novel ‘The Road’. He uses a very limited palette in an attempt to make the reader interrogate the plot themselves, as I found myself doing so whilst reading… Continue Reading →
1. The Road can be interpreted as the setting for the result of a nuclear war and/or disaster. This could be the case on a close examination of the text. At first I believed this to be wrong, and that… Continue Reading →
Three writers that I have been privileged to have studied over the last seven months are Scott Fitzgerald, Christina Rossetti and Cormac McCarthy. All of which have used a completely different style of narrative to one another, and this is… Continue Reading →
What is a dystopia exactly? Well as a definition, ‘an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one’ – or so the Oxford dictionary believes it to be. In terms… Continue Reading →
Christina Rossetti has a very unique style of writing. Not only does she add a lot of descriptive elements to her writing, but with clever use of religious or biblical references, she separates herself from many different poets. You must… Continue Reading →
Rossetti uses many forms of religious imagery spread throughout the poem, with the reader being able to interpret the contrasts between heaven and hell, sin and virtue. ‘Blood’s a bar I cannot pass’ – with bar representing a barrier, or… Continue Reading →
Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 and passed away in 1894 at the age of 64. As demonstrated in the majority of her poems, she took a rather religious stance whilst writing them. She used this as ‘inspiration’ to write,… Continue Reading →
On my first reading of Goblin Market, it was easy to interpret it as a poem written for children. On closer inspection, it becomes harder to maintain this view. The text within this poem led me to believe this at… Continue Reading →
Welcome to your student blog, where you will be able to use the power of technology to display the power of your mind. I cannot wait to read your postings and to communicate with you about your work. All the… Continue Reading →