Essays Tagged: "despair"

Animal Farm

enovel Animal Farm.Throughout Orwell's early novels, democratic socialism kept the author from totaldespair of all humans(Greenblatt 104). After his better experience in the Spanish Civil Warand the s ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

King Lear

t I Scene I, the first glimmer of hope is revealed in the play at a time of madness, corruption and despair. In this scene, King Lear has created an environment of competition that promotes false flat ... t that Edmund tricked Gloucester to begin with, and that delusion is what lead Edgar to his initial despair. Thus a sense of rebirth and renewal is seen in this scene, as Gloucester believes in the mi ...

(9 pages) 91 0 5.0 Nov/1995

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

Hamlet and Gertrude, love or hate

han her former brother-in-law, Claudius.Unable to return to the university due to his over whelming despair, Hamlet is trapped by his loving parents and not allowed to leave Denmark until certified we ...

(4 pages) 97 0 4.4 Jan/1996

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

Is Hamlet Mad?

r dispelling each argument and come to my own conclusion.Hamlet is obviously experiencing grief and despair right from the beginning of the novel, with the death of his father and his uncle's seizure ...

(8 pages) 186 0 4.5 Nov/1996

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

Jobs

ofthe Lord one may ask? The major themes in the book describe the ways Job deals withsuffering and despair the Lord handed him. How one deals with despair and suffering iswhat makes a person who he o ... s will inherit it; andthose who love his name will dwell there." God does not intentionally inflict despair andheartache on his believers for no reason at all. I think the despair we experience, and h ...

(3 pages) 100 1 3.6 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Always and Forever. A love poem.

ything I am and because of it,I will always love you,For you have given it to me.In a world full of despair,You've given me hope,A dream, a desire for something more,Something better,For this you will ...

(1 pages) 118 1 5.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

War poems

uses two words 'war' and 'kind' that are dissimilar. Crane then highlights acts of destruction and despair with the 'kindness' of war. He notes that a child should not weep when his father was killed ...

(2 pages) 84 1 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Drug and Clinical Treatments for Bipolar Disorder

d depressive episodes. The depressive episodes are characterized by intense feelings of sadness and despair that can become feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Some of the symptoms of a depress ...

(8 pages) 225 1 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Critical analysis of "Leningrad Cemetery" written by Sharon Olds. Essay uses college-level literary terms.

ed." Sharon Olds paints dramatic pictures, using powerful imagery that forces the reader to see the despair of having to use "coffin wood for fuel." The poem shows the reader the "dead," the casualtie ... for fear of losing its unemotional state. The voice fails at remaining objective, showing the bleak despair of having to cart the "dead" upon a "child's sled," in the "sub-zero air." The "dead" not on ...

(3 pages) 107 0 3.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

'Misery' by Antov Chekhov

In the story 'Misery' by Antov Chekhov, I identified despair and misery as a theme. The surroundings amplify the sentiment of the main character, Iona Po ...

(3 pages) 71 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Alanis Morissette's "Isn't it Ironic"

er chart-rocking songs and 'Ironic' is no exception. The song has an overall feel of loneliness and despair to accompany the lyrics. You can almost see her singing this song is some lonely bar for los ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Your Beauty, My Despair in "London" by William Blake

Your Beauty, My DespairThe statement that "Beauty is truth; truth , beauty" does not hold to be a correct implicatio ... But what I do take from Keats passage is the urge to turn to my brother or sister in any moment of despair, no matter how life is treating them and say "it will be all right". Maybe this is the true ...

(3 pages) 91 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

the gothic setting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

ery. The setting can bring aboutthese feelings of short-lived happiness, loneliness, isolation, and despair.Shelly's writing shows how the varied and dramatic settings ofFrankenstein can create the at ... between me and my enemy" (Shelly 191). Because of this gothicsetting amid the Artic ice floes, the despair hits both Frankenstein andthe reader.So Frankenstein, Mary Shelly's strange and disturbing t ...

(3 pages) 160 0 3.4 Feb/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A critical approach to "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)

al struggle between the "privileged" and the "underprivileged" classes. Time after time emotions of despair surface from both the protagonist and the antagonist involved in the story.This story outlin ... splayed by a rough, sour character and exemplified when he burns his landlord's barn down. He feels despair and loss, and inflicts damage to whomever he happens to be working for.Although the story ce ...

(3 pages) 267 2 4.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Editorial Concealed. Robert Wright, both reporter and commentator in Time Magazine. Includes review of his article "The evolution of despair"

to provide them with the latest news from the scientific community. After reading The Evolution of Despair, an article written by Wright, I came under the impression that he is both reporter and comm ... for concealing an editorial within a scientific piece?Works Cited:Wright, Robert. 'The Evolution of Despair' Time Magazine Vol. 146 No. 9 28 Aug. 1996: 1-4 (Full article is included for the use of cit ...

(3 pages) 66 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown-Irony, Symbolism, and Imagery

ner spiritual conflict between good and evil as he takes a journey which will lead him to a life of despair because of the temptations he succumbs to.Symbolism and Irony in "Young Goodman Brown"...

(8 pages) 513 3 4.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ozymandias by Percy B. Shelley

destal these words appear:'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 10Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'Nothing beside remains. Round the decayOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bareThe lone a ... cstatues of him found throughout Egypt. These 'works' would certainly havemade some 'Mighty' people despair -- before time took away the threat.The Ramesseum contains the shattered statue that Shelley ...

(3 pages) 192 0 4.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Oh the Sorrow

th little, if any, faith in powers above or intheir own kind, leaving them to linger in feelings of despair and that life is anabsurd joke. From these times grew the Theater of Absurd. Here they attem ... e an intriguing and outstanding job of exploiting the details of imageryand dialogue to express his despairing and cynical interpretation of the world.Because of his emphasis upon the 'trifles' of the ...

(3 pages) 69 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Kurt Vonnegut's Portrayal of Society in "Breakfast of Champions"

ampions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prepackaged, robotic society, andan American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy.I. IntroductionII. Social problemsA. RacismB. Commercialism and materiali ... ions, Kurt Vonnegut portrays a prefabricated, unfeeling societyand an American culture plagued with despair, greed, and apathy.The issue of society's flaws is a major concern of Breakfast of Champions ...

(8 pages) 75 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Twentieth Century Music and It's Reflection of History

0s offered relaxation to the battered soul. Popular songs of the time brought the listener into the despair of the times apparent in songs, such as 'Stardust', 'Solitude', and 'Blue Lovebirds Die Alon ...

(8 pages) 240 0 4.1 May/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers