Character Essays

Torvald fascinates beauty and appearances to bring his own character up or to give himself a higher status. Furthermore, his attitudes do not change throughout the story line. Torvald is a follower of the society and he just can’t understand the other side of life. Doing into more depth Torvald …

In both plays Creon is of high social status. In Antigone he is the king of Thebes. In Oedipus the King he is the brother in law to Oedipus and becomes king at the end of the play. In Antigone, Creon is portrayed as a main character as the plot …

In A Tale of Two Cities Dickens describes Tellson’s Bank using the humor and satire. The Tellson’s Bank, a type, which actually existed in 1780, is described by Dickens as “an old fashioned, boastful, small, dark and ugly place with musty odour”(p.51). His derogation with this bank is obvious through …

“The best servant does his work unseen,” stated by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. in The Poet at the Breakfast Table, strongly epitomizes the significance of people that transcends in their roles as being a servant to assist in another’s greater cause. Their heroism usually goes unnoticed until the greatest times …

Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby dedicate their lives to searching for different versions of the American Dream, but because they have distorted views of themselves and the world they live in, neither is able to reach his goals. Gatsby’s only motivation …

The main character of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus, is a cunning man. The Odyssey is a tale of Odysseus’ long and trying journey home after fighting in the Trojan War. On his way home, he upsets Poseidon, god of the sea, by blinding Poseidon’s son. In retaliation, Poseidon strives to make …

The character of the swipe in Sherwood Anderson’s “I’m A Fool” reminds the reader of J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield — a slightly unschooled youth seeking greatness through ordinary means. Headstrong and determined to make something of himself, Anderson’s swipe could be any one of a million young men throughout the …

In John Updike’s “A&P”, the main character, Sammy, becomes the story’s narrator. Sammy is a typical nineteen-year-old man, working a boring, dead end job as a grocery store cashier in a lower middle class town. His only role models are Stokesie, a twenty-two year-old man doing the same job as …

In Chapter 13 of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. William Collins is introduced as a cousin of the Bennet’s and heir to their estate through a letter that he sends to Mr. Bennet. Mr. Collins writes the Bennet family to notify them that he is coming to visit them …

The Greek philosopher Aristotle set forth the guidelines for a tragedy in his work Poetics. According to Aristotle, the tragic character in a tragedy is a person, not all good or bad, who begins in a rank of high degree and importance and then experiences a downfall due to a …