Potion College Essays Samples For Students

One of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays is the playful and magical A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A play with fairies, young lovers and plenty of humour (largely at Bottom’s expense); this is one of Shakespeare’s most loved stories because of its clever, complicated plot and its entertaining characters. The audience are introduced to the play’s characters: the most important of those being the four young lovers who have a complicated love triangle. Equally as important are the fairies that, arguably, represent the changeable nature of love through Oberon and Titania’s (the fairy king and ...

The Dual Nature of Humanity in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson is infamously well-known for its discussion of the dual nature of humanity. With the mild-mannered Dr Jekyll and his evil, rampaging alter-ego, Mr Hyde, the novel is an allegorical discussion of the human condition and the division between our good and bad sides which all of us harbours inside of ourselves. Each of us can relate to being happy and sad, good-humoured and grumpy, generous and selfish; good and bad. The tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an extreme examination of that condition. ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark tells the tale of Aylmer and Georgiana. They are husband and wife, but it is not a typical love story. Aylmer is a psychotic scientist, out of his mind on a journey to control those around him. Georgiana, use to men lusting after her beauty and birthmark, is a tender, vulnerable, intelligent woman who only wants to make her husband happy. While they are both technically human, the characters are primarily different for many reasons.
Aylmer is perhaps one of the maddest and most complex characters in literary history. While intelligent, he is intellectually ...