English Essays

The Changing Mileau
The Changing Mileau I have always been interested in the impressionist style of art, especially the work of Claude Monet. When making my book selection I took this under consideration and chose a book written by Raymond Cogniat entitled Monet and His World. This lively illustrated book is written with great detail. Using explanations, illustrations, pictures and paintings, Cogniat helps to illustrate not only the life of Monet, but also the world of Impressionism, art and French...

The Characters of Native Son
The Characters of Native Son Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, consists of various main and supporting characters to deliver an effective array of expression. Each character’s actions define their individual personalities and beliefs. The main character, Bigger Thomas, has personality traits spanning various aspects of human nature, including actions motivated by fear, quick temper, and a high degree of intelligence. Bigger, whom the novel revolves around, portr...

The Charge of the Light and Dulce Et Decorum Est
The Charge of the Light and Dulce Et Decorum Est Death-An Inevitable Part of Life “In the midst of life we are in death,” these famous words spoken anonymously have held true throughout time. Death is an inevitable part of life, and without each other would fail to exist. Throughout history, poets and authors have tried to capture death and its sting and glory through literature. They have also tried to explain what happens beyond death. Death, like a coin, has two sides...

The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake William Blake’s poem, The Chimney Sweeper is about a young child whose father sells his services to the rich. He was so young at this point he could not even say the word sweep as indicated in line three. He is to clean their chimneys of all the soot and dirt from their use of the fireplace. The boy encounters Tom Dacre who had a wild dream of an angle who set free all fellow chimney sweepers that were locked in a coffin. In this dream...

The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Chosen by Chaim Potok One of the most emotional scenes from Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is when Reuven goes with Danny Saunders to talk to his father. Danny has a great mind and wants to use it to study psychology, not become a Hasidic tzaddik. The two go into Reb Saunders’ study to explain to him what is going to happen, and before Danny can bring it up, his father does. Reb Saunders explains to the two friends that he already known that Reuven is going to go for his smich...

The Classroom Can Learn a Lot from the Racetrack
The Classroom Can Learn a Lot from the Racetrack The Classroom Can Learn a Lot from the Racetrack As years pass, more and more students are putting school on a lower and lower priority. School just doesn’t seem that important anymore. Students feel as if they don’t need to try as hard. Students have lost their zeal for schoolwork for a variety of reasons. The first is that they see little or no benefit or cost to not trying. Others just don’t care. There are many ...

The Club by David Williamson
The Club by David Williamson In his play The Club, David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However, many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s, although some of course have changed somewhat over the time since the play was written nearly twenty years ago. Tradition plays a very important part in The Club. Each of the characters of course has his own ideas and attitudes towar...

The Color Purple The Struggle to Express Themselves
The Color Purple - The Struggle to Express Themselves There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from prior ages of thought and scarcely realize that we hold: it is an implicit belief, not an explicit one, and it is so large a theory that it is woven into all of our ideas about history, both within Europe and without....

The Corrupting nature of Money In Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol
The Corrupting nature of Money In Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol Literature often deals with the human drive for wealth and material success. The love of money often exercises a harmful power over individuals, causing a conflict both within themselves and with others. Although the characters in A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations assess the value of people only in terms of their financial contributions to society, they learn that self respect and dignity can be ...

The Count Of Monte Cristo
The Count Of Monte Cristo The Count of Monte Cristo is a very powerful book. So powerful in fact, that was controversial when it was first released. The Catholic church in France condemned it because of its powerful message it presented the reader. This theme was one of revenge and vengeance. Monte Cristo had two goals- to reward those who were kind to him and his aging father, and to punish those responsible for his imprisonment and suffering. For the latter, he plans slow and ...

The Crucible Good versus Evil
The Crucible - Good versus Evil It was a play with tremendous feelings with many inside twists hidd en in the archives of the true story. It was a play with emotional feelings; feelings of anger , hate, and evil, yet feelings of manipulation, good, and pureness. It was the Crucible. A fireball of guilt, evil, and good compiled into one magnification. The Crucible: Good versus Evil. The play contained many scenarios of good versus evil, and the characters who generally possess...

The Crucible Revenge
The Crucible - Revenge Revenge plays a major role in the story, “The Crucible.” Due to the social structures of society and the confusion that existed upon the townspeople, because of the dancing in the forest by the teenage girls that lived in town, it was very easy for the townspeople to believe that witchery was the cause for all of this confusion. Suspicion arose among the towns’ people to blame each other for these happenings. The doors now opened for all ...

The Crucible Summary
The Crucible Summary The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic witch trials. The entire community is in pandemonium yet certain characters are also fighting internal conflicts of their own. Miller uses three characters who manifest this internal battle ever so clearly. Such as Mary Warren who whole personality turns upside down, John Proctor who contemplates between the importance of his family and his o...

