An eccentric person

by Cristina Nuta - Chris moved into the house next door to me two years ago. Even before he came around to introduce himself the following day, I could tell that he was truly eccentric. Perhaps the most striking thing about Chris is his appearance. His slender body is usually adorned in some kind of tight-fitting multi-colored cat suit which makes him look like a comic book super hero. He ge ...

Date added: 21 May '07

The Character of Jane Eyre

by Herminne Tonita - Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is one of the best English works of art of the 19th century. The plot of Jane Eyre follows the form of a bildungsroman, which is a novel that tells the story of a child's maturation and focuses on the emotions and experiences that accompany and incite their growth to adulthood. From these experiences Jane becomes the mature woman who narra ...

Date added: 31 May '07

A Tragic Character : Anna Nicole Smith

by Herminne Tonita - She wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe and she passed away just like her: from too much "living". The life of Danielynn Hope Marshall Stern, the new born of Anna Nicole Smith, began with a catastrophe. Only after three days from her birth, her elder brother Daniel died from a mixture of drugs and medicines. He was only twenty. Five months later, Danielynn also lost her mot ...

Date added: 17 April '07

Dover Beach - A poem by Matthew Arnold

by Herminne Tonita - As a poet, Matthew Arnold had no wish to write in conformity with the fashion of his time. Appealing to the authority of the ancients, he asserted that 19th century poets needed to learn three important things: "the all importance of the choice of a subject, the necessity of accurate construction; the subordinate character of expression". Dover Beach is entirely free fro ...

Date added: 01 June '07