Exemplification Essay

that was synonymous with Neoclassicism and industrialisation. Through idealistic tendencies, the Romantics sought a transcendent existence in response to the inauthentic state of their human experience. Through the glorification of nature, the exemplification of the power of imagination and freedom of emotional expression, composers profoundly engage with elements of the authentic human experience. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s conversation poem, ‘This Lime Tree Bower My Prison’ (1797), his ballad,…

In reference to the mythical world of Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan flawlessly describes family dynamic. “Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum”. Families though messy,are truly one of the most important things in one’s life, and in the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Wolff. Jolly is seventeen with two young children, no…

Mary Karr is a critically acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist, who is an exemplar of the characteristics of a Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate serves as a liaison between the general public and the poetry community, spreading awareness and inspiring novice poets through their excellent prose. Karr’s poetry is especially accessible and distinctly American, as seen through her use simple yet meaningful vocabulary and explicitly American characteristics and techniques, making her an acutely apt…

The MBTI assessment is a four-letter code for what personality type each individual possesses. There are 16 different personalities, but each individual has one that is special to them. They are filled with both strengths and weaknesses, and can be useful in many ways. Let’s explore mine. The four letters that I got on my MBTI assessment were INTP. I stands for introvert, N stands for intuitive, T stands for thinking, and P stands for perceiving. Of all my letters, the I and the T were the least…

Although seemingly written as simple love stories, Austen and Shakespeare reveal love’s true complications of trials and and eventually triumph through the characterization of individuals as parental figures of guidance and the exemplification of social implications in the works of Persuasion, As You Like It, and Romeo and Juliet. The complications that arise in Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Persuasion dramatically affect the course of the stories. As “the pair of star-crossed…

Even before Romans, Greeks were already performing some type of acting with principal focus on violence. Theater was developed based on Greeks and Romans’ ideologies, but it was not until Elizabethan era, also known as “Golden age,” when theater was expanded and because of Shakespeare’s contributions the performing were more largely expanded to tragedy, romance, drama and comedy. He was the most recognized person by Queen Elizabeth I. Since theater became more a business, Shakespeare had to…

Food: a necessity obligatory for our livelihood, yet its composition as well as its diverse and customary preparations has a prominence whether it is used for comfort, a curated passion such as cooking or occupied as a food critic, or if it is just something utilized to cure boredom. Regarding food and cinema, Itami Juzo’s Tampopo is one of the handfuls of motion pictures created towards the infrequent “noodle western” genre of filmography contributing to the multiple food films seen in cinema.…

In Media Studies, it is significant to state the difference between the narrative and story. According to K. R. Jennings (2015) “A story is a structured narrative. It has a beginning, middle and end. It typically contains other ingredients too, like characters and a plot.” Furthermore Jennings states that “a narrative, on the other hand, is a sequence of events. It has no standard form or structure. No distinct beginning or end.” Simply put, narrative is principally the order in which something…

Martin’s story as an example to others. Unlike the accounts of men who the world considered great and who according to him “seek perpetuity for themselves only with regard to human memory,” (White, 135) he believes that St. Martin is an exemplification of what men ought to seek, that is eternal life not eternal fame. A seemingly Christian writer, Severus takes great pains to make Desiderius, to whom he sends his account of St. Martin, aware of his discomfort writing on St. Martin given his lack…

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and No Country for Old Men deals with the concept of good versus evil very uniquely and different from each other. Sheriff Bell and the Father are trying their very best to maintain peace and balance in their chaotic environments. The idea of good versus evil is introduced in both these novels from the beginning, gradually this battle becomes clear cut both Sheriff Bell and the Father have to face it head on. In Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Sheriff Bell…