Explicatory Essay Examples

The highly debatable topic of whether a movie supersedes its book equivalent is one that has survived years of book club meetings, classroom discussion and as of recent, social media debates (TheBookAddictedGirl). The comparison of a book to its movie is one of the greatest...

Haruki Murakami wrote, “Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn’t control you—you should control them” (Past Quotes). In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby obsessively pursues a great dream that is linked to his past. However, there are some parts of...

Spider-Man, Batman, and Superman; all of these people were looked up upon others as heroes at some point in time. Most people as young kids saw fictional characters as their hero while others considered a relative or friend. The question is, how can you be...

No matter where you live or the type of life you lead, everyone undergoes through basic emotions and events that signify the human experience. John Steinbeck, the author of theaward winning novel, “Of Mice and Men” manages to touch on a majority of the factors...

The very first rule of “Seneca’s 7 Rules of Revenge Tragedy” states that the son seeks revenge for some wrong done against his father. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this rule was reason for all the irrational decisions made by Prince Hamlet throughout the long and...

A contemporary work of design I chose which I believe is bad for society is the “Cinderella High-Heel Church” in Taiwan. The structure was ‘commissioned by local tourism authorities’ (Tablang, Forbes, 2016) and completed its development in 2016. I sourced the image from a Forbes...

The title of this passage, Beauty and the Beast, gives the reader the impression that this passage is going to be more casual than some of the other Longman Reader reading assignments that we have had. This passage, written by Dave Barry, is just that....