A Great and Terrible Beauty

dictionary is continuously being slimmed down, unnecessary words being removed. In the modern English dictionary, there are hundreds of words that share meanings with one another but have different emphasis. In Orwell’s Newspeak dictionary, words such as “great” and “excellent” will be replaced with “plusgood” and “doubleplusgood”. The Party is using Newspeak to “narrow the range of thought… make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it,” as…

Death As Inevitability In ‘Totem’ Plath once described this poem as “a pile of interconnected images like a totem pole” (Padel, 2013). Even the title resounds a spiritual significance. A totem is kinship related, and the interconnected images that compose the poetic totem explore an almost ritual, visceral blood relationship to death in which all life forms are implicated. Life, thus, is adopted as an emblem for death. Plath’s Totem is in fact a culmination of her fatalistic attitude, the…

carefully stitched each component together. Victor had felt her soft, smooth skin, while working in haste and hoped that the creature would be pleased with the beauty that the bride held. However, Victor had a sour taste in his mouth from the perilous, tremulous task that he would soon accomplish and hoped that he could escape his terrible fate. As Victor worked, many thoughts drifted through his mind. His strongest one was how Victor…

host were strong. Each was bound to help and never harm the other… shamed the hand that gave him food, stealing away a woman.” (Hamilton 257) C. Although he was entitled to Helen by Aphrodite, she had already been wedded to another man. The god of beauty had no other choice but to grant Paris his wish. The way that he had taken the wife of Menelaus, however, was cowardly and dishonored the sacred ties between host and guest. This example of insolence is significant at this point in the story…

There are not too many stories of the Bible that contain women. The few women that I am focusing on, Eve, Delilah, Vashti and the daughters of Lot, are a few of the females considered “bad” to some people. Their stories have given society an idea of what deeds are seen as moral and those that are wrong. All of these women have performed a sinful act, but there are actions that are considered bad and others that could be seen as good. From the beginning, Eve has represented women and all of…

As humans, it is our natural instinct to pursue happiness, which is why many people search for different ways to live a happier life. Some find joy in helping others, while there are those who resort to materialism in order to feel happy. Interestingly enough, numerous study reveals that older people are much happier and satisfied with their lives. Another study shows that our perception of happiness differs based on our genetics, culture, social status, and many other essential factors.…

As humans, we tend to have unintentionally developed preconceptions in which we place entities into groups with other entities that share interests and understanding. In a world where these groups have unspoken norms, conventions, and regularities, people often tend to shy away from what they do not know or understand—that which they have no preconception of. Humans by nature assume and judge that which is different before ever actually attempting to understand not only what those differences…

this liner makes more since. Going through all that she went through, the narrator takes the time now to reflect on the events around Manderley. she envision that she herself is now the ghost and is wandering back to the mansion. Through all its terrible and satisfaction memories it brings about. "A dreamer I walked enchanted and nothing held me back." The narrator often times has a run around in thoughts and reflects her surroundings mostly likely noting the negative. As much as external…

elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex…” (107). Wollstonecraft criticizes the idea that women should be more concerned on enhancing her beauty, rather than on building her intellectual in order to establish themselves in society and finally get married. She also condemns men who self-impose the right to decide for women, subjugating, undermining and excluding them from society. She…

without seeing him, as I was unable to see him earlier in the year at one of his rallies because of the thousands of people there. Finally, I ended my day eating at a restaurant where the show, “The Big Bang Theory”, is filmed. The restaurant was terrible in my opinion, however I think it’s cool that so many so many TV shows have places in New York visible to the general public. For example, I saw the building of the David Letterman show which is one of my favorite talk shows. I’d love to come…