Somerset maugham

History and structure of travel and tourism industry Case study of Georgian Spa City of Bath Abstract This study is focused on the history and structure of travel travel and tourism industry in the City of Bath. It analyses the effects of the industrial revolution in the City of Bath and its stages of development and it gives a brief note on importance of factors facilitating growth like technology, infrastructure, social condition and analyses in its conclusion the

There are three main environments in which the novel, Northanger Abbey, is set. The initial location is Fullerton and it is from here Catherine begins her journey. This is also the place to which Catherine returns at the end of the narrative. By the very fact that Fullerton is located at the start and the end of Catherine's journey, it can be used as a comparison with the other locations in the novel. Catherine wants to leave Fullerton, as it is not exciting enough and certainly not as

There comes a point in everyone’s lives where they are compelled to grow up. When an individual is young, it is advantageous to undergo new experiences and meet wonderful people, but it is also possible to be taken advantage and make silly mistakes. In the novel Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen accurately portrays how the process of maturing is bittersweet. A brief synopsis of this novel is that the main character, Catherine Morland, gets invited to accompany her neighbors in Bath and meets the love

In the short story, “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl the antagonist, the Landlady displays a main character trait of creepiness. The Landlady’s creepiness is evident when she shows that she has been waiting for Billy’s arrival as well as when she stares at Billy for an excess amount of time. The reader first sees the Landlady’s creepiness when Billy rings the doorbell at the Bed and Breakfast “and then at once it must have been at once because he hadn't even had time to take his finger from the bell-button

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was a famous English novelist, who is eminently known for her six novels. Those novels, which include Northanger Abbey also, comment upon the lifestyle, norms, practices, and social existence of British landed gentry towards the end of the 18th century. Apart from that, her novels show the dependence of young girls on marriage in order to get a pleasant social place and financial security. In Northanger Abbey, she gives the social image of different characters

The book Northanger Abbey focuses on young people or teenagers in the 19th Century Britain. The focus of the book is mainly directed towards the way young people fit in a society that was based on rigid hierarchical system that put people into different classes according to wealth, education, reputation and cultural background. Each of the societal rankings has a given set of behavioural patterns that are expected from them by the society as a whole and these expectations are a source of frustration

The Effect of Historical Influences on The Development Of The Theatre Royal Bath In The 18th And 19th Century During the 18th and 19th centuries going to the theatre became very popular, and was a common pastime in the evening. During the first half of the 19th century the theatre was at its most popular throughout the two centuries, and throughout the whole of the 19th century it was as popular as it was during the 18th, attracting the same sort of audience size. Today

Feminism in Northanger Abbey From my point of view, Jane Austen should be seen as a ‘feminist’ writer. As she wrote in one of her novel Persuasion, she considers that ‘Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything’ (Anne Elliot, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion). Such feminist ideas are expressed in many of her literary works. In her another novel

How does Northanger Abbey use representation of buildings and architecture to communicate ideas to the reader? In Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen uses buildings and architecture to represent ideas to the reader about appearance vs reality and to provide evidence for the view that Catherine sees life through a gothic lense. I will be focusing on how Blaise Castle does this and how both Northanger Abbey’s external and internal architecture does this. Appearance vs reality is a strong theme throughout

The Albatross by Kate Bass reveals a kind of loneliness and sadness to it. The poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme, it just flows as you read. It is split into 3 stanzas and has 20 lines that make up the whole poem. Kate Bass is a British poet that was born in North London in 1962. She went to Edinburgh University and studied chemistry, but later studied illustration at Anglia Polytechnic University. Now she lives in Cambridge, England with her family and works as an illustrator. Kate Bass' poems mostly