Despair Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The literary pieces by Hemmingway and Pirandello can be compared. The piece by Pirandello was about a man, probably in his middle age, who had a wife that dies. He also loses his son, not to death, but because his son got married. He was able to see his life through the eyes of a child again after his son took him in and cared for him. However, one day when he was walking by himself, he was accused of being a pervert and he retreats to his home, staring at a blank wall. The theme of this story was of loneliness and despair. ...

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It was early in the morning, and everything in Abraham’s

and Eliezer, the faithful servant, accompanied him along
the road until he turned back again. They rode along in har-
many, Abraham and Isaac, until they came to Mount Mo-
riah. Abraham made everything ready for the sacrifice, calmly
and gently, but when he turned away and drew the knife,

Isaac saw that Abraham’s left hand was clenched in despair,

that a shudder went through his whole body — but Abraham
drew the knife.

Then they returned home again, and Sarah hurried to meet

them, but Isaac had lost the faith. Not a word is ever said of
this in the world, and Isaac never talked to anyone about
what he had seen, and ...

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Introduction

Marriage is an essential component of many societies, as it involves the union between two people in love with one another who would eventually create a family. As a form of social organization, marriage has become the subject of several controversies, with some outside of the purpose of romantic union. Notable pieces of literature attest to that fact, and this study aims to construct an analysis between two literary works – The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and A Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov. This study uses both literary works to establish ...

Analysis: Out of the Dust

Abstract
Karen Hesse's book Out of the Dust takes an unconventional approach to fiction, depicting the events of a full-length novel in a number of free verse poems. The tale of a family of farmers attempting to survive the Dust Bowl, Hesse's work is fascinating in its minimalism and heartbreaking in its focus. Hesse's free verse prose lends a childlike sense of simplicity and wonder to these heavy themes, showing just how dramatic these conditions can affect a child of that age; the result is an intelligent and thoughtful book on life in the Dust Bowl.
Karen Hesse's book Out of the ...

The story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty makes excellent use of symbolism to be able to construct some of the key themes that are brought out in the story. One of the core themes in this story is the theme of old age. Welty introduces the theme of old age by using old a symbolism of almost every aspect of the context and characters within the plot of this story. First of all, Welty introduces the main character named Phoenix Jackson. Similar to the core theme that the story seeks to portray, the main character is an old lady. ...

King Lear follows the story of the titular character Lear, an elderly king who wishes to give up his power, and attempts to divide his lands among his three daughters. However, a series of unfortunate and capricious events, brought on primarily by Lear's own vanity and anger, lead him to slowly descend into madness, pushing away his three daughters. The show turns into a bloodbath, with all three daughters and Lear dead at the end of it, with many deaths stemming from jealousy, capriciousness and futile competition among military leaders. The play, however, demonstrates Lear's journey as the end result of ...

As the vice president in charge of real estate at Desperate Airlines Company, Nash has two options. Faced with a dilemma, these options will depend on what advice he follows. In such a situation, Nash has to consider his own career at Desperate Air, his relationship with the managers at his work place, his company’s financial situation, the Fledglings Industry Company, the law point of view and even the fact that the property may end up being a residential area in the near future.
He can decide to follow his own conscience and be honest enough to tell the managers ...

Tiny Feet by Gabriela Mistral

Poetry was always the way to express yourself, to scream aloud about things that worry an author. So does Gabriela Mistral in the poem “Tiny Feet”. The topic of poverty is very familiar to her – “she was not from a moneyed elite background, but from an impoverished provincial middle-class family” (Miller, 2005). That influenced her poetry in a whole, as she tries to warn others about the terrible state of poverty.
The whole form of the poem is interesting. It consists of six stanzas; each stanza contains four lines. They all share the same scheme – three full lines, and ...

The short passage is evidence as to the suffering and agony that the monster, Frankenstein, experienced as a result of his loneliness and the grotesque sight that he was taken to be. Filled with anger and indignation that surged out of his painful quest for companionship, Frankenstein sought to wage vengeance on his creator, Victor Frankenstein, and make his life as painful as his own (Cobley, p 33). Surrendering to his painful fate, that of a monster, Frankenstein decides to adopt an evil nature which he was unwillingly chosen and crated for.

The theme of monstrosity is dominantly evidenced in this passage. ...

Introduction

According to the American Psychiatric Association (2000), a trauma is a shocking and emotionally overpowering situation that makes an individual experience a threat to psychological or physical integrity of self or others, leading to a reaction of intense fear, horror, and helplessness (Stolorow, 2007). Ver Der Kolk (1996) opines that "traumatized people lead traumatic and traumatizing lives", because they tend to re-victimize themselves, inflict self-injury, and externalize their trauma by victimizing others. The childhood trauma may trigger severe psychological reactions like Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that may affect the individual by subjecting him or her to severe depression and alcohol or drug dependence ( ...

1. Thesis Statement:
Sandra Cisneros and Maxine Hong Kingston explore immigrant dynamics and the right of women to possess their own bodies in their stories Woman Hollering Creek and The No Name Woman by using a story common to both cultures; the woman who drowns herself and her child then come back to drown others. This ending can serve as a warning not to get pulled under, but to keep struggling against adversity.
2. Argument:
Her No Name Woman is her father’s sister who killed herself and her newborn baby while the family lived in China. Her ...

Hamlet, written by the legendary William Shakespeare, is a play which tells of the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark. In the play, the Prince attempts to exact revenge on Claudius, his uncle, for murdering his father, King Hamlet. Set in the Danish Kingdom, the play explores the themes of incest, moral corruption and revenge. As odd as it may appear, it is quite ironical that Claudius decides to kill his own brother, King Hamlet, and take his wife, Queen Gertrude. When the Prince realizes the real cause of his father’s death, he is overcome with seething rage, and ...

I think this text is an incredible display of human anguish and desperation - I think it is a brilliant play because of the real and relatable emotions it elicits in its audience. The play itself evoked feelings of sadness, envy, and frustration in me during my reading - I felt bad for the characters in the work, as this family was constantly tortured by the difficulties of living life in America, as well as the difficulty of achieving the American Dream. I particularly identified with the character of Tom, who uses the movies and the fire escape as a means ...

In the Book 10 Odysseus faced quite a number of exciting adventures, some of which brought him within an inch of death. The variety of challenging circumstances which the main character had to struggle in this part of the poem was sure to reveal a lot about the Odysseus’s personality. One may make some conclusions on the matter of Odysseus’s character after having come across the very first challenge to which the author has subjected Odysseus and his mates.
The circumstances were the following: the main character and his crew came to the island of Aeolus, who was ...