English Essays

Franny vs Holden
Franny vs Holden Holden as a foil ti Zooey By: E.S. Although they are the protagonists from two separate books, Franny Glass, a teenage girl in J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, and Holden Caufield, a young man in Salinger’s novel Catcher in the Rye, serve as foils to each other. Both suffer unnecessarily due to their interaction with those whom they are close to, due to their relationships with themselves, as well as due to their views on the world. In the end, however F...

Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka Franz Kafka is a writer that has had a great influence on the literary world, but before becoming an eminent individual, he was fairly unknown. Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883. He was the first child of Julie and Hermann Kafka, a middle-class Jewish family. Kafka had siblings, most of which died in the Nazi concentration camps. He assumed the role of the “oldest brother” when two of his brothers died in their infant years. He didn’t have a strong relations...

Fraternities
Fraternities A fraternity, as defined by the The American Heritage Dictionary is “a chiefly social organization of male college students, usually designated by Greek letters.”(pg. 523) This definition, however, is very limited and leaves plenty of space for short sighted people to believe the stereotype conveyed by the popular media, where fraternity members are depicted as drunks who accomplish nothing either scholastically or socially. Unfortunately, both ...

Fredrick Douglas
Fredrick Douglas Fredrick Douglass Frederick Douglas “Abolitionist/Editor” A biography of the life of Frederick Douglas by Sandra Thomas Frederick Douglas was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. A brilliant speaker, Douglas was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and so became recognized as one of America’s...

Free at Last
Free at Last Free At Last When a reader first reads The Yellow Wallpaper it appears to be a story of a young woman suffering from post pardum depression that slowly ends in the total loss of reality. However, understanding that Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist, and her writings share a common theme that women do not have an equal human status in society, the story takes on a whole new meaning. The author’s creative use of symbolism in The Yellow Wallpaper allows...

Ethan Frome Antagonism
Ethan Frome - Antagonism ‘“That man touch a hundred? He looks as if he was dead and in hell now!”’ Ethan Frome was a man whose fate was never meant for him to be happy and satisfied with his life. He could definitely be considered the scapegoat of a situation that could arguably be his own fault. The deaths of his father, mother and, ironically, his marriage to Zeena were all problematic misfortunes that he dealt with each day. And then his sad tale takes a turn fo...

Ethan Frome Fantasy is an Escape from Winter
Ethan Frome - Fantasy is an Escape from Winter Ethan Frome, the title character of Edith Wharton’s tragic novel, lives in his own world of silence, where he replaces his scarcity of words with images and fantasies. There is striking symbolism in the imagery, predominantly that of winter which connotes frigidity, detachment, bleakness and seclusion. Twenty-eight year old Ethan feels trapped in his hometown of Starkfield, Massachusetts. He marries thirty-four year old Zeena ...

Ethan Frome Marriage Symbolism
Ethan Frome-Marriage Symbolism The Marriage Symbolism In the novel Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, as in many other novels, there are many issues that subtly and sometimes not so subtly, are represented with symbols. One such issue in the novel is the marriage between Ethan and Zeena, and how each other’s emotion agitates the other. This is a cold and passionless marriage, where partners are not connected and neither communicates with each other. While Zeena has many symbol...

Ethan Frome faliure
Ethan Frome-faliure Failure in Ethan Frome The main theme of the book Ethan Frome is failure. It is shown in three ways throughout the story: Ethan’s marriage, him not being able to stand up to Zeena, and his involvement in the “smash up”. Ethan marries Zeena so he won’t be alone after his mother dies. She seemed like a very cheerful, vivacious person while his mother was sick. After their marriage all this changed. She became a very nagging, sick wi...

Evelina and The Subordination of Women
Evelina and The Subordination of Women Woman as a Subordinate Throughout history, women have been treated as a subordinate. There have been different standards for education, at women’s disadvantage, different social standards, different responsibilities for men and women, different expectations, different standards for “goodness”, different criteria for virtuousness. We see examples of these injustices throughout the text of Evelina as well as in the excerpts in the c...

Eveline
Eveline Final Draft – Psychological Response “Eveline” I agree to the fact that a teenager gives adults an opportunity to change their habit patterns but do not agree that the invitation encourages them to break their habit patterns. Instead, the invitation allows adults to redefine their established habits, perspectives and opinions. This not only allows adults to establish a better understanding of teenagers, but also encourages the teenager to grow and mature at an ac...

Everyday Use
Everyday Use Alice Walker’s short story “Everyday Use” takes place in the southern part of the United States. She portrays Mama and Maggie as people having qualities admired by society, and Dee as a person who thinks that those qualities come from an uneducated and poor home. In her short story, she reminds us that patience is a great virtue and that it is an essential part of our culture and heritage. At the start of the story, Alice Walker describes Mama as “a large,...

