English Essays

The Hospital Window
The Hospital Window The Hospital Window The death of a loved one can put unimaginable stress on the loved ones of the deceased. This stress can make one’s life chaotic and unpleasant for long periods of time if the mourners do not understand the death. James Dickey, who believes, “poetry is the center of the creative wheel,” wrote the poem, “The Hospital Window”. The relationship between mourners and death becomes apparent in this “si...

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles “Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” This quote by Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional character of A.C. Doyle, describes not only Sherlock Holmes but also his creator. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an interesting man and his writing were influenced by many things. Specifically, the novel The Hound of the Basker...

The House of Seven Gables Symbolism
The House of Seven Gables - Symbolism American Literature reflects life, and the struggles that we face during our existence. The great authors of our time incorporate life’s problems into their literature directly and indirectly. The stories themselves bluntly tell us a story, however, an author also uses symbols to relay to us his message in a more subtle manner. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The House of Seven Gable’s symbolism is eloquently used to enhance the story be...

The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street In The House On Mango Street Esperanza reveals personal experiences through which the reader is able to determine what kind of person she is; her views on life, how she views herself, as well as how her poverty affects her view of life, her view of her future, and how her poverty currently affects her place in the world. The vignettes show different aspects of Esperanza’s identity as it evolves and changes progressively throughout The House On Mango S...

The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest In “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, humor functions through the use of Characterization and the social satire of the Victorian period. Characterization is the method an author uses to reveal or describe characters and their various personalities. Satire is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satirical attack. These two c...

The Importance of Family in 20th Century Drama
The Importance of Family in 20th Century Drama Throughout the twentieth century the importance of the institution of the family has been an integral part in American drama. Drama has focused on such family conflicts such as drug addiction, marital problems, and coming to terms with past events. The authors’ diction and the mood of each particular piece of work accentuate these conflicts. The unique combination of familial conflict, language, and mood has produced great piece...

The Individual and the Community In The Crucible
The Individual and the Community In The Crucible The Individual and the Community In The Crucible What One Would do to get others on her side. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the characters in the play face different problems and accusations that they do not always know how to handle. One theme that sums up the play is the individual trying to destroy anyone who gets in the way of her acceptance in the community. Abigail, the niece of Reverend Parris, starts out motivated...

The Influence of Achilles in Homers Iliad
The Influence of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad Achilles: Prince of Phthia. Leader of the Myrmidon contingent. Son of Peleus and Thetis. He is the central character of the Iliad. He is by far the greatest warrior involved in the Trojan War. On the battlefield, he is unstoppable, able to rout whole armies single-handedly. Dealing with his rage is the central action of the epic; he sacrifices many of his allies to his pride, refusing to fight because of an insult to his honor. Hi...

The Influence of Media
The Influence of Media THE INFLUENCE OF MEDIA “Of course is true. I’m watching it on TV”. The previous Statement, a comment made by Conrad Brean during the movie “Wag the Dog”, demonstrates the role of media in human lives. It shows the great importance of television, radio and other means of communication in the decisions that are taken by people. It is possible to notice how big the influence is, and how much does it get to affect the concept or the idea that a per...

The Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos
The Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos In The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. In th...

The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club Who wouldn’t want to get free music off the Internet? I know I would jump at the chance to be able to get all the music I’ve ever wanted for free. This is what the program Napster has attempted to do. But, you have to as yourself, what about copyright laws? What would happen if everybody stopped buying albums because they could get it for free? Napster has broken copyright laws, and album sales have decreased because of Napster. Napster should be shut...

The Jungle 2
The Jungle 2 Sinclair’s book ,The Jungle probably had to do the most with the fact that he himself was a Socialist. He was brought up in Baltimore, and his family was considerately poor. His father was not very successful at his job and for this reason it seems good to believe he became a Socialist because in communist countries it is said that all people are treated equal. An opposite of this book would be “‚Animal Farm”, which Sinclair has probably never re...

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape. This represents the “bridge” between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. This “bridgeR...

The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menageri The play The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses many symbols which represent many different things. Many of the symbols used in the play try to symbolize some form of escape or difference between reality and illusion. The first symbol, presented in the first scene, is the fire escape. This represents the “bridge” between the illusory world of the Wingfields and the world of reality. This “brid...

