Essays on Self-Pity

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF ESSAY ON “Students and Money: In Their Own Words”

The first Rhetorical device I see in the Essay on "Students and Money: In Their Own Words." By Karpeck, Griffin is the device “PATHOS” which is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. I consider the author is very much successful in this regard. In the first few lines itself he appeals to the emotion by saying that his friends smirk at him by looking at his need to do that menial job and he too has taken up the job reluctantly (i.e. he is forced ...

The Enlightenment of Buddha and C.S. Lewis’ We Have No “Right to Happiness” both deal on the themes of unbridle passions and the consequences it brings in man’s life. Buddha’s realization that the true path to Enlightenment can only be achieved through selflessness is reflective of the avarices of men. Greed and ignorance pervade through the man’s life and he as he continues to delude himself with this over and over again in his cycle of rebirth, he will be unable to find the true path to reaching enlightenment. Although the tenets of Buddhism may not ...

Bildungsroman Novel are ones that represent the evolution of a personality and character in a gradual pace and process that explore every phase of that development. Often, the depiction of the progression is such that it leads to great insight about human nature and condition. Sometimes, as in the following texts, they also lead to such aspects of a personality that leaves a permanent imprint on the readers; as the readers often find that the exploredareas are often features of their very own nature that they often remain deliberate aloof about. Then again, very strange personality traits also are observed often that are ...

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost was written almost a hundred years ago, and is still one of the most popular and loved pieces of poetry in English-speaking world end beyond. The poem is very brief – only twenty short lines, and as many other pieces of poetry of similar size is deep in meaning and may be interpreted in various ways. It would be reasonable to perform a textual analysis, as proper understanding of lexics and their combination may be a key to a better understanding of the meaning of the poem, both written and unwritten.

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Introduction

”Why I live at the P.O.” is a monologue story in which the main narrator, whom other characters refer to as “Sister,” clearly explains how it transpired that she left her family home in China Grove, Mississippi. While in the process of her narration, she unknowingly reveals her characters as well as reveals many family secrets (Crow, 26). According to the narrator, her experiences with her Uncle Rondo, her grandfather and her loving mother had always been harmonious until the 4th of July holiday. This is when her younger sister, Stella-Rondo, suddenly leaves her husband to return to her ...

Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Death of Ivan Ilych, tells the story of a man in his middle-forties about to die of unknown causes. Because of this, the protagonist, Ivan Ilych, begins to reflect on his life, whether he was able to lead a good and fulfilling life or not. As he became successful at work, he spent less time with his family as his relationship with his family became intolerable. While Ilych was well-loved by his colleagues, his wife and daughter do not share the same affections towards him. The only one that truly showed compassion towards him is his ...

One of the most complicated questions to answer in human behaviour is how a person becomes who he or she is. In this context, the main problem is in identifying the difference between inborn inclinations of an individual and subsequent influence of the surrounding environment of living. From one point scientists argue that the answer to who we are is in our genes and DNA chains, and we cannot go beyond what our DNA has programmed us to be capable of. From another point of view, we are what are made by totality of factors. Among these factors are our ...

Introduction

In the opening of the story, Hemmingway begins with a short pitch epigraph, an observation of a lone dried leopard carcass that sought the tip of Mount Kilimanjaro, which the Maasai call "Ngaje Ngai," meaning the House of God (Hemingway, 2004). Harry, a writer, attempted to return the virtues of honesty, hard work, and struggles as a step in the right direction through his African safari. His previous life was characterized by luxury, idleness, and procrastination. The writer has lived under his wife’s (Helen) wealth, which has made him decline in his artistic work. The theme of self-pity and frustration are the ...

Introduction

It is obvious that our culture today is filled with victim mentality. This is a clear reflection of our society’s reality where it is easier for people to blame others because of their unhappy existence and situations (Morin, 2011). People lack the power to influence changes in their lives due to the perception that their lives element are far out of control. In most cases they tend to ask themselves, ‘why do bad things keep happening to me?’ These are habits that we find in so many people around us and at times we find ourselves in this situation. ...

Critical Review of Sarah Hannah’s "The Colors Are Off This Season”

Critical Review of Sarah Hannah’s "The Colors Are Off This Season” Sarah Hannah is one of the greatest poets of the twenty first century. She was a teacher with the hand and heart of an artist. Before her death in the year 2007, she had written some of the greatest poems there are today. Her poems express a different kind of emotion. In most of her poems she re-imagined her childhood and recreated her childhood memories. She was different from other poets in the manner she presented her themes in her poems. Characterized by vivid descriptions her poems contained ...

D. H. Lawrence, “Self Pity” D. H. Lawrence although very often expresses his life experiences in his writings. “Self Pity” is a very short poem but beyond the line Lawrence is telling a story. In “Self Pity” Lawrence is creating an image of a wild thing feeling sorry for itself. The reader can imagine a lion, a tiger or even a raccoon walking around with a long face expressing self pity. Yes, that would look ridiculous and when the reader juxtaposition himself or herself with the wild thing he/she realizes that self pity pointless. Thoroughly looking at this simple poem it is obvious it ...

Introduction

Until publication of this paper, only a few psychiatric and psychoanalytic papers had reported on features of self-pity in the context of other topics. This was the first study to use empirical findings to elucidate aspects of personality linked to self-pity. The author addressed this gap in the literature by recruiting undergraduate students at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to complete a series of questionnaires. The results were used to correlate expression of self pity with other aspects of personality as defined by the Big Five personality dimensions. (Stober, 2003) The author predicted that self-pity tendencies would correlate with increased levels ...

Of the narratives, I have pursued in my all too-short span of life, "Shame" has as much impact as any great, eternal missive to the sum total of mankind.

Any message that is deep-rooted and profound can strike us considerably without having to be written in a long story. The story conveys a message about humanity and morality, the way in which the character has been described and his narrative mentioned, it is enough to make the reader feel touched. So many questions - here is one of my favorites: why are there TWO narratives here?There are two narratives because they ...

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Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises represents a drunkenness-infused, dissipated, and tragedy-stricken collection of antiheroic characters, adequately deemed the Lost Generation. Their postwar plight for meaning in a desolate wasteland of existence is a futile one, painfully aware of the fact that no baptism would wash away their sins. The psychological structure of these characters is equally marred by their profuse alcoholism and debauchery, and their ultimate tragedy is that the all but subtle myth of the generation they belong to would keep them in a perpetual state of psychological hell. The aftermath of the World War I challenged all the ...