Karen Casey once said that "truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." In Jane Austen's early nineteenth century novel, Persuasion, Austen depicts a simplistic story about love and anticipation. ...

Personal Reaction Essay A man and a woman who have loved for eight and a half years are finally able to wed after circumstances before had not let them. In one sentence the idea sounds cute, but Jane Austen author of Persuasion works off that very simple theme to create a masterpiece. When J...

Persuasive Essay of the novel The Great GatsbyThe novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, should be a part of the English curriculum for upperclassmen of all levels because the themes of love, desire and betrayal will always be relevant. This novel illuminates every aspect of a great American...

The individual and society is a course, which describes the struggle of individuals against social conformity. It discovers the lives of many individuals in our prescribed texts, Pride and Prejudice and A Doll's House. These texts were written in the 19th century, when authors found themselves ...

Jane Austen, unlike other famous authors of her time, wrote of the people who belonged to the upper middle class of English society. Albeit exceptional, her works dealt with the woes not of the common but the privileged man. Her characters in the novel Persuasion are set in the early 1800s, in Somer...

Democrats and Republicans, Who's Liberally Educated? A Summary of Cronon's " 'Only Connect': The Goals of Liberal Education" In William Cronon's Essay, " 'Only Connect': The goals of liberal education," Cronon explains what liberal ...

The Country Values The conflict of the story "The White Heron" arises when the little girl (Silvia) must conscientiously chose between revealing the location of the heron's nest, or seek to allure her new friend. In the first part of her story, Jewitt establishes a bound between Silvia and the hu...

Marriage Equality Love is a feeling we all hope to achieve in our life. The feeling of cuddling next to the one you love, the emotions that run though your body when you kiss that one special person. But, what if the government told you who you should and shouldn't get the opportunity to lov...

The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, women play the role as scantily clad objects subjected to male distortion at will. It seems that women are just non opinionated, easily persuaded, zombie- like tools which emotions amplify off the persuasion of the male...

Shakespearean Values In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, he writes about the four values; wit, virtue, honor, and love. Wit means to have cleverness and intelligence. Virtue and honor mean to have morality and to be without sin. Love is the universal theme. All four Shakes...

Where do religion and humanistic nature draw the line for proper human behavior? Why do some people think it is necessary to die for their beliefs? In George Orwell\'s remarks about this very topic, he draws some points on the line between sainthood and human nature. Orwell analyzes Mohandas Gandhi\...

Literature can be expressed in many ways. Some people use literature to portray life experiences. In my preference, I enjoy reading novels that I am able to relate to my own life. Most often, I love to read romance novels and poetry. Romance novels give you an understanding of different aspects of l...

Over the years, Shakespeare's sonnet has been interpreted in many different ways, but an overarching theme is still found in every version. That theme is: true love, and the constancy to do anything for love when faced with great obstacles. If we believe this poem is simply a reflection of t...

St.Augustine in the Inferno It is hard to place St. Augustine within just one of the levels of Dante's hell for his sins were varied and not great. Today many of his sins are commonplace. For example, most people attempt to better their own lives without regard of others. They attempt to increase th...

Trevor Nunn\'s direction of Shakespeare\'s \"Twelfth Night\" takes away some of the confusion present in the reading of the text, which begins with the complicated love interests of the main characters. Having been the artistic director for the world famous Royal Shakespeare Company for eighteen yea...

In the great literary pieces of our time, content, depth of character development and uniqueness are the driving forces in creating a classic work; but in Hollywood, sex, famous Hollywood names, and big money making schemes dictate the development of a project. James Fenmore Cooper created the chara...

What can we learn from Enide, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Joan of Arc about the ability of medieval women to exercise power? Be sure to consider several forms of power and to consider at least some of the following: the relationship between husband and wife; the role of love and marriage for men and ...

Throughout the entire play, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare repeatedly shows a theme of friendship. Living in Rome during 44 B.C., Brutus, an honorable man who starts out friends with both Cassius and Caesar, ends up joining along with Cassius to betray Caesar with assassination. After the assa...

Attitudes Toward WomenMany poems have been written about the lives of woman and struggle of love they went through. Two of them are "To His Coy Mistress" written by Andrew Marvell and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess." There are some similarities, as well as differences in their attitude toward ...

By Referring Closely to at least 4 poems, examine the distinct characteristics of John Donne poetry, paying particular attention to the Relationship Between Intellect and Emotion.John Donne was born in 1572 and both of his parents were Roman Catholics and as a result religion played a very prominent...

Iago is an almost subtle villain in Othello. At first glance Iago's character seems to be pure evil, however, such a villain would distract from the impact of the play and would be too stereotypical for an evil character. He does, however, possess the classic revenge motive behind all his actions, ...

The play Macbeth is well known for its use of imagery. Imagery is used for a number of reasons such as to show certain visions to the audience and to give life to the play. Lady Macbeth has a major use of imagery; her description is all imagery and progresses as the play goes on. Macbeth also has ma...

In a time where love was not the most important factor to a marriage, Jane Austen proves in her novel Pride and Prejudice that love can indeed conquer all. The love of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy faces many barriers that were eventually overcome as a result of their love for one another. When ...

Amanda Nunn Much Ado about Nothing Comment on the significance of Act IV scene 1 to the rest of the play. How effective do you think it would be on stage? Act IV, scene 1 is the most significant scene in the play, where a sharp comedy turns to near tragedy. The scene can be split into t...

 Much Ado About Nothing illustrates a kind of deliberately puzzling title that seems to have been popular in the late 1590s (ex "As You Like It"). Indeed, the play is about nothing. It follows the relationship between Claudio and Hero, which is constantly hampered by plots to d...