Essays on Character

In today’s society, there have been many written works that have the ideals of utopia and a sense of happiness but during the times of when the French Revolution came along, there was a lot more conflict and more violence. This sense of conflict is...

In ”Heart of darkness”, Joseph Conrad uses the jungle as a background or a backdrop of the story. The wilderness is a mysterious thing, that develops the anomaly of the novella. during this quotation, ”Trees, trees, many trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at...

An anti-hero is the protagonist of a story that lacks heroic characteristics, they have some good qualities as well as some bad qualities. On the other hand, a tragic hero is, as described by Aristotle, “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and...

What is human nature? According to the dictionary, human nature is “the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans.” It is the total of our species identity, all the characteristics that make humans uniquely human. Throughout the...

“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...