Writers Essays

Malcolm X and Helen Keller lived in different eras. Both of them fought different battles. How can these two individuals have in anything in common? Though their hardships were totally different, Keller being blind and Malcolm X being imprisoned, they both won their battle with the English language and enjoyed …

People sometimes undergo difficult situations when they are forced to carry out orders by authority. George Orwell’s “A Hanging” is a descriptive essay about capital punishment. The setting of this essay is placed in an early twentieth-century prison in Burma, a country ruled by the British Empire. Considering that George …

Two famous writers have presented us with opposite theories about the influence of leaders. Thomas Carlyle wrote most passionately: “Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.” Heroes teach us right and wrong, …

When we are first introduced to Richard Dudgeon, at the reading of his late father Timothy’s will in his childhood home, we have already learned of his character from the opinions of three other characters: firstly, his mother, then from Anthony Anderson, the minister, and finally, from Anderson’s wife Judith. …

George Orwell uses tone and diction in his book to mold the scene of 1984 into a gloomy, dark and depressing set. He begins with setting the time of day, thirteen. Choosing “thirteen” instead of one Orwell sets a tone of an over militarized nation. He then moves on to …

In William Shakespeare’s, Macbeth, a tragedy written 1606, Shakespeare brings to attention the complex intellect between the ideas that man must face in making decisions. This play takes place in eleventh century Scotland. Macbeth, a once noble and loyal soldier turns to evil ways for things he desires such as …

In “1984”, George Orwell paints his vision of life in an age where totalitarianism has eradicated individuality, choice and personal identity. In the context of a modern dystopia in the grip of political megalomania, Orwell raises a number of concerns in connection with modern society and the human race, while …

In Isaac Asimov’s “The Eureka Phenomenon”, he explains that when relaxed, a person’s mind can solve a problem, conflict, or make a discovery much easier than if the person was in a stressed out state of mind. Examples are provided all throughout the story, including the humorous story of King …

Although “The Suit” by Can Themba and “Vendetta” by Guy de Maupassant are both well written short stories based on the theme of revenge, they achieve excellence in very different ways. In each story the basic aspect of a short story have been used in vastly differing ways. The first …

Although there are different Deist philosophies, one of the most consistent viewpoints is that our earth was created by a god who is like a blind watchmaker meaning that the Earth’s creator completed it without knowledge, but in a perfect order. Evidence of Dickinson’s belief can be acknowledged by Thomas …