Essays Tagged: "desolation"

"The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Al's driveway. Afterthat, Al was forced to pay a 5,000 dollar fee to drive in his driveway. Just asdesolation arose from the greed for land between Marcy and Al, the same hashappened with man through ... rtrayed with a passion. Man's lust withimperialism leads to destruction.Man's greed for land causes desolation. In the begginning, a firstexpedition is sent to Mars to try to colonize it. This plan is ...

(3 pages) 38 0 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Allan Poe

ry connects plot and setting so that theyseem one. From the first sentence to the last, the mood of desolation and impending doom neverleaves. Poe used the principal of analogy very effectively in Hou ...

(4 pages) 118 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Modern Writing - This essay describes how modern authors such as Ernest Hemmingway, Robert Frost, and Anne Sexton. This essay describes how dark and depressing modern writing can be.

life fill the lines of modernist poems. Modernists writing often describe scenes of loneliness and desolation. The souls of modern writers are empty and separate from the rest of the world. They rare ... .The miserable verses of modernist poets put into words the most depressing emotions of loneliness, desolation, and emptiness a soul could feel. When writing these passages, the poets poured out their ...

(2 pages) 98 1 3.4 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats. Women are not embraced as valued others but as a narcissistic projection of the lover's self.

and her role in the piece.The poem introduces us to Madeline after a brief description of the cold desolation of the outside that follows into the Beadsman's chambers, which is just as cold and joyle ...

(5 pages) 81 1 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Poverty Comes In All Types & Exists In All Forms: "Of Men And Mice" by John Steinbeck.

Loneliness is a prime example of poverty [obviously]. It is described as a feeling of bleakness and desolation. John Steinbeck's story, Of Men And Mice, is a perfect story about loneliness and abandon ...

(7 pages) 41 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Heart of Darkness.

ver Congo.He eventually arrives at the Company's Outer Station in the Congo.He witnesses a scene of desolation, waste, brutality and chaos.While the local natives suffer under the yoke of colonialism, ...

(36 pages) 221 1 2.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Bound to Be Free.

hts Movement here in our country, and the civil wars in other countries, we have all seen the fear, desolation, desperation, disbelief, confusion... every emotion on the faces of the people in our cou ...

(1 pages) 40 0 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe

k wall. The scene is attempted to be reorganised into a double. Doubling happens in order to escape desolation.Family: Metions of questions and problems to do with descent and generation. Hint of ince ...

(2 pages) 118 2 3.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

A brief biography of Rudyard Kipling

ands on. Later on, Kipling tells of the horrible six years he and his sister spent in the "house of desolation". The story is called "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep".In 1877 Kipling's mother came from India to ...

(2 pages) 34 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Faith in religion solves Hansel & Gretel's problem.

help to a higher being comes from desperate moments a person's life.T.S. 2: Because of the state of desolation that a person puts themselves in, they start on a life changing voyage that will be helpe ...

(3 pages) 38 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

"The Story of an hour" by Kate Chopin show the readers the meanings of life and death

keeps whispering . The death of her husband brings her the exhilaration of freedom rather than the desolation of loneliness. However, in its turn, Mrs. Mallard's death also puts an end to her short h ...

(2 pages) 90 1 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Elements of a Good Horror Story as Exemplified in Frankenstein.

a human being from dead matter. I also believe a good horror story includes some type of murder or desolation, which needs to be presented in a comprehensive manner. If a book describes these terribl ...

(2 pages) 44 1 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Analyzation of a quote from the novel Night by Elie Weisel.

ted into the abandoned ghetto, they had to use what the others had left behind. There is a sense of desolation and emptiness in the quote, especially when the quote states, "Doors and windows gaped in ...

(1 pages) 33 1 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Grief

nothing moving inside or out. Then I think how much I miss you. Then I feel fear, pain, loneliness, desolation. Then I cry until I am too numbed to feel. Interesting pastime.' (Peter McWillians, How t ...

(2 pages) 110 2 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Passage of the storm in King Lear Act III

d.Shakespeare's use of both storm and animal imagery helps to develop the feeling of the unresolved desolation that Lear is suffering. As Lear roams about a desolate heath, a dreadful storm, powerfull ...

(4 pages) 36 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An Analysis of the Destruction of War Portrayed in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

From the dismantling of hopes and dreams to the desolation of bodies and battlefields, the idea of the destruction of way appears often in the novel ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

(POETRY)"just a little longer"

Just a little longerDesolation,Wide open space,Between the trees and me,Emptiness and me,Confusion and decisions,Feeling ...

(1 pages) 50 4 3.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

The disabled Community

and seems to shun those that can't fit the mold, many people's shortcomings can lead them to total desolation. Fortunately, many of the people that we would call disabled, cope with a life among the ...

(4 pages) 48 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

A letter to a friend preparing for their exam on TS Eliot for their critical study. The letter details my feelings about his issues and concerns.

n conditions that Eliot represents are trivial, struggle, pessimism, depersonalisation, despair and desolation. His views of women are misogynistic and being involved in sordid activities.Eliot's poem ...

(5 pages) 33 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Tin Flute" and "Mercy Among the Children"

ty, in Richards' Mercy Among the Children. Lyle, the eldest boy, is conflicted between his family's desolation and his pursuit of economic power. While Florentine's hopes and wishes conceal the harsh ...

(6 pages) 18 0 5.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American