The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things Lush, poetic and terrifying, Arundhati Roy’s impressive first novel evokes the mystery and contradictions of the Indian sub-continent through the heart-rending story of “two-egg twins,” Rahel and Estha. When Rahel returns to the family home in Ayemenem as a grown woman, she remembers Sophie Mol’s funeral and the day years ago that changed everything. Starting at the end, the tale is told, the drama unfolding in pieces, turning i...

The Good Earth
The Good Earth In the critically acclaimed novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the “Great House of Hwang”(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. Wang Lung lived with his father, wife, and five children, one of whom is mentally retarded. Although Wang Lung supplied all the physical needs ...

The Grapes of Wrath Joads Journey
The Grapes of Wrath - Joads Journey Through out history man has made many journeys, far and wide. Moses’s great march through the Red Sea and Columbus’s transversing the Atlantic are only, but a few of mans great voyages. Even today, great journeys are being made. Terry Fox’s run across Canada while having cancer is one of these such journeys. In every one of these instances people have had to rise above themselves and over come emence odds, similar to a salmon...

The Great Gastby and Downfall of the American Dream
The Great Gastby and Downfall of the American Dream Both F.Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck wrote about the downfall of the American dream in their famous novels. The attempt to capture the American Dream is central to both novels. This dream is different for different people, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness, for George and Lennie, the dream was to make enough money to buy their own land. Jay Gastby, Lennie and George all dream...

The Great Gatsby American Dream
The Great Gatsby - American Dream Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, “American Dream” during the early infancy of our country, proposing this dream as, “That pursuit of a better existence … [and] a higher quality of life through hard work, determination, and devotion.” While this may be what many of the characters in The Great Gatsby believe (Jay Gatsby in particular), one critical ideal is discarded in Fitzgerald’s twisted refinement of Franklin’s definition: ...

The Great Gatsby Analysis of Nick
The Great Gatsby - Analysis of Nick NICK CARRAWAY has a special place in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is not just one character among several; it is through his eyes and ears that the story takes place. In this novel, Nick goes to some length to establish his credibility, indeed his moral integrity, in telling this story about this “great” man called Gatsby. He begins with a reflection on his own upbringing, quoting his father’s words about Nic...

The Great Gatsby Analysis
The Great Gatsby Analysis “That’s the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don’t care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory” -F. Scott Fitzgerald -1924 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald fingered these thoughts into his typewriter one morning in...

The Great Gatsby Compare Dick Diver and Jay Gatsby
The Great Gatsby - Compare Dick Diver and Jay Gatsby COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHARACTERS OF JAY GATSBY AND DICK DIVER. NOTE ESPECIALLY THEIR ATTITUDES TO LIFE, LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS, THEIR DEMISE AND THE ROLES THEY PLAY WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE NOVELS. F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as a writer who chronicled his times. This work has been critically acclaimed for portraying the sentiments of the American people during the 1920s and 1930s. ‘The Great Gatsb...

The Great Gatsby Comparison of Gatsby and Tom Buchanan
The Great Gatsby - Comparison of Gatsby and Tom Buchanan The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a wonderful novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, and Jay’s dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get to this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream. In the past, Jay had a love affair with the affluent Daisy, knowing he could not marry her because he was poor at the time he left her and went to f...

The Great Gatsby Male and Female Interactions
The Great Gatsby - Male and Female Interactions Through the interactions between male and female characters, Fitzgerald depicts a variety of social expectations regarding “typical” male behavior in the 1920’s. In the novel The Great Gatsby, characters such as Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby, George Wilson and Nick Carraway demonstrate behavior that acts to maintain and live up to expectations inherent in society. Through their controlling ways, these characters stri...

The Great Gatsby Nick and Gatsby actions
The Great Gatsby-Nick and Gatsby actions The differences of interaction between Nick and Gatsby in the movie and the novel is most prevalent in three instances: when Nick first meets Gatsby, when Gatsby asks Nick for favors, and finally Gatsby’s constant dominating tone in the film versus his somewhat passive tone in the novel. The first instance of dialog between Gatsby and Nick in the movie occurs in the same time frame as the book; during Gatsby’s ostentatious party. ...