Essays Tagged: "ambivalence"

The Oedipus Complex

ay be a source of adult personality disorder when unresolved. It is a pattern of profound emotional ambivalence, a troublesome mixture of love and hate.The Oedipus Complex occurs during the phallic st ...

(8 pages) 217 1 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Hester in The Scarlet Letter

el Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter, Hester's attitudes toward her adultery are ambivalent. This ambivalence is shown by breaking the book into three different parts. In each part her attitudes cha ...

(4 pages) 160 5 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

MLK. Jr, Malcolm X VS. B.T. Washington, Du Bois

n freedom from slavery, they were abandoned and were forced to fight for themselves. There was much ambivalence among blacks in regard to how they would go about achieving civil rights. During the end ...

(4 pages) 113 0 4.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

This essay is about the Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure. He is described as the old fantastical Duke of dark corners.

of power in Vienna. Despite these two polar opposites the character is nethertheless a character of ambivalence. Contradiction is one of the main themes of the play, as is appearance versus reality, l ...

(6 pages) 88 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.

the violence of the patriots far more than he did the abuses of aristocrats like Monseigneur. This ambivalence is the reason that Dickens is so sketchy on actual dates and events of the Revolution. R ...

(6 pages) 179 2 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

Jane Austen's Use of Irony in Pride and Prejudice.

eaning and on a deeper profounder meaning which lies behind the obvious.The tension created by this ambivalence can be and has been put to a variety of uses. Ironies abound in Shakespeare, so do they ...

(3 pages) 85 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

A Historical, Moral,and Religious Exmination of Physician Assisted Suicide

hey could also ignore alternative solutions. The physician may also ignore or misunderstand patient ambivalence, and even put to death patients who have not requested it What is the historical backgro ...

(1 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Phyician Assisted Suicide. Religious, Moral, Economic, and Historical aspects concerning Physician Assisted suicide.

hey could also ignore alternative solutions. The physician may also ignore or misunderstand patient ambivalence, and even put to death patients who have not requested it What is the historical backgro ... hey could also ignore alternative solutions. The physician may also ignore or misunderstand patient ambivalence, and even put to death patients who have not requested it (Foley,235). Furthermore, if l ...

(10 pages) 209 0 0.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Analysis of the poem "Afterwards" by Thomas Hardy

is death. It centre's around the idea of 'noticing things,' showing the narrators precision and the ambivalence of his neighbours. Hardy gets this across by the techniques that he uses, and the detail ...

(5 pages) 23 1 4.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Susanna Moodie - the distraught pioneer. Roughing It in the Bush.

l attitudes is sure to bring out duality.I would like to focus on the reason of Moodie's continuous ambivalence, which I believe to be her never reconciled Romanticism, primarily in her book Roughing ... hey merely begin to cooperate by the end of the five-year life in the backwoods of Canada. Moodie's ambivalence and constant battle for balance stand on a solid ground; she understands her situation i ...

(5 pages) 21 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Virtuous and Vixenish Dichotomy in Literature - How the composers of Vanity Fair, The Taming of the Shrew and Sense and Sensibility felt about the dichotomy between good and bad women

exts, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair stands out as the strongest example of a composer's ambivalence towards their female characters. In Vanity Fair, Thackeray often remarks about his femal ...

(5 pages) 20 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Land Art.

cal attacks on the institution that contributed to it, were reflected in the art world's increasing ambivalence towards its own institutional traditions--that is, the long-standing bourgeois paradigm ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.4 Oct/2005

Subjects: Art Essays

Explaining the Paradox of American Human Rights Policy.

record of unilateral (even often multilateral) action abroad to promote human rights. The resulting ambivalence on the part of the US is now a striking exception among Western democracies and has been ... strongly supports a second category of explanation, comprising those that attribute the exceptional ambivalence and unilateralism of the U.S. human rights policy to the instrumental calculation of Ame ...

(19 pages) 134 0 3.3 Oct/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

'The Last September is about the ambivalence of the Anglo-Irish as Ireland was about to become an independent state.' Discuss.

OutlineIn this paper I will attempt to define why the Anglo-Irish appeared to have such ambivalence towards the changes going on in the country around them. I will try to show that they di ... politics, are never simple in Ireland. The Last September is forensically acute in its depiction of ambivalences that history, and the English, generally miss (Glendinning, 1998).Elizabeth Bowen's upb ... ted the English values within them. As Bowen herself wrote 'This may have come from the Anglo-Irish ambivalence to all things English, a blend of impatience and evasiveness, a reluctance to be pinned ...

(13 pages) 38 0 2.5 Dec/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Marriage: The American Perspective

The current state of marriage in the American society has brought a certain amount of ambivalence to its definition. Perhaps, marriage may be regarded as a social institution, a mutual a ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.7 Feb/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Machiavelli's "The Prince": This paper was written to summarize "The Prince" by Machiavelli and to pull the deeper meanings out of it. We also had to compare it to previous literature in its genre.

area in the feelings of people for the state. One of the only times in which Machiavelli allows for ambivalence towards the state is under new principality that is gained through armed seizure where t ...

(4 pages) 37 0 0.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The Interpretation of Indirect Utterances

of indirect utterances .- Two types of indirectness are addressed here in this study :1- Pragmatic Ambivalence .2- Implicature .1- Pragmatic Ambivalence- Pragmatic Ambivalence, as Thomas ( 1995 ) arg ... e either a straightforward question or a request to the hearer to answer the phone. Thus, Pragmatic Ambivalence is used when the speaker does not " make clear precisely which range of related illocuti ...

(3 pages) 20 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

Othello - Matrimonial Duty

Shakespeare's Ambivalence on Matrimonial Duty Shakespeare's Othello contributes towards the matrimonial duties eac ... his hatred towards his wife when she has a conversation with Othello. The two of them Shakespeare's Ambivalence on Matrimonial DutyPage 1 of 4 finally conclude that Iago is to be blamed for all chaos ... n, he attends her house for dinner and other form of entertainment whenever he wishes.Shakespeare's Ambivalence on Matrimonial DutyPage 2 of 4 Another character within the play that also mistreats his ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Right Vs. Wrong

e vii, lines 1-28, Shakespeare uses figurative language, diction, and structure to reveal Macbeth's ambivalence toward the killing of Duncan. Shakespeare conveys Macbeth's ambivalence through t ...

(3 pages) 10 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

that the old man is an angel, the religious community does not believe it. The main reason for this ambivalence is "his [the angel's] pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather" (261). Th ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers