English Essays

White Oleander by Janet Fitch
White Oleander by Janet Fitch “Without my wounds who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.” In White Oleander by Janet Fitch,the above quote perfectly describes the confusion of the main character who is desperately trying to figure out who she is in a world that has seemingly forgotten her. The main theme of this book is self-discovery. The main character, Astrid Magnussen is trying to di...

Who Said What Means
Who Said What Means Rudy Yurkovich Who Said What Means Ask yourselves these questions before you read Kincaid’s “Girl”, Do you know what a housewife is, being a student or child, getting advice from an elder, and being called something that you are not? What is this story’s about is it a story at all or just a poem in essay form? What kind of mood are you in right now to decipher this story in your own words? The story depends on the mood you are in and change th...

Why the Caged Bird Sings
Why the Caged Bird Sings When Maya Angelou says “I know why the caged bird sings,” I think we ought to believe her, since she managed to write a whole book on the subject. I also think she must have had some important motives for writing the book since it does reveal her life story. But I think telling her story as a self expression was one of her purposes for the book. Aside from that, she wanted to depict the cultural situations she grew up in, as well as make social comme...

Wife of Bath
Wife of Bath Analysis of the Wife of Bath In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chaucer starts his prologue with the description of twenty-nine people who are going on a pilgrimage. Each person has a different personality that we can recognize from the way people behave today. He purposely makes The Wife of Bath stand out more compared to the other characters. “In the “General Prologue,’ the wife of bath is intentionally described in an explicit way to provoke a shocking re...

Wife of bath Maistrie
Wife of bath-Maistrie Beginning her tale unannounced, the Wife of Bath bursts onto the scene taking the entire pilgrimage by surprise. Her agenda is to engage in the medieval debate on marriage, confronting the scholarly authority of the church from the standpoint of common experience. Her main emphasis is on maistrie and believes that women should have the upper hand in marriage, making winning and retaining maistrie their main objective. She also refutes canon law which says ...

Wife of beth
Wife of beth The Wife of Bath’s Prologue contains the story of a woman that had a great experience with men and married life. She is not a typical wife of her times, but rather she represents a very masculine female. The Wife of Bath is an incredibly influential and dynamic individual, while the concept of the ideal woman at the time was to be submissive and powerless. The Wife of Bath tells the pilgrims that she has always followed her appetite, at a time when ideally wo...

William Blake Poetry
William Blake Poetry “The Little Boy Lost” “Father, Father, where are you going? “O do not walk so fast. “Speak, father, speak to your little boy, “Or else I shall be lost.” 4 The night was dark, no father was there; The child was wet with dew; The mire was deep, and the child did weep, And away the vapour flew. 8 “The Little Boy Found” Th...

William Blake and the Romantic period
William Blake and the Romantic period William Blake lived from 1757-1827. He based most of his works in the style of Romanticism. Much like William Wordsworth, Blake wrote from the heart, letting natural expression take over. Many of the writers of the Romantic period felt they had entered an imaginative climate, which some of them called “the Spirit Age.” During this “Spirit Age,” many authors felt that freedom and spontaneity were the key elements in poetry. Before thi...

William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner “A preeminent figure in twentieth-century American literature, Faulkner created a profound and complex body of work in which he often explored exploitation and corruption in the American South.” William Faulkner’s writing most commonly set in Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional area based on his homeland of Mississippi. Explore the history of the South while making thorough observations of Human Character. The purpose...

William Faulkner
William Faulkner William Faulkner is viewed by many as America’s greatest writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his time. William Faulkner’s accomplishments resulted not only from his love and devotion to writing, but also from family, friends...

William Styron The Long March
William Styron - The Long March William Styron was born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11th, 1935. His father, William Clark Styron, was a shipyard engineer who had come to Virginia from Washington, a port town on the Pamlico River in North Carolina. His mother, Pauline Margaret Abraham Styron, was a member of a Pennsylvanian family from Uniontown, a small city in the coke-manufacturing area southeast of Pittsburgh. At an early age William showed an aptitude for the writ...

William Wordsworth Biographical Essay
William Wordsworth Biographical Essay A Biographical Essay on the Life of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth, a famous poet of the Romantic Period, wrote a great deal of poetry that was inspired by his lifestyle. Wordsworth’s fond love of nature, unusual childhood, and numerous influential relationships with others all played large roles in the poems that he produced. William lost both his mother and his father at a fairly young age. He spent much of his childhood in ...

William golding Life history
William golding - Life history William Golding’s Life Outline William Golding led a fulfilled life that helped him write the wonderful novels that he did. Many of Goldings experiences and encounters throughout life caused Golding to be a world renowned writer. Many of Goldings works can be related in one way or another to key points in Goldings history. William Golding has become what is considered one of the worlds greatest authors. William Golding had several moments in ...

