English Essays

Louse Hunting
Louse Hunting In Isaac Rosenberg’s poem “Louse Hunting,” a motley collection of World War I soldiers rise from their beds one night to wage battle-against the insects that dwell on their persons and in their uniforms. After months of serving on the front lines, living and fighting in the squalor of the trenches, these men have become infested with lice. How do the meanings of the words in the phrase “verminous brood” (line 11) demonstrate how head lice endan...

Love Is a Beautiful Thing and Then Your Friends Stab You
Love Is a Beautiful Thing and Then Your Friends Stab You The word love has thousands of meaning but in the end it can mean only one thing. Now over the years the word love had totally lost it’s meaning, but that’s not important to this essay. We are looking back at a time when love was a word that you didn’t throw around. When love still had meaning. When togas were still in style. The word love is repeated in many forms throughout the play Julius Caesar. Unlike the way t...

Love Poetry
Love Poetry By closely examining at least three poems, explain in detail the type of love which is being portrayed in each. Many poems that are written are to do with love. If one read or wrote a poem to his or her lover it would be seen to be romantic. Poems are often told as stories like in “The Flea” by John Donne which tells us of a man desperately trying to persuade the girl to sleep with him or in “Porphyria’s Lover” we learn that the love...

Love in great expectations
Love in great expectations Of the major themes from Charles Dickens novel “Great Expectations” to be discussed as to their importance concerning its structure, I have selected love in the context of human relationships, isolation and finally redemption. The loneliness isolation brings can only be redeemed by the loving associate of our fellow man, but this is a two-way thing. “Had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed orde...

Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven The rise of Ludwig van Beethoven into the ranks of history’s greatest composers was paralleled by and in some ways a consequence of his own personal tragedy and despair. Beginning in the late 1790’s, the increasing buzzing and humming in his ears sent Beethoven into a panic, searching for a cure from doctor to doctor. By October 1802 he had written the Heiligenstadt Testament confessing the certainty of his growing deafness, his consequent despai...

Luigi Pirandello War
Luigi Pirandello War “War,” written by Luigi Pirandello, is a short story focusing on the tragic repercussions that World War I had on thousands of families. This short story is set on a train and involves four different families who discover the cruel reality of losing a loved one by listening to a traveling companion’s own grief about the war and the effect it has on him. It is suggested that Pirandello uses his literary works to reflect the bitterness of s...

Lysistrata
Lysistrata Aristophanes was a “craft” comedy poet in the fourth century B.C. during the time of the Peloponnesian War. Aristophanes’ usual style was to be too satirical, and suggesting the outlandish. He shows little mercy when mocking Socrates and his “new-fangled ideas” which were most likely designed to destroy the cohesiveness of society and lead to anarchy, in his play The Clouds. The most absurd and humorous of AristophanesR...

MacBeth Tragic Hero 1
MacBeth - Tragic Hero The character of Macbeth is a classic example of a Shakespearean tragic hero. There are many factors which contribute to the degeneration of Macbeth of which three will be discussed. The three points which contribute greatly to Macbeth’s degeneration are the prophecy which was told to him by the witches, how Lady Macbeth influenced and manipulated Macbeth’s judgment, and finally Macbeth’s long time ambition which drove his desire to be kin...

Language shit
Language shit The Present Situation. At the present moment the island of Krivalia is linguistically divided into two halves, due to its history. In East Krivalia, because of French colonial rule, the official language used in administration, in issues of law, and in education, is French. West Krivalia, however, once was annexed to the ‘Crown’ of Britain, and so with the exception of primary education, (up until the final year) and evangelical work by the missiona...

Larkin
Larkin Othello Essay In the play Othello, the very evil and conniving character Iago deceives the main characters. He prays mostly on the main character Othello. Othello is a black general who is married to a white woman named Desdemona. In the beginning of the play Othello promotes a man named Cassio to be his right hand man in his army. Iago, thinking that he was going to get the promotion, is furious by this and swears revenge on Othello. In his revenge he uses many people. O...

Leadership in lord of the flies
Leadership in lord of the flies Comparison of Leaders Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding is able to touch on the many aspects of our civilization through the various characters he creates. Leadership plays a very important role in the novel as it does in real life because the characters need to feel some sense of security in order for them to survive. The two main leaders in the story, through their similar and different leadership characteristics and obje...

Les Miserable
Les Miserable In Les Miserables, Victor Hugo portrays human nature in a neutral state. Humans are born with neither good nor bad instincts, but rather society affects our actions and thoughts. Hugo portrays the neutral state of mind through Jean Valjean and Cosette. The two extremes of good and evil are represented through Thénardier and the bishop. Good and evil coexists in the society and affects Valjean and Cosette. It is the two extremes of good and evil that dictate the li...

Les Miserables
Les Miserables Set in 19th century France, Victor Hugo’s historical novel, Les Miserables, portrays the protagonist, Jean Valjean, in his struggle with his past. Even in the face of societal condemnation, he sacrifices himself repeatedly for his loved ones as well for his moral and political convictions. Throughout the novel, Jean must redeem his character proving his ability to be trustworthy, selfless, and loyal. Throughout this novel, Jean Valjean proves to himself and ...

