English Essays

The Great Gatsby Summary
The Great Gatsby Summary Chapter 1 “His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed. There was a touch of paternal contempt in it, even toward people he liked ­ and there were men at New Haven who had hated his guts.” -Pg. 7 fractious (adj) - unruly, quarrelsome, irritable. “Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.̶...

The Great Gatsby Symbolism
The Great Gatsby Symbolism Symbolism in The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a novel with intricate symbolism. Fitzgerald integrates symbolism into the heart of the novel so strongly that it is necessary to read the book several times to gain any level of understanding. The overtones and connotations that Fitzgerald gives to the dialogues, settings, and actions is a major reason why The Great Gatsby is one of the classics of the 20th century. ...

The Great Gatsby The American Dream
The Great Gatsby - The American Dream The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to capture its illusionary goals. This is a common them central to many novels. This dream has varying significances for different people but in The Great Gatsby, for Jay, the dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire happiness. To get this happiness Jay must reach into the past and...

The Great Gatsby The Green Light
The Great Gatsby - The Green Light The green light is the vision of his goal: to have Daisy. In a world where Gatsby could essentially obtain anything with his money, Daisy presented a challenge to him, because even she could not be purchased. But when, at last, Gatsby believes that Daisy is his, he no longer idolizes her. Now that he realizes he has her, she is no longer desirable. We come to this presumption when Gatsby states, ” Compared to the great distance that had s...

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby In today society, many people like to follow the current. They want to catch the wave. Which mean, it does not matter if things were good or bad, right or wrong, they just follow and do them without any thinking. Therefore, there are not too many people would like to be a normal, thoughtful nor neutral person. However, in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, one of the character name is Nike Carroway, he was the good and neutral narrator. It was bec...

The Harrowing of Hell Dialectic and Spectacle
The Harrowing of Hell - Dialectic and Spectacle Roland Barthes’s essay on “The World of Wrestling” draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed. Barthes’s critique — which is above all a rewriting of what was to understand what is — is useful here insofar as it may be applied back to theatre as another open-a...

The Devil and Tom Walker
The Devil and Tom Walker Steven Neale 1/18/00 “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” by Hawthorne, and The Crucible, by Arthur Miller all share similar themes and they all use different genres and forms to help express the story’s theme. The three stories all comment on Puritan beliefs and the nature of man, and they deal with the fear of the unknown and not wanting to face the truths. “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a fo...

The Diary of Anne Frank Book Report
The Diary of Anne Frank - Book Report The Diary of Anne Frank is about a girl that kept a diary while hiding from Nazi’s in Amsterdam for two years. The diary ends when the Nazi’s found her and her family. Her whole family was killed in exception for her father. She was given the journal on her thirteenth birthday. She simply summarized her life for two years in this phenomenal journal. This journal was found after she was killed. The book was published in 1947. Twenty...

The Diary of Anne Frank and Mother Night
The Diary of Anne Frank and Mother Night The Diary of Anne Frank and Mother Night illustrate a period of time when Eastern Europe faced several issues. Some of the issues encountered in The Diary of Anne Frank and Mother Night are discrimination, persecution, and war. Moreover, both of the main characters share the ideology that “people are really good at heart.” In The Dairy of Anne Frank, Anne Frank experiences stronger discrimination and persecution than Howard, the ma...

The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy The Divine Comedy is a form of poetry written by Dante Alighieri. The sin in Canto thirty four was betrayal and the punishment was being chewed up for eternity by Satan. This punishment fits the sin many ways which all is justifiable because of the magnitude of sin. The chewing punishment for eternity fits the sin of betrayal because betrayal is the worst and most deceiving sin that there is. Along with the physical punishment, there is a mental punishment of...

The Effects of Television Violence on Children
The Effects of Television Violence on Children What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many peoplesÕ living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with so...

The Eighteenth Emergency
The Eighteenth Emergency The Eighteenth Emergency A common feature throughout the novel “The Eighteenth Emergency” is Benjie suffering from nerves and anxiety over Marv after writing an unpleasant note: “His shoes seemed to stick to the sidewalk, and his legs were heavy”. He suffers also from an internal conflict after. He constantly contemplates what he should do- whether he should face his foe (Marv Hammerman) or continue running away from him whenever he sees him...

The Electric Ant by Philip K Dick
The Electric Ant by Philip K Dick In the short story The Electric Ant, Philip. K. Dick is expressing his sarcastical opinion of man in society and man’s inability to distinguish between the truth and fantasy. Using his main character’s life, Garson Poole, the author illustrates teh delusion of mankind’s freedom. This delusion is demonstrated by three components of Garson’s life: his automated reality chip, and his emotional and physical makeup as an orani...

