Essays Tagged: "intense desire"

Analytical paper on the tragic figure of Lancelot in T.H White's "Once And Future King"

Sir Lancelot's intense desire to perform heroic deeds was brought on by his lack of confidence and insecurity. His ...

(7 pages) 30 0 3.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy

e Atlantic Conference on Aug. 14, 1941, Churchill noted about the "astonishing depth of Roosevelt's intense desire for war." But the only problem was that America thought of it was Europe's war and ne ...

(4 pages) 116 1 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"Where are you going, Where have you been" by Joyce Carol Oates vs. the Smooth Talk movie when dealing with minor characters.

ory is "Connie's scary encounter with Arnold as a dream-vision or "daymare" - one in which Connie's intense desire for total sexual experience runs headlong into her innate fear of such experience" (5 ...

(7 pages) 240 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost's "The Silken Tent" and Lady Gregory's "Broken Vows"

tween a girl and her family, which is philia love. The girl in "Broken Vows" is obsessed and has an intense desire of being together with the love of her life, which is an eros love.Both the poems use ...

(4 pages) 66 0 3.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Four Greek Definitions of Love

rom kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. 2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion ... air; the emotion of sex and romance. 3. Sexual passion, sexual intercourse, or a love affair. 4. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object. 5. An expression of one's affection. ...

(2 pages) 27 0 3.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

What is love?

ove: "A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person", "A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person," or "An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or ... object". While love in general is a positive feeling for anything that pleases us, true love is an intense, warm, healthy and happy feeling only for our peer humans. It is full of affection, devotion ...

(3 pages) 23 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

The Great Gatsby

se its destructive nature. The characters Nick, Myrtle, and Gatsby's unconsciousness of reality and intense desire to fulfill their own dreams show this concept. Those illusions that ultimately dimini ...

(3 pages) 1044 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The life of Vincent van Gough

ncent van Gogh, Amsterdam). Dark and somber, sometimes crude, these early works evidence van Gogh's intense desire to express the misery and poverty of humanity as he saw it among the miners in Belgiu ... of the region. During this period, living at Arles, he began to use the swirling brush strokes and intense yellows, greens, and blues associated with such typical works as Bedroom at Arles and Starry ...

(3 pages) 41 2 4.3 Oct/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Ambition is Responsible for Macbeth's Actions

lated to his own ambition it is necessary to define the components of ambition. In order to have an intense desire for something, three components must be present. There has to simply be a desire, wis ... the witches did to allow that seed to grow and blossom, was to water it. Macbeth truly did have an intense desire to be king before he even met the witches.In order to claim that Macbeth had an ambit ...

(3 pages) 21 2 4.0 Nov/2007

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

The yellow wallpaper vs. story

hat both of the women in the stories were controlled by their husbands which caused them to feel an intense desire for freedom. Both stories were also written from a feminist point of view. However, t ... hen there is no one around to see her. However, she always keeps an eye out for someone coming. The intense desire for freedom is even more obvious in "The Story of an Hour." Mrs. Mallard's craving fo ...

(4 pages) 55 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Awakening

violence? Our use and affinity for violence derives from its necessity. The survival instinct, the intense desire for self-preservation, leads, ultimately to greed for power. After all, power is, in ...

(7 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Comment on the title 'A Cup of Tea'

rst thing from which the adventure begins. In fact, they meet each other because of the girl’s intense desire to have money for the price of a cup of tea. So a cup of tea plays key role in the pl ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature