Anger Essays

In the final part of the story “The Dead,” Gabriel experiences various emotions leading up to a moment of epiphany. This significant realization had been hinted at earlier in the story and is made more powerful by the preceding feelings. Upon arriving at the hotel with Gretta, Gabriel is overcome with a sense of euphoria. […]

1. The main character of the story is Farrington, an alcoholic who works as a clerk, and is bullied and verbally abused by his boss, Mr. Alleyne. Miss Delacour plays the role of a wealthy client. Mr. Shelley is the head clerk at Farrington’s office. The characters Nosey Flynne, O’Halloran, Callan, Paddy Leonard are the […]

On my first visit to the Tate I was completely unprepared for the room of the three awesome and enormous John Martin Paintings. I am also going to compare and contrast the three paintings with works I found on a school trip to Berlin. In this essay, I intend to focus on the three judgement […]

I reacted to two stimuli: an article about a Chinese orphanage where babies suffered due to insufficient staff and funding, and Henry Sleasar’s “Examination Day”. The initial stimulus explained that parents were forced to abandon their children for various reasons, such as the cultural preference for baby boys over girls in China. Consequently, numerous baby […]

The tall concrete walls of the dark cutting prevented any light from penetrating. The dark and ghostly atmosphere is set by the constant darkness surrounding the signalman’s box located outside a damp tunnel where water trickles down its sides. In the novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, Piggy is introduced as a short, overweight boy who […]

Malachy is an irresponsible father to his children, who doesn’t support them in the way that he should. Despite Malachy’s lack of parenting skills, he loves his children very much and they are important to him. Malachy would like to be a good father to his children but parts of his faulted personality prevent him […]

One thing Duffy does very well is to write her first and last sentences carefully. These relate to violence very well. The first sentence “Today I am going to kill something”, this is a very strong start and very different. Usually the first sentences of poems are happy and then they might gradually turn into […]

Surprised by the familiar face, I noticed an unfamiliar smile and tone. Despite feeling nervous, my mouth dropped open as I tried to avoid her intense stare. While contemplating the reasons behind a predator’s decision not to attack its prey, I came to the realization that this same motive had caused a transformation within myself. […]

In Brave New World, Huxley effectively uses character interactions to convey the prevalent values and ideals. Chapter thirteen specifically demonstrates this through the exchange between Henry Foster and Lenina. Henry invites Lenina to the ‘feelies’, but when she declines, he questions if she’s going out with someone else and shows interest in which friend is […]

Fiona Farrell and Tatamkhulu Afrika, the writers of the two poems convey similar feelings about oppression and injustice through many different techniques, such as layout, line length and choice of language. Charlotte O’Neil’s Song is about a general servant working for an upper class family who finally decides she has had enough and moves on. […]

The Places Fault: This is an autobiographical poem recounting a short unhappy period of the poet’s childhood. He was evacuated to North Yorkshire during the war years. While he was little there, he experienced severe bullying, both on the streets and in school and the suffering and taunts and beatings he endured at the hands […]

Feminist Criticism focuses on the inequality and oppression of women within society. Literary feminine criticism today is the result of the ‘women’s movement’ of the 1960 which realized the significance of images of women put forward by literature and saw that it was vital to combat and question their authority and coherence. This movement has […]

‘Nothing’s Changed’ and ‘Ogun’ are very good examples of hymns of protest. A hymn of protest is a poem that raises awareness about an unjust issue or suffering in the world. The main reason why these poems were written was to show suffering, inequality, racism, and slavery in the world. Therefore their aim is to […]

In my essay I aim to compare the similarities and state the differences between two poems, Sylvia Plath’s, ‘Daddy’ and Emily Dickinson’s, ‘I Felt a Funeral in my Brain.’ These two poems deal with intense emotions and extreme cases of anger from the writer’s own real-life experiences. Sylvia Plath had an extremely traumatic childhood as […]

In this essay, I will compare two stories that depict different time periods: “Tony Kytes”, set around 1870, and “Tickets Please”, set around 1918. The latter story takes place after the war and portrays a world where women were more independent and vocal about their rights. It was common for women to work in traditionally […]

Both ‘Tony Kytes’ by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and ‘Turned’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) explore similar themes but have contrasting messages. ‘Tony Kytes’ delves into how young love can make fools out of people, whereas ‘Turned’ presents a biased perspective against men, portraying them as wicked towards the virtuous female characters in the story. The […]

Rejection and Years Ago are both poems that discuss the theme of love and relationships that have gone wrong. However in the poem Rejection, Sullivan describes the consequences of a rejection and is saying her thoughts aloud. Conversely in the poem Years Ago the poet highlights what love brings about and recollects her memories. In […]

Seneca who was a Spanish-born stoics philosopher and a good public speaker between 4 B. C and 65 B.C has given his opinion about anger in his essay ‘On Anger’. This essay will illustrate his views on anger by looking at his definition on anger, the discordances of anger with nature, the decision to start […]

The film ‘Thelma and Louise’ is about two women, who originally intended to go on a quiet fishing weekend in the mountains to have a break from their respective partners, but owing to a string of tragic circumstances Louise becomes a wanted criminal and Thelma is quick to follow suit. In the beginning of the […]

Through out Unforgiven, visual, sound and setting elements are used to create meaning. This is especially true in the final sequence in which visual elements illustrate the meaning and state of beings of characters and the situation. The closing sequence involves William Munney living up to the perceptions made of him through out the film […]

We live in a culture highly obsessed with the celebrity, they play a large role in the lives of individuals, whether subconsciously aware of this or not. The space they occupy in our lives has been for the most part, unexplored. This essay attempts to explore the ways in which celebrities exert a gatekeeping control […]

There are a batch of squads in our society today. For kids, its playing every twenty-four hours at school with association football squad. For grownups, its back uping their front-runner athletics squad during tourneies. They bet for their participants, show involvement in following their advancement lucifers after lucifers. To one extent, they can experience really […]