The Elements that Establish Romeo and Juliet as a Tragedy
The Elements that Establish Romeo and Juliet as a Tragedy Shakespeare is a well known author who wrote in the 1500’s. Many of his plays are classified as tragedies. According to the Oxford dictionary of current English, a tragedy is described as a serious disaster or a sad event. In Shakespeare plays, tragedy is identified as a story that ends unhappily due to the fall of the protagonist, which is the tragic hero. For a play to be a tragedy, there must be a tragic hero. In...

The English Patient
The English Patient As followed by the big hit of Titanic’s great tragedy love story . It seems that love romantic stories are in favour to touch people’s deep feelings. The English Patient, ” however, is a great epic romance novel. It’s an extravagance of the romantic spirit, a yearning for passion. A immoral love story between one man(Almasy) and a married woman(Katharine). Also a nurse’s love and care toward his patient. Style of the no...

The Evil Within
The Evil Within The Evil Within In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding illustrates how much the human mind can endure insanity and loneliness before becoming an immoral being. Golding also shows that there is some hope through Simon and his ability to resist intimidation when faced by evils of unimaginable proportions. An example of how much the mind can take the torture and torment of the ‘darkness of man’s heart’ is Ralph. Golding characterizes Ralp...

The Evolution of Odysseus
The Evolution of Odysseus The Evolution of Odysseus Throughout the Odyssey, Homer explores the evolution of Odysseus from a young and inexperienced warrior when he leaves to fight at Troy to a mature and accomplished war hero when returns to his home at Ithaca. The slow maturation of Odysseus develops as he accomplishes physical and mental victories against women in the form of monsters, goddesses, nymphs, and mortals. Each of the women obstacles tests Odysseus’ strength as ...

The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene is an allegory, a story whose characters and events nearly all have a specific symbolic meaning. The poem’s setting is a mythical land, ruled by the Faerie Queene. Spencer sets forth the letter that this “Queene” represents his own monarch, Queen Elizabeth. In the Faerie Queene, all of the characters are meant to have a symbolic meaning in the real world. Redcrosse is the knight of Holiness. (Intro. Pg. 201 Elements of Literature) Redc...

The Feet of Oedipus
The Feet of Oedipus The Feet of Oedipus Oedipus is an excellent ruler of Thebes. He is a king, a great father, and has the respect of all the Thebans. Oedipus, however, has a lot of problems. He marries his mom, kills his dad, all the gods hate him, he is impetuous, and he is blind to the world, but it all boils down to one colossal flaw: his feet. I bet you are wondering what Oedipus’ fatal flaw has to deal with his feet. Well ,it is quite simple, they are swollen. ...

The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin’ “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is saturated with vivid imagery andabundant description, which help the reader visualize the action. Bishop’s useof imagery, narration, and tone allow the reader to visualize the fish andcreate a bond with him, a bond in which the reader has a great deal ofadmiration for the fish’s plight. The mental pictures created are, in fact, sobri...

The Fish
The Fish “The Fish” Poems to me are an expression of a person’s outlook on a particular scene or subject. By reading a poem a person can be enlightened and take an understanding of what they are actually reading. In “The Fish”, I personally was caught up in all the excitement because I know what it feels like to catch a really gigantic fish. This poem, to me, shows an outlook on nature that I have always been accustomed to. In writing poems there is a whole catego...

The Flea
The Flea Trisha Foster English 102 “The Flea” By John Donne As I read “The Flea,” lots of thoughts came running through my mind. For example, in this day and age, we do not treat sex the same way as people did at the time this poem was written. Do we think that this sexual behavior is acceptable? Should sex be taken so lightheartedly, or do we take it too seriously? Do we guard sex as if it were the Holy Grail, or the secret to life itself? These questions may b...

The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
The Fly by Katherine Mansfield Humiliation and enslavement for the sadist are simply the means to an end. However, suffering is the sadist’s trademark as there is no greater power over another than that of inflicting pain and forcing them to suffer without the benefit of self-defence. In fact, the pure pleasure in the complete domination over another is the very essence of the sadistic drive. In her short, compelling story “The Fly,” Mansfield details how a co...

The Giver by Joe Smith
The Giver by Joe Smith The story starts as Jonas, a twelve- year-old boy, who is waiting for his life assignment. When he is given his assignment, he is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls The Giver. The Giver: The Giver is the man who is the old Receiver. He is also the one who gives Jonas the memories. In the community were Jonas lives is everything is controlled, ev...

The Giver
The Giver “The Giver” This is one of the greatest books I have ever read. I have read a lot of books and this was the most extraordinary of them all. Everything they did in the story had to pretty much be done in unison, as everything had to be perfect, feelings were not a real option and responsibility was the biggest factor in the community. Although it’s very difficult to describe, the people in this community had to all follow certain rules and regulat...