English Essays

Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston For many of the writers discussed in class, family stories are a guide to live by. The family stories told, give an outline of morals as well as a way to stay close to their true family. Both Cofer and Stone show how family stories give them a very strong form of acceptance. Acceptance is key for each of the writers because they both face the challenge of living as multicultural people in a world that tends to shame diversity. These stories are extremely...

Meanings of the Raven
Meanings of the Raven Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” employs a raven itself as a symbol of the torture, mainly the self-inflicted torture, of the narrator over his lost love, Lenore. The raven, it can be argued, is possibly a figment of the imagination of the narrator, obviously distraught over the death of Lenore. The narrator claims in the first stanza that he is weak and weary (731). He is almost napping as he hears the rapping at the door, which could quit...

Medea
Medea Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek- barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the “barbarian”, or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. Central to the whole plot is Medea’s barbarian origins and how they are related to her actions. In this paper, I am attempting to answer questions such as how Medea b...

Media Perception of The Dave Hilton Trial
Media Perception of The Dave Hilton Trial Media perception: the Dave Hilton Trial Media is described as a means of communication. The main purpose of the media is to inform the public in an accurate, comprehensive and balanced manner about events of importance. This does not always take place. The mass media has developed more and more prejudice towards certain individuals. Dave Hilton Jr., a boxer of exceptional talent and charisma, has been charged with nine-sex related crim...

Meeting Ronny
Meeting Ronny Meeting Ronny As a sixteen year old growing up in West County I had it good. I had a car, a job, and was going to school. But I wasn’t happy. I was never happy. My car wasn’t nice enough, my clothes weren’t cool enough, nothing was good enough for me. I had no idea how much I really had. Then I met Ronny. Ronny was a homeless man living in University City. When I first met him he was sitting on a faded brick planter next to Fitzes’, a restaurant on...

Men and Women
Men and Women What influences a person’s identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone’s life when they get one? A person’s identity is his own, nobody put it there and nobody can take it out. Everyone in this world has a different identity because they...

Merchant Of Venice Scene I Act I plot development
Merchant Of Venice Scene I Act I plot development ACT I - SCENE I : PLOT DEVELOPMENT The play opens in Venice. Where the title character, Antonio - the merchant of Venice, resides. He is a successful man, but is melancholy and weary for reasons he can’t explain, not even to his compatriots Salarnio and Salanio. They feel that his depression is from the stresses and worries that sprout from the shipping business, but his worries come not from these or love. The three ...

Metamorphism
Metamorphism What is reality? Every person has his or her own “reality” or truth of their existence. For some it may be nothing they expected, while others can just be successful in anything. The true reality is that regardless of what direction is taken in life, a person brings the same inner self, motivational levels and attitudes. As followers of literature we often escape our own “reality” and experience life through the imagination of the authors we ...

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka “When he lifted his head a little, he saw his vaulted brown belly, sectioned by arch-shaped ribs, to whose dome the cover, about to slide off completely, could barely cling. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, were waving helplessly before his eyes.” Gregor Samsa has gone through a metamorphosis. This change has turned Gregor into a “monstrous vermin”. The anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism, which ...

Metaphors Great Gatsby
Metaphors - Great Gatsby “That’s the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don’t care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory” -F. Scott Fitzgerald -1924 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald fingered these thoughts into his typewriter one morning in 1924, upon writing his greatest novel and one of the most acclaimed literary works of all time, The Great Gatsby...

Mice and Men
Mice and Men You Cannot Judge a Book By its Cover - Lord Chesterfield once said, “You must look into people, as well as at them.” If you apply this logic to Curley’s wife and Crooks in the book, Of Mice and Men, you will find that they are the same in many ways despite their differences in race and sex. These two unfortunate souls live in a world full of shattered dreams, discrimination, and loneliness. Langston Hughes once said, “Hold fast to dreams f...

Mice and men is pessimistic
Mice and men is pessimistic The main theme that runs throughout the novel is that of hope. Everyone on the ranch has their own personal dream that they wish to fulfil, although no one does. The main reason for this is probably that the workers do not save money, and prefer to live for the moment, and go to “cat houses” to get their fulfilment. Although this is not the case with Crooks or Curley’s wife, they can never accomplish their dream because of their skin colour and ...

Middle Passage
Middle Passage Isadora tries to change Calhoun, who is trying to get away from debtors, by paying off his debts to Papa Zeringue, a gangster-like tough guy who controlled most of the city. In exchange for the debts paid, Calhoun is forced to marry Isadora. Calhoun, who was extremely scared of Papa, left his debtors and Isadora, not wanting to change his bad habits, and boards The Republic and sets for Africa. Little did he know the horrors he would encounter on that ship? Ca...

