Ian Chesterton Essays

  • The Original Pilot for Classical Doctor Who Analysis

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    shillings there are in a pound." She is described as "a fifteen year old girl who is absolutely brilliant at some things, and excruciatingly bad at others (Doctor Who 1963)." Continuing their conversation, the two teachers, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, travel to Susan’s given address to find themselves at the junkyard shown in the opening scene and there wait for he... ... middle of paper ... ...s between the pilot of Classic Who and the revival; however much has changed in technological

  • A Comparison between 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens and 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells

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    A Comparison between 'The Signalman' by Charles Dickens and 'The Red Room' by H.G. Wells How do Dickens and Wells create a sinister and supernatural atmosphere in the opening of The Signalman and the Red Room? Dickens and Wells both create a sinister and supernatural atmosphere in the opening of The Signalman and The Red Room by using the Gothic features, such as the presence of grotesque characters, haunted rooms, superstition and previous deaths. These features are all key ideas in the

  • An Analysis of Chesterton and Nietzsche

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    An Analysis of Chesterton and Nietzsche Imagine the lame giant of the Victorian age stumbling about in the darkness, wrestling with an unseen opponent. It pries the crushing grip of a hand from its throat only to discover the hand is its own. Imagine two explorers on opposites sides of a great ocean. Anchors are weighed, and each explorer sets out to see just beyond the horizon, to sail beyond the sunset. They collide amidships in the midnight fog and breeze, but they continue their journeys

  • A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters, and Favorite Father Brown Stories, by G.K. Chesterton

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    Think nothing exciting ever happens in the life of a clergyman? These two thrilling books, A Morbid Taste for Bones, by Ellis Peters, and Favorite Father Brown Stories, by G.K. Chesterton, may make you reassess that presupposition. Favorite Father Brown Stories concerns an English priest named Brown who lives in 19th century England, and takes on various odd cases that come his way in everyday life. Alternately, A Morbid Taste for Bones concerns an older monk named Brother Cadfael who lives in the

  • Two Mystery Solving Monks

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    May 2014. . 2. Peters, Ellis. "A Morbid Taste for Bones." Worldtracker.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 May 2014. . 3. "The Complete Father Brown." The Complete "Father Brown", by G. K. Chesterton : The Salad of Colonel Cray. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. . 4. "The Complete Father Brown." The Complete "Father Brown", by G. K. Chesterton : The Blue Cross. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 May 2014. .

  • Brother Cadfael vs Father Brown

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    Would there be a difference in two fictional detectives in England, one living in the 12th century and the other in the 20th? Of course, not only because of different literary styles employed by authors but also in character development. G.K. Chesterton, famed English theologian, writes about the adventures of a Catholic Father with the name Brown, the latter of these two detectives. Brother Cadfael, a Welsh, living in medieval England came out of the imagination of an author with the pseudonym

  • Insanity

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    just what a small amount of insanity can do to a person. The reader begins to question themselves in the matter of their own mental state. “ There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell,” as Gilbert Keith Chesterton would say.

  • Short Biography: A Brief Biography Of Emily Bronte

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    Emily Bronte Everything started on July 30th, 1818, the date in which Emily Bronte was born. Emily was born and raised in Yorkshire, England. Born into a larger family with five siblings, they all still lived a fairly quiet life in Yorkshire. Emily Bronte’s education started at the age of six where she was sent to Clergy Daughters’ School. She was eventually sent of out this school when a case of tuberculosis came out and had killed two of her siblings. Living in Haworth, England, Bronte still

  • The Importance of the Marching Season to the Peace Process

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    The Importance of the Marching Season to the Peace Process Every July, Orange Order marches take place to commemorate the Battle of The Boyne of 1690. Since the beginning of ‘The Troubles’ in 1969, the sectarian divide, essentially in the geographical areas of Northern Ireland, has become synonymous with the hopes and fears of the two ideologies yet who still remain poles apart. Parades and marches by the respective sides, reinforce this confrontation. The marches have often been a flashpoint

  • Time is a major theme in Ian McEwan's The Child In Time.