The Crucible The Deterioration of Salem During the Witch Trials
The Crucible - The Deterioration of Salem During the Witch Trials The deterioration of Salem’s social structure precipitated the murders of many innocent people. Arthur Miller’s depiction of the Salem witch trials, The Crucible, deals with a community that starts out looking like it is tightly knit and church loving. It turns out that once Tituba starts pointing her finger at the witches, the community starts pointing their fingers at each other. Hysteria and hidden agendas ...

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller The True Devils in Salem In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the madness of the Salem witch trials is explored in great detail. There are many theories as to why the witch trials came about, the most popular of which is the girls’ suppressed childhoods. However, there were other factors as well, such as Abigail Williams’ affair with John Proctor, the secret grudges that neighbors held against each other, and the physical and economic dif...

The Crucible
The Crucible The definition of judgement according to Encarta Encyclopedia, is the formation of an opinion. It is a simple definition, clear and direct. Although, there is more to the word judgement than meets the eye. What about the last word in the definition? What is an opinion? An opinion is described as a belief or conclusion that is held without any substantial proof. That word might not seem to have too much significance at this very moment, but it did back in 1692, in Sa...

The Crucuible
The Crucuible The Crucible In the play The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, it is clear to the reader that many of the characters are obvious examples of hypocrisy in how they teach virtues that they themselves do not possess. Throughout the play characters including, Abigail Williams, Reverend Parris, and Judge Danforth show these qualities. In this essay the reader will be made aware of the characters hypocritical way’s through examples in the play. The reader will also be ...

The Crystal Cave
The Crystal Cave The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart, is a story in the first person, whereas an elderly Merlin tells of his coming of age. The novel began in medieval Wales in the kingdom of Maridunum. The story then moves to Brittany, or Lesser Britain. He then comes back to Wales, then, the rest of Greater Britain, ending up in Cornwall. The themes of this story are about coming of age, good versus evil and things aren’t always, as they appear to be. Myrddin Emyrs, also ...

The Dentists Office
The Dentists Office The Dentist’s Office Early on a Monday morning, the sun begins to shine through the windows like a spotlight into a black night sky. It is time to go to the dentist for the biannual check-up. Eating a large breakfast is out of the question because being late to the dentist is like giving up a spot in a line for a ride at Disney World. Monday morning traffic is almost as bad as rush hour traffic on Friday, if not worse. Women putting on their makeup, me...

The Development Of Gilgameshs Character
The Development Of Gilgamesh’s Character Gilgamesh is an epic of great love, followed by lingering grief that causes a significant change in his character. It is the story of a person who is feared and honored, a person who loves and hates, a person who wins and loses and a person who lives life. Although, Gilgamesh’s journey is larger than life, yet ends so commonly with death. Through Gilgamesh, the fate of mankind is revealed, and the inevitable factor of change is ex...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers is a story of love illustrated through the romantic longings and attractions of the three eccentric characters; Miss Amelia, Cousin Lymon, and Marvin Macy. McCullers depicts love as a force, often strong enough to change people’s attitudes and behaviors. Yet, the author seems to say, if the love is unrequited, individuals, having lost their motivation to change, will revert back t...

The Birthmark
The Birthmark Originator: Copywork Staff English: Human nature vs. mother nature, the birthmark by hawthorne 2000-07-06 Are you unhappy with your looks? If you are, then you should feel at home as a member of human kind. You can dye your hair and wear colored eye contact lenses. Humankind is the only place where one can receive a “boob-job” or have a tattoo put on your chest and then have it removed when you are ready for a change. An instant, effortless weightloss program? ...

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe Character of “The Black Cat” Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat” involves a man and his love hate relationship for animals that ends in sin. He describes himself as loving animals of all kinds, “I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets”(307). The character of this story goes through some changes of his own. After giving much love and care to his animals he starts to ...

The Bluest Eye A Reality of Presence
The Bluest Eye - A Reality of Presence In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison shows that anger is healthy and that it is not something to be feared; those who are not able to get angry are the ones who suffer the most. She criticizes Cholly, Polly, Claudia, Soaphead Church, the Mobile Girls, and Pecola because these blacks in her story wrongly place their anger on themselves, their own race, their family, or even God, instead of being angry at those they should have been angry at: whi...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Post World War I, many new opportunities were given to the growing and expanding group of African Americans living in the North. Almost 500,00 African Americans moved to the northern states between 1910 and 1920. This was the beginning of a continuing migration northward. More than 1,500,000 blacks went north in the 1930’s and 2,500,00 in the 1940’s. Life in the North was very hard for African Americans. Race riots, limited housing res...