Willy Loman as a tragic hero
Willy Loman as a tragic hero Willy Loman as a Tragic Hero in Death of a Salesman It makes little sense that tragedy should only pertain to those in high ranks. As explained in his essay “Tragedy and the Common Man,” Arthur Miller sets out the pattern for his own idea of a tragedy and the tragic hero. This pattern supports the idea that a tragedy can occur in characters of common men as well as those in high places. In his paper, he demonstrates that it should be pos...

Willy Lomans Sucess
Willy Lomans Sucess One of the important themes in Death of a Salesman is the nature of success. Many people believe that success is about making a lot of money. They say that with money comes happiness. However this may not always be true. In other words success is defined as the accomplishment of something that was desired. Furthermore it is about being happy, proud and secure about yourself. Although true success originates from the heart, achieving it requires hard work an...

Willy loman vs Oedipus The King
Willy loman vs. Oedipus The King Willy Vs. The King Although they were composed around 2,500 years apart from one another, Oedipus The King by Sophocles, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller are known as two of the best tragedy plays ever written. Both of these plays twist and turn with tragedy, and irony. Oedipus was bore to the king and queen of Thebes. At a very young age, they disowned Oedipus and drove metal pins through his ankles and gave them to a shepherd. The s...

Wise Blood
Wise Blood “Hazel Motes’ Pursuit of Truth (Truth’s Opposite)…” In an unusual way, many of Flannery O’Connor’s characters in Wise Blood reveal many important truths about themselves and others, demonstrating their capacity for vision, despite their tendency to embark on perilous journeys in pursuit of truth’s opposite. For Hazel Motes, Wise Blood’s protagonist, the phallus becomes the vehicle that drives him on his journey into falsehood, and paradoxically, ...

With Malice Toward None by Stephen BOates
With Malice Toward None by Stephen B.Oates About the Author Stephen B. Oates is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of eight other books, including The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His purpose of this biography was to bring the past into the present for us and his students. The Life of Abraham Lincoln Although other sta...

Vicar Hugo biography
Vicar Hugo biography In France, Vicar Hugo is know as one of the greatest poets of all time. Worldwide, however, Hugo is much more widely know for Les Miserables, his internationally successful novel depicting a man in search of justice. Throughout his life, Hugo wrote several other novels, verse, and poetry. it is said that every morning, Victor would write no less than 100 lines of verse or 20 pages of prose. Not much is known about Victor Hugo’s childhood. He was ...

Victorian Literature
Victorian Literature ” The Victorian literature (1832-1901)” Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837. Her reign, the longest in English history, lasted until 1901. This period is called the Victorian Age. During the Victorian Age, great economic, social, and political changes occurred in Britain. The British Empire reached its height and covered about a quarter of the world’s land. Industry and trade expanded rapidly, and railways and canals crissc...

Vietnam
Vietnam The very mention of the name Vietnam in the 1960s and ’70s came to signify either a brutal jungle war or a spectacular failure of American power - or both. Thankfully, the combined legacies of French occupation, the Vietnam War and withdrawal of Soviet aid in 1990 have given way to the Vietnamese citizens’ thriving entrepreneurial spirit, fueled by overseas investment and a relaxing of government control. And yet, the exotic chime of names and places still re...

Violent youth
Violent youth Throughout history, mankind has always had a sick sense of violence and a thirst for blood dating from the Romans and their gladiator fights to Hitler and his guile regime. Both of theses cultures started of with good ideas and left many innovations, but in their advancements in technologies and civics the society they built collapsed beneath them because of their own hunger for evil. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the montage of a morbid blood thirst a...

Volotaire candide
Volotaire candide Candide Voltaire’s Candide is the story of an innocent man’s experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually achieve happiness. In life, “man must find a medium between what Martin (scholar and companion to Candide) calls the “convulsions ...

Voltaire Notes About Candide
Voltaire Notes About Candide Candide, a novel by Voltaire, is an adventure story that can be summed up into one word: eccentric. The story begins with the introduction of an extremely wealthy family that resides in the England province known as Westphalia. While there, he encounters two people who will have a greater impact on his beliefs, goals, and determination than anybody else in his life would. One is Professor Pangloss who is renowned philosopher during that time period...

WAR AND PEACE
WAR AND PEACE Leo Tolstoy delves into his masterpiece with several different themes that ultimately interlock to reveal life as the true meaning of the book. A master of technical devices, he frequently used the mental and psychological thoughts of his characters to foreshadow upcoming events, thus helping to build suspense and climax through internal actions rather than by external actions. This difficult achievement can be found in the mental progression of Pierre Bezukhov and...