Journeys Essays

Crowds poured through the checkpoints, people of every origin on their way to their dream holidays or visiting their families for the fist time in ages, who knows, It’s not for me to worry, I had a bigger problem. My family and me had planned a holiday to Florida, USA, …

Journeys end is an awesome and eye-opening book to be set out as a play; it shows the viewer how devastating and demoralising the Great War was. R. C Sherriff, the author of Journeys End, was a brave man who was unfortunate enough to get wounded while serving in the …

In this essay I’m going to compare the two plays The Long and the Short and the Tall. The Long and the Short and the Tall takes place in Malaya during the Second World War. The patrol in The Long and the Short and the Tall had been sent from …

Margaret Atwood. Laconic and mysterious. A Canadian writer who embodies the concepts of a confessional poet. ‘This is a photograph of me’ evokes pathological readers to emphasise on their ideas, and again is accumulative with intertextuality to ‘Journey to the Interior’ The persona is divided into two types of writings, …

You can see from these results that the speed of coaches didn’t really improve until 1760 where it had increased greatly before 1780. It was nearly 5 times the speed before 1720 that it was by 1840 this shows us how much they did improve. The question know is how? …

‘Standing Female Nude’ is a poem depicting a woman posing nude for a painting. It is a dramatic monologue from the model’s point of view. Both the model and the painter work out of necessity. ‘The Journeyman Paul Cezanne On Mount Victoire’ by Lochhead, like ‘Standing Female Nude’, is a …

A journey consists of the movement from one place to another where the individual or group of people undergoes a progression of change and development. The journey whether it is physical, inner or imaginary can have lasting effects on an individual and can be negative or positive in nature. The …

Life is merely a journey. On a journey, an individual experiences a range of obstacles, either expected or unexpected, which shapes their life. Such obstacles initiate the process of change and transformation. Clearly, through a close study of the play ‘Away’ by Michael Gow, the poem ‘Whither will I Wander’ …

There is an Ancient Chinese Proverb that states, “The Journey is the reward”, meaning that no matter how long it takes you to reach your destination, it is not where you end up, but the journey that will have shaped you. As we journey in life, we are challenged by …

I’ve always had the desire to write beautifully, from penmanship to placement and flow of the words. I remember getting birthday cards from my Granny with elegant cursive writing. Attracted to the way each word blended so smooth and soft, I would get a piece of paper and mimic the …