English Essays

Anthem Characters
Anthem - Characters Characters in Anthem Quote: Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelets which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it. We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are feet tall. (18) Response: In Ayn Rand’s book ANTHEM, the Equality 7-2521 people are the major characters in the story Anthem. From the beginning of the story to the end they hav...

Anthem by Ayn Rand
Anthem by Ayn Rand A standard rule of writing states that one should refrain from using the word “I” in one’s writing. Somehow this rule seems singularly inappropriate when writing about the book Anthem. I wish to talk about my thoughts on this work. I will not abstract my ideas so that I can refer to them without referring to myself; they are my ideas, my thoughts, and my impressions. Many years ago, I read my first book by Ayn Rand, Anthem. When I decided ...

Anthem
Anthem In the novel Anthem, Ayn Rand writes about the future dark ages. Anthem takes place in city of a technologically backwards totalitarian society, where mankind is born in the home of the infants and dies in the home of the useless. Just imagine, being born in to a life of slavery having no freedom, no way self expression, no ego. The city represented slavery. When in the city, Equality had been guilty of many transgressions. He was not like his brothers, he was differen...

Antigone A Chorus of Women
Antigone A Chorus of Women The Chorus, being a group of women, was a crucial part of this production of Antigone. The fact that they death by the end. They were the bridge that connected Creon and Antigone involved with both of their downfalls. The way that this was shown was through costume and change of costume during the play. In the beginning masks, which hid their gender and emphasized their words, making what they said more important than who they were. They spoke to Creo...

Antigone Creon as a Tragic Hero
Antigone - Creon as a Tragic Hero In the story Antigone, Creon shows all of the characteristics of a tragic hero. He receives pity through the audience, yet recognizes his weakness, and whose downfall comes from his own self-pride. Though the audience notices how villainous Creon is, they still express pity towards him. They realize the he brought all of his problems on himself and should have been more open-minded, but think no one should go through that. They also understand h...

Antigone Creon is the Tragic Hero
Antigone - Creon is the Tragic Hero The Thebian play of Antigone has excited many debates over the years. The most prevalent being who exactly could be characterized as the tragic hero in the story. The argument that Antigone is the hero is deffinatly a strong one. There are many critics who believe that Creon, however, is the true protagonist of the play. In order to determine whether or not Creon is the tragic hero one must first examine what a tragic hero is. Aristotle states...

Antigone by Socrates
Antigone by Socrates In the short play Antigone, by Socrates, we find the chorus embodies the static voice of traditional society in many ways. In this play traditional society is following the rules and also obeying King Kreon and his rules. We will see how the characters Antigone, Kreon and Isemene relate to traditional society. The character Antigone is loyal to her family despite the unjust laws of Kreon. Antigone shows this by saying ” He’s my brother and yours...

Antigone
Antigone The debate over who is the tragic hero in Antigone continue on to this day. The belief that Antigone is the hero is a strong one. There are many critics who believe, however, that Creon, the Ruler of Thebes, is the true protagonist. I have made my own judgments also, based on what I have researched of this work by Sophocles. Antigone is widely thought of as the tragic hero of the play bearing her name. She would seem to fit the part in light of the fact that she dies in...

Antihero
Antihero Somebody Different or Special? “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Many times Anti-heroes are the outcasts or quite people in society. The do not care what other people think. But for the most part they do these things just for the thrill or just to be different. The Classical American Hero on the other hand looks for ways to do something spectacular. The anti-hero doesn’t like ...

A Separate Peace War
A Separate Peace - War A Separate Peace In his book A Separate Peace John Knowles communicates what war really is. He uses a number of complex characters in a very complicated plot in order to convey the harsh, sad, cruel, destructive forces of war. The Characters Gene and Finny are used as opposing forces in a struggle between that cold reality of war-that is World War II in this story-and a separate peace. A peace away from the real war and all of the terrible things that co...

A Street Car Named Desire
A Street Car Named Desire In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband, Stanley Kowalski, and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. His brutish and ferocious ac...

A Streetcar Named Desire Alternation of Stella
A Streetcar Named Desire - Alternation of Stella Stella fled from the room after being smacked by Stanley, for her it was a regular occurrence she knew that she had stepped out of line when she was talking to Stanley, Stella had seen the smack coming. But for Blanche it was something new to see, she had never been struck by a man, had never seen a woman being struck by a man and couldn’t understand why this barbarian, this ape had struck her sister. The question though was, ...

A Streetcar Named Desire Complexity of the Characters
A Streetcar Named Desire - Complexity of the Characters It is the complexity of the main characters and their interactions that make A Streetcar Named Desire such a successful and challenging play. The play A Streetcar Named Desire made playwright Tennessee William’s name and has deservedly since had over half a century of success. This remarkable success can be credited to the intricate characters and their interactions with each other. Sisters, Stella and Blanche have...

