Literature Essays

Desiree’s Baby’ written by Kate Chopin represents one man’s domination over a woman. Armand was a plantation owner and a descendant of the Aubigny family, which holds “one of the oldest and proudest (names) in Louisiana”. In contrast, Desiree was adopted into a family without a valued, respected name. Thus …

The two short stories ‘The Fury’ and ‘The Story of an Hour’ share a lot of parallels, for instance, they both focus strongly on the theme of marriage and how in marriage both partners need to be able to have independence and freedom to retain their own individuality. In ‘The …

What it means to be ‘heroic’ is to be brave, courageous or noble. Courage is a “quality shown by someone knowing there are dangers or difficulties lying ahead”. A ‘heroine’ is a woman who is brave or shows these qualities. The protagonists in these stories may be considered to be …

The main character in The Necklace, written by Guy de Maupassant, is a woman named Mathilde. In Desiree’s Baby, written by Kate Chopin, the main character is, not surprisingly, Desiree. Both central characters are female. In this essay I will compare these two characters and show to you how fate, …

Racism has been an issue throughout time, and in some societies it is still present. The belief that an individual of a different race or colour is not equal to an individual, who is “white”, has caused many fights, arguments and deaths. In the nineteenth century, the slave trade was …

Statistically, Down’s Syndrome affects 1 in every 800 babies born. There is no medicine can down’s syndrome people take to become not down’s syndrome ones, so there is no doubt that D.S. is a social problem. The problem associated obviously with matching D.S. Children to pre-set curriculum. Down’s Syndrome or …

The film the Grapes of Wrath is about a family from Oklahoma trying to escape the Dust Bowl, which dried up the land, caused the lack of jobs, and made them to move to California in hopes of finding better jobs. The story begins with Tom Joad the main character, …

This documentary film is about a black man on death row in the Mississippi state prison, in 1979, Edward Earl Johnson charged with the shooting of a white police marshal and the attempted rape of a 60 year old white woman. Johnson has spent 8 years on death row appealing …

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. The reason that there is so much suffering in the world is because people still love and care for each other. The love …

This relatively short recount of Irene Pepperberg’s experiment with Alex is a very intriguing book. The truth behind it and the idea of a thirty year experiment between man and beast is awe-inspiring. The short 226 page story is written by Irene herself, but recounts the story very well in …