Explicatory Essay Examples

The Alchemist is the first part in the fantasy series “The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel” written by the Irish author Michael Scott. Scott started off his writing career by dealing rare and antique books across Ireland and has since written over 100 books....

The study focuses on the expression and translation of feelings of love and hate in the text of the Hamlet tragedy. Hamlet’s reverence and love for his ancestors, his love and hate for his mother, and his beautiful Aphilia, and those feelings that eventually led...

In William Shakespeare’s play the Tragedy of Juliet Caesar, Portia, Brutus’s wife, is the most persuasive character in the play because she gets Brutus to tell her the secret he was hiding by using persuasive techniques such as reasons, evidence, name calling, and loaded words....

According to Aristotle, a tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. Marcus Brutus is our tragic hero in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. He was the tragic hero because of his idealistic...

Can Taming of the Shrew be named a comedy? Can a play in which the main character is tortured by sleep deprivation, starvation, humiliation, mockery of the logic and common sense be called a comedy? Certainly, Catherine is not an angel. She is quite rude...

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller. In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main protagonists, the man, and his son are on a perilous journey through a post-apocalyptic Earth....

One of the most sensitive situations and concerning thoughts that trouble the boys in the book “The Road” embrace the ways in which father-son relationships are torn apart by the bad situations. The father and son have an unhealthy relationship that didn’t have support and...