Dream Essays

Physiological psychology focuses on the relationship between our biological makeup and our behaviour and experiences. This area of psychology can be very convincing. For example we do know that the structure of our nervous system (including our brains) and the action of chemicals can have an effect on our behaviour. Some physiological psychologists take a […]

“Flowering Judas”, a short novel, is also one of Katherine Anne Porter’s typical representatives among her literary achievement. The short story describes an American girl named Laura. She departs from Catholicism and goes to Mexico as an English teacher. When Laura is involved in an socialist revolutionary in Mexico, she meets Braggioni who is a […]

On August 28, 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D. C. , Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a 17-minute public speech to over 200,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was a response to continued racial bias nearly 100 years after the end of slavery […]

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare easily blurs the lines of reality by inviting the audience into a dream. He seamlessly toys with the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Among the patterns within the play, one is controlled and ordered by a series of contrasts: the conflict of the sleeping and waking states, the interchange […]

I hear that a lot from my teachers. I have them clap their hands in front of my face or shake my desk to get me to pay attention. Common Ground- I’m sure everyone has had a story like one of mine, you were innocently daydreaming and in your own subconscious world, when you were […]

The character Walter Younger in the play A Raisin in the Sun is a man who believe true happiness is only achieved by living the American Dream to the fullest. Walter’s mind is twisted and warped by society into thinking money is the key to become truly happy in life. He is also living in […]

I have wanted to go for a vacation for very long. The country for my dream vacation is Australia. Australia is a part of the continent, Oceania. It is a big country with many attractions. I am going to share with you, in this essay, what attracts me such that I want to go to […]

The Alchemist is a journey of exploration and self-discovery as we follow the main character, Santiago, a young shepherd who lives in Spain, on a journey to fulfill his personal legend. The novel shows us wisdoms and gentle reminders of how to change our lives from what they may be today into the life we […]

“It is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value the most. ” –Unknown. Countless authors have tried to display love as human nature, but no author does this better than the famous playwright, William Shakespeare. In both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare exhibits how love […]

“That’s what it was always about. Shedding your past. Creating yourself from nothing, Now I realize that that’s what attracted me to Willie Bodega. Willie Bodega didn’t just change me and Blanca’s life, but the entire landscape of the neighborhood. Bodega would go down as a representation of all the ugliness in Spanish Harlem and […]

“Omon Ra”, a novel written by the Russian author, Victor Pelevin, is definitely an interesting and enjoyable story. The story deals with the central character, Omon Krizomazov, who lives up to his dream in becoming an astronaut and flying into space. Omon’s family is broken and absent which leads him in becoming a child of […]

Children in families with absent fathers are more vulnerable compared to the children in families, where two parents are present. Self-appraisal in children with absent fathers is quite low, as these children suffer from their mother’s emotional crisis, as well as her attempts to replace the role that the father is supposed to play, as […]

The tension that Steinbeck creates in chapter six is very prominent; there are moments of peace and moments of despair. The first case in which Steinbeck creates tension is at the very beginning of the first chapter where the reader can hear peace. It is only after reading chapter six that the reader on hindsight […]

A Raisin in the Sun takes a few weeks out of the life of the Younger Family. They are an African American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950’s. Both the play and the movie have an appealing everyman quality about it and makes one feel, regardless of their race, sympathy […]

Young Goodman Brown, the famous short story and allegory by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a classic that has definitely stood the test of time. Since it is an allegory, practically everything in the story is symbolic. The story is also ironic. Nathaniel Hawthorne came from a long line of prominent Puritans and even though the family […]

Written by Stephen Greenblatt, one interesting point in “Resonance and Wonder” is the idea of the need to distinguish what he labels as the two unique models with regard to the practice regarding museography. The first refers to resonance while the second refers to wonder. In his work, Greenblatt tells us that resonance points to […]

Frankenstein makes liberal use of first person narrative to verbally illustrate the text in a number of ways. Through doing this, it aims to show a hidden depth to the inner workings of the mind of the narrator, it can make a scene more dramatic, it can allow the reader to more fully relate with […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play written by Shakespeare in the late fifteenth century for a nobleman’s wedding. This wedding had an important guest, Queen Elizabeth the first. Therefore, we can say that the play was specifically written for this occasion. It is not a serious or solemn play, but rather a romantic and […]

Although there is no definite evidence, historians say that the original production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will have probably been performed at either The Globe Theatre or alternatively, The Rose Theatre in around 1596, the year of Thomas Barkley and Elizabeth Carey’s wedding. Carey was Queen Elizabeth’s god-daughter, meaning that the reception and celebrations […]

In Remarque’s “All Quiet On The Western Front,” the introduction to the character ‘Kantorek’ involves multiple characters in one scene. This technique by Remarque effectively keeps the reader engaged and interested in the plot. The soldiers’ perspective towards Kantorek is highly biased. They refer to him as short and jestingly remark on how often short […]

Throughout the “Withered Arm” the main characters: Rhoda Brook and Gertrude Lodge experience lots of tragedy, and due to this, the book makes the audience empathise with the two of them. The following paragraphs will examine the lengths and extremes of these tragic events, and therefore conclude who deserves our sympathy. Rhoda Brook is a […]

My dream place is a metaphorical island, a small bungalow type building perched on a ledge high up on a mountain, over viewing a vast sea of forest and greenery. The house itself is small in its own cosy kind of way. It is almost entirely made up of wood, the thick panelled mahogany walls […]