A Tale of Two Cities Character Analysis
A Tale of Two Cities - Character Analysis In the 16th century Charles Dickens wrote the unforgettable novel A Tale of Two Cities. In it he created two of the most remarkable fictional characters of all time. One is the bloodthirsty Madame Defarge, and the other is the selfless Sydney Carton. Madame Defarge is a peasant who seeks revenge on all aristocrats who cross her path. In contrast, Sydney Carton is a man who is willing to do anything for the love of his life. While th...

A Tale of Two Cities Essay
A Tale of Two Cities Essay Two Cities Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson’s Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette’s daughter who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at Defarge’s wine shop in Paris, they found Mr. Manette in a dreadful state and took him back to London with them. Mr. Manette could not rember why he had been imprisoned, or when he w...

A Tale of Two Cities Syndney Carton Analysis
A Tale of Two Cities - Syndney Carton Analysis Sydney Carton dies on the guillotine to spare Charles Darnay. How you interpret Carton’s sacrifice- positively or negatively- will affect your judgment of his character, and of Dickens’ entire work. Some readers take the positive view that Carton’s act is a triumph of individual love over the mob hatred of the Revolution. Carton and the seamstress he comforts meet their deaths with great dignity. In fulf...

A Tale of two cities Two Cities
A Tale of two cities - Two Cities Two Cities Jarvis Lorry, an employee of Tellson’s Bank, was sent to find Dr. Manette, an unjustly imprisoned physician, in Paris and bring him back to England. Lucie, Manette’s daughter who thought that he was dead, accompanied Mr. Lorry. Upon arriving at Defarge’s wine shop in Paris, they found Mr. Manette in a dreadful state and took him back to London with them. Mr. Manette could not rember why he had been imprisoned, or wh...

A Valediction Forbidding by Milton
A Valediction Forbidding by Milton Milton is writing at the cusp of the Renaissance. The emerging sciences, arts, and literature point to a different sense of the individual than that of the dark ages. Milton was straddling the heavy hand of the church and religion of the Middle Ages and the humanism and individualism of the future, both in his personal philosophy and in his historical context. Milton was, in many ways, a humanist and believed in the value of human life as well ...

A View from The Bridge by Arthur Miller
A View from The Bridge by Arthur Miller After reading Arthur Miller’s play “A view from the bridge,” I am convinced that the most striking character is Marco. He is an Italian immigrant that moved illegally to the United States with his brother Rodolpho to work as longshoremen, since at the time (the play was written in 1955) his country of origin, Italy, was going through a major economic depression because of the outcome of World War II. In the play, we are t...

A Widow For One Year by John Irving
A Widow For One Year by John Irving Composing a novel, is like the construction the interior architecture of the house you live in. Other people will pass through and say, ‘Oh, it’s a nice house but what a hideous window over the kitchen table.’ Only a writer really lives in a novel. So much of what works best about it are things that people who come to dinner never know about or see”(Interview 1). John Irving is an author and a master storyteller who illustrates his...

A Worn Path Persistence
A Worn Path - Persistence An author by the name of M. C. Richards once stated the value of persistence. This statement reads, “A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.” In other words, persistence is more important than knowing the path on which one is walking. Because of persistence, humankind has long evolved from the primitives of the Stone Age. Even now, humankind struggles against war, bigotry, and poverty. This i...

Adolescents Vs Media
Adolescents Vs Media The discrimination of adolescents has steadily increased over the years. Adults and media of modern day society discriminate all adolescents behavior based on a small minority of teens. First of all, the behavior of adolescents is a main cause of discrimination. Adolescents want attention from society by acting inappropriately and claiming it as individualism. The new generation of adolescents acts differently mainly because they have too much freedom; th...

After the Bomb Book Summary
After the Bomb - Book Summary After the Bomb written by Gloria Miklowitz is a thrilling novel that takes place before, during, and after a bomb which supposedly was sent from Russia by accident. L.A. and surrounding cities are all altered by the disastrous happening. Philip Singer a teenager is in a position as leader of the family. His brother Matt is awfully sick, possibly from radiation, his father was away at work during the blast and for all Philip knows he might be dead, a...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus
Agamemnon by Aeschylus In Aeschylus’ Agamemnon there are many different opinions about what kind of king and commander Agamemnon was. Some argued that he was good, while others dispute that his motives were wrong. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon’s wife, gained a strong hatred for him, after he sacrificed his own daughter so he could go to war. Many believe that this was not necessary and could have been overcome. The chorus seems to agree with this to an extent, and feels that A...

Agony and Ectacy
Agony and Ectacy THEME: When looking at the life of one of history’s greatest men, the lessons we might learn are countless, despite Irving Stone’s fictional twists. Before we can begin to examine The Agony and the Ecstasy, we must understand Michelangelo and other artists as Stone saw them. Stone considered the artist a creator as well as a part of creation, just as God is seen in many of today’s ideologies. Michelangelo’s life can likewise be paralleled to Genesis. At...