Character Essays

Abstract             This essay is written in the form of a dream sequence involving actions and interactions that reveal more than three traits of the characters Nick and Gatsby from F.Scott Fitzgerald’s book “The Great Gatsby”, (1926). It explains the dream and how it reveals the central character, who is …

Introduction In literature, there have been antagonists and villains that live a mark in the minds of people; however, there is none quite as well known and recognized as Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello, The Moor of Venice.  Shakespeare has drawn a clear image of a villain who is very nasty …

Zelig is the same as any other less fortunate old man who sees life as miserable and painful. The story of Zelig can be said as a life of an old man in a third world country or in a community where there is discrimination, injustices, and mistreatment because the …

Morrison uses the multifaceted and ghostly character of Beloved as a means of revealing the many facets of other characters – and providing insights into their personas and their trepidations. With the corporeal manifestation of Beloved’s ghost, Morrison is able to intertwine the present happenings of Sethe, Denver and Paul …

On a bright and sunny Sunday afternoon, the house of Chartwell stood in majesty against the cloudless deep blue sky in a slightly lopsided hill, partially covering the handsome manor with stately looking trees and other vegetation. The air was cool and damp, filled with different fragrances coming from the …

The short stories A Hunger Artist and Bartleby the Scrivener illustrate two very deviant characters. They both represent the human being’s whimsical desire to rebel against social forces and community standards. In A Hunger Artist we see a man who refuses to accept the fact that times were changing and …

            Introduction             William Jefferson Clinton despite a few shortcomings possessed the real qualities of a leader championing the country to great achievements while displaying a strong ability to deal with criticism. He significantly contributed to American development when he became the 42nd president of the United States between 1993 …

  This paper will analyze the character of Nora from the play entitled ‘A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen. We will do this by looking at act 1. The setting of this play is in the Helmer’s apartment in Norway. The events in the play occur against a background of …

            The model of the tragic hero and heroine has enthralled audiences from antiquity to date.  Few, if any themes are more fascinating than seeing a larger than life character pursue an errant action which results in personal catastrophe, only to be reborn through the trial by fire and restored …

 In Hardy’s The Return of the Native Egdon Heath is all-pervasive, without which the novel would have been inconceivable. The Heath, in fact, is an extended image of the Nature of which man is a part, in which he is caught ,which conditions his very being. His life in relation …