Lessons of Sula
Lessons of Sula In their life, at one point or another, people deny to themselves and others what they really feel and what really happened. Some people go on living their entire lives denying their true emotions. In Toni Morrison’s novel Sula, characters constantly denied their feelings and their actions. Sula Peace, her best friend Nel Wright, and Nel’s mother do not listen to their feelings and hide from their true emotions. Sula Peace is one of the protagonists of the no...

Life in Vain is no Life At All
Life in Vain is no Life At All Life in Vain is no Life At All Often in life personal flaws can be projected to seem as other’s, when in fact it is one’s own traits being viewed from the third person. One of the easiest traits to recognize in others is pride. Pride is a very important motivator in life. It propels us to be the best and conditions us to take the blame for the worst. As we see in Thomas Hardy’s novel, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, the pride of one young wom...

Life of James McBride
Life of James McBride “The Life of James McBride” In the book, The Color of Water, by James McBride, a young colored man deals with growing up and having a white mother. James McBride always realized that his mother was different from his friends mothers, but he never understood why. He would always ask his mother why she was different but she would just reply that all people are the same. He never knew anything about the background of his mother because she never talke...

Life of Oedipus
Life of Oedipus Sophocles’ “Oedipus the King” is a tragic play which discusses the tragic discovery of Oedipus that he has killed his father and married his mother. The story of Oedipus was well known to the athenian’s. Oedipus is the embodiement of the perfect Athenian. He is self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed. Ironically these are the very traits which bring about his tragic discovery. Oedipus gained the rule of Thebes by answering the riddl...

Light in August by Faulkner
Light in August by Faulkner “…a man’s future is inherent in that man…” -Faulkner Faulkner’s Light in August is a metaphor. In fact it is many metaphors, almost infinitely many. It is a jumble of allusions, themes, portraits, all of them uniquely important, many of them totally unrelated. In fact no 20th century writer has even approached the sheer quantity of symbolism Faulkner packed into every page, with, perhaps, the exception of ...

Light in August by William Faulkner
Light in August by William Faulkner In the novel by William Faulkner, “Light in August” there is alienation in the novel. The alienation occurs with Joe Christmas. He is a stranger that comes into the town of Jefferson with a unkonwn past. Prior to his arrival, he went under the name of Lucas Burch. Whne Joe Christmas arrives at Jefferson, he alienates himeself from almost everybody for about 2 years. His past has taught him to do so, with all the bad things that has hapened...

Like Water for Chocolate forbiden love
Like Water for Chocolate - forbiden love Like Water for Chocolate Love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. In Like Water for Chocolate many of the main characters have had experiences with lost love and these experiences have shaped their lives in different ways. Mama Elena, Nacha, and Dr. Brown are each faced with the predicament of lost love and they have each dealt with their emotions differently. Mama Elena fell in love when she was young and married. She ...

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth is commonly regarded as the vanguard poet of the Romantic movement in British literature. The son of a wealthy Cumberland attorney, his birth followed the dawn of the English Industrial Revolution. Afforded an education not uncommon of the British bourgeoisie, Wordsworth attended St. John’s College, Cambridge, studying literature and rhetoric, prior to the advent of the French Revolution. ...

Literary Analysis of M Butterfly
Literary Analysis of M Butterfly In the short play and film adaptation of M Butterfly, David Henry Hwang allows his readers and audience to identify several bilateral misperceptions that overshadow the cultural and political differences between a proclaimed feminine Orient and a foreign devilish West. “M Butterfly” underscores the devaluation of women in general by Western culture, communism and espionage in China during the Vietnam War era, and is also synonymous w...

Literature Discussion Groups
Literature Discussion Groups Literature discussion groups play an important role in a whole language classroom. They allow students to actively participate and gives them an opportunity to project their won views to others members of the class. The discussion groups that we participated in generated a lot of thoughtful participating, as well as providing new insights to the book that we may not have gotten on our own. The book, in particular, revealed a lot of the major issue...

Living in America Compared to Living in Pakistan
Living in America Compared to Living in Pakistan Living in America Compared to Living in Pakistan There are changes in a person’s life, but later you realize that it was for the best. I remember living in Pakistan until I was five years old. When I was five years old, we moved to the United States with my family. It was a drastic change in our lives. It was different living in America, than Pakistan. It took time to get adapted to life here. Living in Pakistan is muc...

Lolita
Lolita Nabokov’s Lolita is a book that deals with obsessive lust and bloody violence, the real horrors of which are often masked by the beautiful, clever language of the novel. Indeed, Humbert’s early job as a perfume salesman mimics and evokes this masking and sweetening aspect of language. Sudden, horrible death occurs frequently in Lolita, but the book is better served if we study it as an experiment in language and the way words are used to treat the book&#...