Midnight Summers dream
Midnight Summer’s dream The story “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” tells about a group of characters that fall in love with each other. However, the whole play is all a dream. The dream also contains dreams within dreams. For example, Hermia had a dream where she fell in love with an ass, and at the end of the play Puck tells everyone that the whole deal was a dream, and that none of this really happened in real life. The title describes the story for it must...

Minor Business
Minor Business The literature combines evidence of empirical and anecdotal origin as well as incorporating basic knowledge issues with which the successful entrepreneur must be familiar, including the importance of planning, setting goals, producing an accurate and useable business plan and finding funding for the new venture. Some entrepreneurs make millions; most do not. The entrepreneur can count on long hours, hard work and the satisfaction of achievement. Everyone wants to ...

Macbeth A Man Whose Ambition Out Weighed His Conscience
Macbeth A Man Whose Ambition Out Weighed His Conscience Macbeth: A Man Whose Ambition Out-Weighed His Conscience Macbeth’s struggle with evil was a long and somewhat deeper story. Shakespeare writes Macbeth so the reader has to think about why Macbeth did what he did and how much of what he did was him and how much were outside influences. The reader has to see that Macbeth was taken over by greed and or what could be called ambition. Macbeth’s struggle was also a test of ...

Macbeth A tragic hero
Macbeth - A tragic hero During the Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare was the greatest author and drama writer. He wrote such masterpiece tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello. Perhaps the greatest of them all is the story of Macbeth. In the play, the first Thane of Cawdor, Duncan, Banquo, Lady Macbeth, and Macbeth all are considered to have flaws which to a greater or lesser degree is the cause of their downfall. In the second scene of the play you learn that Sc...

Macbeth Essay
Macbeth Essay In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth, is a brave and loyal subject to the King of Scotland, but as the play progresses, his character begins to change drastically. Evil and unnatural powers, as well as his own passion to become king, take over his better half and eventually lead to his downfall. The three main factors that intertwine with one another that contribute to Macbeth’s tragic end are the prophecies told by the three witches,...

Macbeth Flaw in his character
Macbeth - Flaw in his character Everyone who is mortal has at least one flaw. Some are more serious than others. For example, some people have addictions to gambling, while other people can’t remember to put the milk away after they use it. After a while though, a person’s flaws come back to haunt them. The tragedy MacBeth is no exception to this. In it, many of the character’s die. And the reason is that they have a flaw, that would eventually lead to their do...

Macbeth and A Christmas Carol
Macbeth and A Christmas Carol William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol parallel each other on many levels. Macbeth is a play that describes the rise and fall of a ruler who believes nothing can harm him, so the lead character, cleverly called Macbeth, attains power whenever possible, not caring who he hurts or what he destroys in the process. A Christmas Carol is also about the rise and fall of a town leader, the richest man in t...

Macbeth building suspense in act2
Macbeth building suspense in act2 Shakespeare uses many images and situations in order to build suspense. Act II is the act that the murder of the king takes place because of this the suspense that is built in this act is particularly important. In scene one,(lines 33-61) the dagger soliloquy builds suspense while Macbeth is waiting for the time to come when he is going to kill the king. One of the ways that he builds suspense in this soliloquy is by giving the audience the f...

Macbeth the climax in Act 3
Macbeth the climax in Act 3 Act III of Macbeth contains the climax of the play. Therefore the challenge of holding onto the interest of the audience is presented. However, while this may be a challenge for a lesser playwright, for a master like Shakespeare the challenge of maintaining the mood and theme is much less. The theme of the play is the downfall of Macbeth and the mood is dark and gloomy. Everything that happens, in this act especially, must maintain these ideas. ...

Macbeth themes
Macbeth themes In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Shakespeare is able to develop many major themes in the play; he uses different techniques to put emphasis on certain issues in order to help develop these themes in the story line of the play. The major themes of Macbeth are, Man vs. Evil, Man vs. Himself, and Man vs. Reality. The major techniques that Macbeth uses include foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony. In using these techniques skillfully, Shakespeare is able to develop a pl...

Machiavelli
Machiavelli It is important to understand that there are certain key factors to be kept in mind in any analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli’s most famous work, “The Prince.” Perhaps the most notable of these is the relatively simple fact that Machiavelli was not presenting his story from a malicious viewpoint but from his beliefs regarding the true nature of effective and powerful leadership. Regardless of the fact that even his name has come to be equated with cunning ...

Madame bovary
Madame bovary MADAME BOVARY————- The story starts as we see Charles Bovary entering a new school in the town of Rouen in France. People laugh at him because he isn’t sure what to do and how to act. He is the son of a doting mother and a very strict father. Charles isn’t sure what to do with his life and therefore does as his mother advices him; to go to medical school. He fails at first because he didn’t work for it in cla...