Essays Tagged: "bleak"

Portrayal of Life in India in Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan

In Malgudi Days, although R.K. Narayan seems to present us with a bleak portrayal of India where life is very hard and there is very little human happiness, he means ...

(3 pages) 59 0 2.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

"Living with the man" Speaks of the instability due to Saddam Hussein

ng to leave as theyrealize how power can corrupt a man. If Hussein stays in power, the future looks bleakfor the Gulf region.Iraq used to be a prosperous country. Oil was the main source of income for ...

(6 pages) 60 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Middle Eastern History

Daniel Hoffman says of the House of Usher: »It is no house at all, but a profound and intricate metaphor of the self.« Discuss.

rily in the narrator's descriptions of the house and of Roderick, which are strikingly similar. The bleak, discoloured walls can be compared to the "ghastly pallor of [Roderick's] skin" (Poe 1994, p.8 ...

(2 pages) 144 2 3.9 Sep/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

TITLE- EASY RIDER This essay looks at the use of music in the film Easy Rider and how the film used pop music to guide and infulence the story.

It was made in the year of the Woodstock concert, but the tone of the film is remarkably tragic and bleak, perhaps aiming to reflect the collapse of the idealistic 60s.The journey by two self-righteou ...

(3 pages) 86 0 3.4 Oct/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Love and sex in Geoge Orwell's novel 1984

George Orwell's novel 1984 explores intimate human relationships in a bleak futuristic society as experienced by protagonist Winston Smith. Since there are few bonds stro ...

(4 pages) 71 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Growth Through Oppression

In Richard Wright's autobiographical novel, Black Boy, the south is depicted as a bleak place where Wright is exposed to constant oppression and suffering. Critics have said that Wri ... socially, and psychologically.The picture of the south that Wright shows the reader is unimaginably bleak. Many critics feel that the picture is too unbelievable (CLC, Vol. 21). The stories seem too h ...

(4 pages) 41 0 4.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Assess the Significance of the question of Parliamentary Reform in the Careers of Gladstone and Disraeli 1865-68?

The 1850's were a rather bleak period concerning parliamentary reform. A number of factors contributed to the continual failu ...

(8 pages) 48 0 3.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"Of Mice and Men": Naturalism

hieve their goals they worked so hard to get. He wanted the characters to have foul mouths and have bleak views of what life really is. As said from the genre paper of naturalism "Characters in natura ...

(3 pages) 44 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Great Gatsby Analysis

before. Society was shocked by the horrors of war and their once bright hopes for the future became bleak. Unable to bear this unpleasant vision of the future, the American people looked to return to ...

(3 pages) 48 0 3.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Oliver Twist: describe the basic traits of a central character and explain how society has shaped these traits.

was very difficult to break through the barriers of social class and better oneself. Because of his bleak childhood, Dickens was one of the few writers of his day who could express the horrors of soci ...

(5 pages) 67 0 3.5 Feb/2003

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

Edgar Allen Poe and his life, it is 268 words.

an Poe uses horror and gloomy moods throughout all of his poems. Horror, revulsion, depressing, and bleak are words that can describe the mood of the poems "Annabel Lee" and "For Annie". In the Poem " ...

(1 pages) 31 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Westward Expansion. Talks about people moving west and dealing what Natvies and the harsh weather.

rican history is often glamorized and full of stereotypes. The reality of the west was in fact very bleak, where the hero often lost and the role of the innocent was played by the so-called "savage In ... rican history is often glamorized and full of stereotypes. The reality of the west was in fact very bleak, where the hero often lost and the role of the innocent was played by the so-called "savage In ...

(4 pages) 142 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The House of Usher

the book and never stops changing until the book is over.The atmosphere of the book starts off very bleak in the very beginning. When Roderick approaches the house, you can sense how evil and unsafe t ... the scene before me--upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain--upon the bleak walls--upon the vacant eye-like windows--upon a few rank sedges--and upon a few white trunks o ...

(3 pages) 42 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Auteur" or directorial style of David Fincher.

od, or set up a climactic event. In the case of Se7en, the general feeling of the city of is one of bleak despair, which is heightened greatly by the never-relenting rain. Rain beats down on the two p ...

(5 pages) 108 0 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

This is a leadership paper on Abigail Adams.

Revolutionary War he took on the role of commanding the continental army; when things were looking bleak his determination led him to make a decision to lead a surprise attack, which was a major turn ...

(7 pages) 131 1 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

If William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is a bleak nihilistic play or a hopeful one. This is a very informative well written essay.

King Lear: Is Lear a bleak, nihilistic play, or a hopeful one?The play King Lear can easily be portrayed as one that is b ... in order to give hope. This is the plays primary message. Although the play King Lear seems like a bleak nihilistic play it is actually one that can teach us about hope and loyalty.Throughout the pla ... s always hope no matter how bad a situation.The play of King Lear, could easily be interpreted as a bleak nihilistic play because of all the betrayal and malice that many of the characters show, but t ...

(3 pages) 52 2 4.7 Aug/2003

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

"Wuthering Heights" by Heathcliff and Catherine.

s certain universal psychological truths humans are too afraid to state. Heathcliff and Catherine's bleak backgrounds evolve respectively into shady personalities and mistaken life paths, but in the e ...

(5 pages) 35 0 1.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Tone of Chopin's "The Story of an Hour".

Chopin uses contrasts sharply with the supposed mood of the story. Death is usually marked by dark, bleak images. However these are not the images that Chopin uses. Instead she describes trees "aquive ...

(2 pages) 127 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

What it takes to succeed in today's job market.

ary. They are motivation, personality, and determination.Although the job market is very dismal and bleak, there are numerous top payingjobs available; however, because of the high percentage of appli ...

(1 pages) 61 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Example of a commentary on the grapes of wrath.

tractors, which cause people to lose their affection for the land. This belief is manifested in his bleak imagery, his diction, and in his parallelism.Steinbeck's use of bleak and unpleasant imagery t ... gy harms the land. To conclude, in these three paragraphs, Steinbeck expresses his opinion with his bleak imagery, his diction, and in his parallelism.

(3 pages) 36 0 2.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors