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George Orwell's vision of a dystopian world is most disturbing not because of its absurdity but because of the parallels it draws with our own society. By creating a world which features many 'uncanny' featu...

Priestly's opening stage directions already condemn Mrs Birling as "a rather cold woman". At the same time, however, Priestly continually describes her as "his [Mr Birling's] wife" in the...

A symbol is often an object that is described in a text which has a deeper meaning than what it may seem at surface level. It appears singularly or few times throughout a novel or play, for example, flying b...

In George Orwell's dystopian novella "Animal Farm" (1946), Squealer is a character that repeatedly abuses language to manipulate the other animals in order to justify Napoleon's action. This is esp...

Priestley believed that in a rapidly developing capitalist world, issues of social responsibility were of increasing importance. He explores this message in his play, 'An Inspector Calls' through a careful e...