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    Time is a major theme in Ian McEwan's The Child In Time. "Time is always susceptible to human interpretation. And though time is partly a human fabrication, it is also that from which no parent or child is immune." Time is a major theme in Ian McEwan's 'The Child In Time'. He treats the subject irreverently, 'debunking chronology by the nonlinearity of his narrative.' - Michael Byrne. McEwan uses the setting of Stephen's dull committee as the backdrop for his daydreaming. Even Stephen's

  • macbeth

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    MACBETH, it is probable, was the last-written of the four great tragedies, and immediately preceded Antony and Cleopatra.(note 1, p 331]. In that play Shakespeare's final style appears for the first time completely formed, and the transition to this style is much more decidedly visible in Macbeth than in King Lear .Yet in certain respects Macbeth recalls Hamlet rather than Othello or King Lear. In the heroes of both plays the passage from thought to a critical resolution and action is difficult,

  • King Lear: A Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning?

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    King Lear—A Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning? A King is supposed to have all that he needs without having to worry about anything in his late years. Yet King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 2, cried out in pitifully: “I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.'; Although Lear has made a huge mistake in the first scene of the play in dividing up his kingdom and banishing his two dearest people, the sins his two other ungrateful daughters have done him is far greater than the extent of Lear’s

  • The Director's Notes on Richard III

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    flattered. Also she falls into Richards arms more easily because she is feeling very insecure seeing as she has no one left to care and protect her because of Richard killing both her husband Edward, and her father-in-law to King Henry Vl. In the Ian Mckellen version of the play I think the scene is made much more climatic by the fact that the body of Edward (Anne’s husband) was there the whole scene, reminding her of what Richard had done. During the whole of this scene I think that Richard

  • Hooking the Reader in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love

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    "The beginning is simple to mark". This is the opening sentence of Ian McEwan's novel "Enduring Love", and in this first sentence, the reader is unwittingly drawn into the novel. An introduction like this poses the question, the beginning of what? Gaining the readers curiosity and forcing them to read on. The very word "beginning" allows us an insight into the importance of this event, for the narrator must have analysed it many a time in order to find the moment in which it all began, and so

  • How Women Are Portrayed Within Macbeth

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    William Shakespeare has many interesting female characters throughout all of his different types of works. Some of his women are leading ladies while others are just supporting characters that help move the story along. No matter the depth of the characters’ role, each lady gives some type of unthinkable personality trait that would be unique to women during Shakespeare’s time. Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear all have female characters that portray women who wouldn’t be seen during the time of William

  • Man and God in Frankenstein and Jurassic Park

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    Man and God in Frankenstein and Jurassic Park Not since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, has an author captured such a theme in their work in a way that is magical and captivates the reader.  Michael Crichton's science fiction novel Jurassic Park  portrays what happens when man plays God: his imperfections cause things to go terribly wrong.  The story's, plot, setting, point of view and characterization all add to an atmosphere of fear and raise readers' consciousness about the consequences

  • The Opposition to Human Cloning: How Morality and Ethics Factor in

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    into a human or animal egg cell, thereby beginning the life of a new human individual who has only one parent and who is genetically identical to that parent. The once impossible idea of cloning became a reality in 1997 when Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced that a cloned sheep named Dolly was born. Dolly was created by removing the nucleus from a sheep egg cell and replacing it in the nucleus of a cell taken from the udder of another

  • King Lear

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    King Lear, Abbey exhibited King Lear, another of his large, dramatic pictures, at the Royal Academy in 1898; the painting was accompanied in the catalog by these lines from Act I, scene i: Ye jewels of our father, with washed eyes Cordelia leaves you. I know what you are; And, like a sister, am most loth to call Your faults as they are named. Love well our father. To your professed bosoms I commit him. But yet, alas! stood I within his grace, I would prefer him to a better place. So

  • William Shakespeare's Richard III

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    falsely represented by Shakespeare’s play and fight avidly to clear his name of any and all crimes. Because of the uncertainty surrounding his true character, Richard III is an intriguing personality to put into modern culture, which is exactly what Ian McKellen does in his rendition of the infamous ruler. However, McKellen’s portrayal of Richard III preserves the basic personality of Shakespeare’s character and continues the idea of Richard III as tyrant and murderer; there is no doubt that McKellen

  • How Soaps Attract Their Target Audience

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    How Soaps Attract Their Target Audience I n this essay, I am going to compare Eastenders and Neighbours. I will identify the key ingredients shared by different soaps and examine ways in which such key ingredients differ from one soap to another. The key ingredients to soaps are that they last for years. The soaps are usually serial and are set in a specific location e.g. Albert square in Eastenders. In soaps, they all have characters, which appeal to a specific audience. Here are