Essays on Character

“The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.” – Susan Jacoby.  Marginalization is the treatment of a person or group of people as insignificant and the act of pushing them to the edge of society. These...

“Identity is not something we see, it is an invisible link that connects one to the world” Identity is what makes a person human, identity encompasses our beliefs, culture, personality and even our qualities. Many authors use different techniques to form a characters identity, but...

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote maintains significant themes all through the novel, where the main point is that the main character Don Quixote’s honorable gallantry and perceptive delusions cause him to see the world as charmed. On a few records all through the story it...

Lu Xun is one of China’s most famous and well-known poets and author, he is also considered by many people “the father of modern Chinese literature”. Lu Xun’s Selected Stories were based from three of his famous story collections that include: Wandering, Call to Arms...

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, the author uses the change in Lily Owens as she works through accepting the guilt for accidentally killing her mother to support a theme of finding forgiveness and love for herself; it is...

There is a lot in the world that there is to question from love, the world, existence, and much more. Writers and artists dedicate what they do to show us what the world was like at a certain point through their eyes. Modernism was the...

Jim Carrey once said, “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in the world”. Throughout T. S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,’ the main character characterization explains why he locks his true identity, the one he desperately wish to share...

The episode that I chose to watch for this assignment was Winnie the Pooh Shapes and Sizes. The character that I focused on was Rabbit. To diagnose someone with OCD it requires them to have an obsession and/or compulsions which are time-consuming. They cause distress, impairment...

A.A Milne’s 1977 show Winnie The Pooh secretly deals with the topic of mental disorders, whether it be the depression of Eeyore, or schizophrenic tendencies of Christopher Robin, many of the characters in this happy, upbeat kids show have a hidden issue. First of all,...

Both Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry show a multitude of unfortunate circumstances, with the women being presented at fault. Throughout Antionette’s journey we see a lack of equality drawn out through the character of Rochester as well as objectification...