Essays About Emotions

The Pregnancy Trap by Gerry Garibaldi creates the idea that society has become more accepting of teenage pregnancy (634-38). When Garibaldi learns all of his favorite girls are pregnant, he asks some of them, “Do you think getting pregnant when you’re a teenager is a good thing or a bad thing? ” (635). One student, […]

Both contemporary society and 17th-century society illustrate the influence of guilt. Guilt arises from being accountable for wrongdoing, and the sole way to alleviate this feeling is by confessing to those who have endured as a consequence. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, a young woman accused of adultery, is publicly displayed as […]

Public shaming is a demeaning practice that should not be used. It has spanned the ages, changed its techniques, and yet produced little results. There are other forms of disciplines that can be used before resorting to a method that does not work. Public shaming is where a criminal is humiliated in public instead of […]

In “Desiree’s Baby,” Kate Chopin implies that an overemphasis on race purity and societal position can destroy relationships and break families apart. The concepts of race and status are intangible classifications created by humans to classify each other, their significance should not surpass the worth of a human life. However, this reasoning is neglected in […]

In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck conveys how wealth leads to loss of traditional values, loss of self, and loss of morals. Paragraph 1: Traditional values are lost under the influence of wealth. “But he could not because of some shame in him when O-lan was there before him, and his shame made him […]

1. Because she is afraid of what Robert would say about her family and what, to her opinion, are the strange ways and manners of her family members. She is ashamed that Robert will find out how weird her Chinese family and relatives act and disappointed at their Chinese version of a Christmas dinner. 2. […]

As tension between Britain and Germany grew, Britain was generally for the idea of a war. This was mainly ignorance. For a long time Britain had gone without having to fight in a war, and therefore the public hadn’t faced any recent experiences of high casualties or the true realities that war held. Many people […]

Both Christina Rossetti’s 19th-century poem “Cousin Kate” and Eileen McAuley’s 20th-century piece “The Seduction” portray actual occurrences. In “Cousin Kate”, the narrator begins by expressing joy and satisfaction. However, her life dramatically changes when a powerful lord takes notice of her, forcing her into his opulent home where he treats her as nothing more than […]

In medieval literature, love and marriage are portrayed as separate subjects. Marriage in that time was an institution of duty, restriction, and convention. Love, in contradiction to Marriage, is idealized as chivalric, adventurous, and what all women truly long for. When literature at that time began to introduce the concept of romantic love, the idea […]

The occasion for this paper was twofold. One had to do with the fact that I happened to read Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser (The Reader) (1995) and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999) in close proximity to each other. This, in itself, is not particularly remarkable because the novels themselves were published within a few years […]

David Malouf’s novel Remembering Babylon serves as a reflection of the author’s ideological concerns. David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon is a post-colonial novel that presents the unnamed Queensland settlement in the 1840’s. The novel delves into conflicts arising when Gemmy, an English castaway rescued by Aborigines, unexpectedly encounters the settlement. These conflicts reflect Malouf’s ideological concerns […]

The representation of an event or story in art is referred to as a narrative, according to Miriam Webster dictionary. However, a narrative is more than just a narrated event or another essay. It is a story told on a specific topic for a specific purpose. To illustrate the true concept of an essay and […]

Frank Hayden’s ultimate actions are driven by his self-centeredness rather than shame or guilt. His primary concern is avoiding scandal for the Hayden family, who hold influential positions in the community. However, his selfishness and animalistic behavior prevent him from confronting the truth. In the latter part of the novel, Gail Hayden experiences a change […]

There are multiple reasons why students may drop out of school, including distractions such as financial and personal issues. Many students find it difficult to stay focused in school when they are stressed about financial responsibilities or conflicts within their personal lives. Another factor that can lead to students dropping out is an unexpected pregnancy. […]

The only faculty that is able to contemplate itself and also judge others, such as grammar and music, is the rational faculty. The gods have granted us the ability to use appearances wisely, which is the greatest gift. Zeus informs Epictetus that by using our rational faculty correctly, we can avoid blaming, lamenting, or flattering […]

Many political, religious, and cultural factors shape the lives of Islamic women, which differ greatly from the factors that shape the lives of American women. Islam, one of the world’s fastest growing religions, has seen its holiest texts misused to justify the repression of women. The book argues how male pride and power have distorted […]

Passage Analysis: Bliss, The Fly and The Daughters of the Late Colonel Katherine Mansfield’s “The Collected Stories” purvey characters who are frustrated and disillusioned by the constraints and demands of society and the way it stops them from expressing emotion and control. This could be the desire to burst out with happiness, such as in […]

Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68 and is mentally disabled. Within ‘Flowers for Algernon’, we witness Charlie’s desires as a factory cleaner to become more intelligent, leading to his selection for a surgery to triple his base intelligence. The story follows the drastic changes that occur in his life due to the success of […]

Within the play Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams, the lives and relationship of Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski are plotted out in a scene of events that depicts astute betrayal and out of the ordinary family matters. Based on the time period of this play, that being of the Old South conservative dominated […]

Desiree’s Baby by Fury Borges Diaz As I read “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, I couldn’t imagine living in an era where my value as a human being was determined by my skin color. I ask myself if I would have been considered an Afro-Cuban and treated like a slave just because my father is […]

The story deals around Stella, who is pushed around by the other main characters. I The first scene really evaluates the key characters in the stories and shows how they are, by using them in situations. It demonstrates the characters’ personalities with key interactions of the characters amongst themselves. It really opens up by showing […]

When one would offer her body for money, the degree of poverty avails. Poverty, discrimination, and social class are three of the many social issues illustrated in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. In scenes one and two. Social class issues are clearly illustrated throughout the two scenes. When Blanche first arrives at New Orleans she is […]