Analysis Essay Samples

Frankenstein, a famous Gothic novel written by Mary Shelley that was published in 1818, is notorious for the debates it has stirred among academics and…

Forrest Gump, a landmark film by Robert Zemeckis released in 1994, is mentioned by countless people as a moral tale of great insight. The film…

It is not a secret that the world today is obsessed with appearances. Visual attractiveness is one of the key factors when people make choices…

Throughout recent decades, the food industry has remained at the center of public debates. “We are what we eat,” as the saying goes, and naturally,…

Although medicine has reached the level when many diseases can be cured or at least effectively stopped, there are cases when nothing can help a…

Youth—especially the teenage years—is a period of life when an individual is especially vulnerable in terms of his or her personality being affected by the…

By Harry Hoare ‘And what did you learn at school today, Jimmy?’ ‘How to be a virtuous person.’ It may sound strange, but a growing…

By Patrick West When you read tirades about today’s cult of celebrity, you can invariably expect two axioms to present themselves. One is that this…

By Dolan Cummings American philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris, author of The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, is on a mission to…

By Anwar Oduro-Kwarteng Introduction In the midst of the government’s ‘reform’ agenda in which the NHS, higher education, welfare, and schools are to be radically…

By Karen Zouaoui What Ever Happened to Modernism? is Gabriel Josipovici’s rallying cry in the face of an overly conservative literary tradition in the UK.…

By Nick Thorne The recent Privacy International report, Civil Liberties: Up in Smoke contains some excellent arguments against the smoking ban. Nevertheless, the persistent hyperbole…

By Angus Kennedy Europe might not be dead yet, but the patient is on life support and all its vital signs seem to be crashing.…

By Rob Clowes The social web: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and the host of other technologies that invite us to connect to each other through a…

By Maahwish Mirza The emergence of the English Defence League, attacks motivated by a far-right ideology in Norway, and a controversial denunciation by Prime Minister…

By Miguel Fernandes Ceia Even before Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel has begun, the reader is already confronted on the back cover with a wide variety…

By Mark Carrigan We all find it hard to admit that we were wrong, yet this is precisely what the feminist writer and journalist Natasha…

By Miguel Fernandes Ceia As Hannah Arendt pointed out in the introduction to The Sleepwalkers, the ‘modern novel’, the label under which Hermann Broch’s book…

By Michele Ledda Asked about the persistence of historical determinism in the 20th century in an interview given two years before her death, Hannah Arendt…

By George Hoare Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, re-issued at the end of last year by Penguin, is an important book, and there are…