Evil Instincts in Lord of the Flies
Evil Instincts in Lord of the Flies Evil Instincts by Sasha-Li Chinloy EVIL INSTINCTS The world is composed of both good and evil. However, it seems that the evil component prevails over the good component. The media is bombarded with headlines such as those dealing with the Montreal Massacre, the Paul Bernado/ Carla Hamolka saga and the Columbine Shooting. This evil can be traced beyond the headlines to the root of the problem. The root of the problem is the darkness of h...

Evil in Dante and Chaucer
Evil in Dante and Chaucer We in the twentieth century would be much more hard-pressed to define evil than would people of either Chaucer’s or Dante’s time. Medieval Christians would have a source for it — Satan — and if could easily devise a series of ecclesiastical checklists to test its presence and its power. In our secular world, evil has come down to something that hurts people for...

Evolution
Evolution INTRODUCTION Theories explaining biological evolution have been bandied about since the ancient Greeks, but it was not until the Enlightment of the 18th century that widespread acceptance and development of this theory emerged. In the mid 19th century english naturalist Charles Darwin - who has been called the “father of evolution” - conceived of the most comprehensive findings about organic evolution ever1. Today many of his principles still entail m...

Faceless Societies
Faceless Societies As indicated by “Self-Reliance,” an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.” Emerson points out that as society works to rid men of their “manhood,” man’s sense of distinctiveness. In isolation, every man has the freedom to think on his own; therefore, being an individual person. Adhering to the norms of society destroyed their freedom; thus, causing a ...

Faherneit 451
Faherneit 451 The old woman in Fahrenheit 451 Burned herself for what she believed in. She chose to die than to live a life without books. She would not give in to the ways of the ignorant Firemen. Aside from the book, there are women through history that have done the same thing, such as the Joan of Arc who believe she was a messenger from God . Tahirih an Iranian was said to be a mautyr cause of her beliefs .Also Solange,Elizabeth In the book Farenheit 451 the women burned ...

Falling leaves
Falling leaves In order to explain the first scene in this memoir, Adeline Yen Mah has filled the opening chapters with lusty images of an emerging nation amid burgeoning commercial & international life at the end of an empire & the start of a revolution. Falling leaves, with its endearing cover photo, touching chapter titles & sprinkling of Chinese language characters, is about her family in the French Concession of Shanghai; about her Buddhist grandfather’...

Farenheit 451
Farenheit 451 THE MELTING POT Walking through the halls at school I sometimes think to my self; what is technology? Technology to me feels like a ticking time bomb, just waiting to go off at the right moment. How do we benefit from it? Are you sure were not slowly killing our selves in a would be perfect, but not perfect society? Is the time we spend to make our every day lives easier with technology. Not making our every day lives shorter. I sit down at my computer to explore...

Faust
Faust The hero that never was In Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe builds a dramatic poem around the strengths and weaknesses of a man who under a personalized definition of a hero fails miserably. A hero is someone that humanity models themselves and their actions after, someone who can be revered by the masses as an individual of great morality and strength, a man or woman that never sacrifices his beliefs under adversity. Therefore, through his immoral actions and his unwi...

Fawns Leep
Fawns Leep In the year 2,300, the U.S. went to war with Australia. Adam and Tyrone, both soldiers from the U.S., were in an airplane bombing the Australians when a surprise attack from the Aussies caused their plane to catch fire. Both boys were equipped with parachutes and ready to jump to their safety on the ground… “Just jump Adam!” Tyrone screamed over Adam’s trembling shoulders. Tyrone was scared another bomb would hit their already flaming plane. “I can’t...

Female Characters of The Great Gatsby
Female Characters of The Great Gatsby Women of the early 1900s were focused on pleasure, beauty, and glamour. Many depended on a spouse and characterized social status with money. Women of this time period were especially materialistic; most of the female characters in The Great Gatsby displayed a value for wealth. Daisy’s first priority obviously wasn’t her family. Throughout the entire account, Daisy’s daughter was mentioned once. In chapter seven, we meet Daisy’s...

Feminism in Beloved
Feminism in Beloved A Feminist Outlook on Maternal vs. Paternal Instincts in Beloved Since the beginning of time, the mother and child relationship has differed greatly from the father and child relationship. Though both parents love their child greatly, both parents dare not cross certain boundaries. The limitations of protection for a mother are far different from paternal limitations. In her novel, Beloved, Morrison introduces the subject of infanticide, and explores the d...

Feminist Controversy of the 1790s
Feminist Controversy of the 1790’s Feminism during the eighteenth century has come to be defined by the literature of the time. Women, who did not have as many outlets as they do today, expressed their political opinions through literature itself. Although feminist texts existed before the end of the century, women writers in the final decade were seen as more threatening to the dominant patriarchal system. Following the overthrow of the government in France, women in B...

Feminist Movement
Feminist Movement Feminist Movement During the late 1930’s John Steinbeck wrote the short story “The Chrysanthemums”. During that time America was facing many issues such as the Great Depression, unions were developing, and child labor in manufacturing was terminated (Jones 805-6). The country appeared to be a male – dominated society that didn’t allow females of any type any recognitions or leadership. Even if women tried they could not be leaders,participate nor c...