Short Argumentative Essay Example

“If you do not love me, I shall not be loved. If I do not love you, I shall not love” was said in the poem called, “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. He wrote this about a girl, who didn’t love him like he loved her. Teenage true love doesn’t exist. However, Shakespeare wrote a play called, “Romeo and Juliet” that is about a pair of two “star-crossed lovers”. Romeo and Juliet aren't in love because they’re strangers, they’re violent, and their families hate each other. One reason Romeo and Juliet…

Conflict is the anxiety caused by two opposite characters or the struggles created between a person and the society (Cuddon, 2013 & Quinn, 2006). According to them, conflicts are divided into internal and external. Internal conflicts happen when the character struggles with himself, his inner side, whereas external happens when the character struggles with another character or the society, the outer world. In this part of my thesis paper, I will be focused on the external and internal conflicts…

Literary critic, Kenneth Eble, analyzed Gatsby’s character himself and states that: “Gatsby, the ‘mythic’ embodiment of the American dream, is shown to us in all his immature romanticism. His insecure grasp of social and human values, his lack of critical intelligence and self-knowledge, his blindness to the pitfalls that surround him in American society, his compulsive optimism, are realized in the text with rare assurance and understanding. And yet the very grounding of these deficiencies is…

Temperament” by Willa Cather and Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Death by Landscape,” focus on how the protagonists are isolated from the world, the people around them, and how they handle conflicts. There are similarities in how the protagonists are isolated and involved in conflicts or struggles, and although both protagonists experience a suicide situation, their endings are different. Paul, the protagonist in “Paul’s Case,” lives his short life fully, whereas Lois, the protagonist in “Death…

The title, “Meeting at Night”, might convey the understanding of improper seeing to the reader. Are there any reasons that people have an appointment at night, especially to the meeting between men and women? It is easily thought out of something wrong and secret. Throughout the poem, it shows the effort of the speaker in the long journey to meet someone on night-time. In their relation, related to love, is surely found at the end of the proem that their hearts are beating when meeting. Moreover…

The movie High Noon written by Carl Foreman and the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell are very similar yet very different at the same time. In High Noon the main character Will Kane is conflicted with many miniature conflicts, but the main one is he has to take down Frank Miller and his possy. On the other side in the story “The Most Dangerous Game”, the protagonist Rainsford gets stranded on an island, and then is hunted by a man named Zaroff who is a superb hunter and…

In the two plays Act Without words and Soul Gone Home the playwrights develop the theme of their play in uncommon way. They try to send their play’s message by making the readers think deeply and by making him imagine what they are reading. The words do not have the importance of actions and symbols in these plays. Moreover, they show the area when the people begin losing their trust in God. They give up trying to face the struggle and to have the courage to develop themselves and their life.…

THE SECRET HISTORY: A novel analysis The secret history is a fictional novel written by an American writer Donna Tartt and was published in year 1992. It was the first novel of Donna Tartt and the story addresses a different perspective of typical college students’ life. Donna Tartt was born in the 23rd of December year 1963 in Greenwood, Mississippi. She enrolled in the University of Mississippi in which where her writings has caught the attention of a famous American writer Willie Morris.…

Plot and Conflict Structure In the beginning of the story the author tells about a boy name Keesh who lived in the poor condition together with his mother. Keesh lived at the edge of the polar sea. The father of Keesh had been a brave man. But he had died hunting for food. Keesh was his only son. Keesh lived alone with his mother, Ikeega. One night, the village council met in the big Igloo of Klosh-kwan, the chief. keesh listened, then he waited for silence. He said, "It is true that you give…

Response When we analyze Samuel Beckett’s work, Endgame, we are able to observe different interpretations. At first glance, the viewer might assume that the purpose of the work was to show a typical family scene, represented by elderly parents, their son already advanced in age and his servant dissatisfied with his labor, but always helpful. If it is analyzed in greater depth, we can find other interpretations such as, seeing the work, from a psychoanalytic point of view, consider it as the mind…