Edgar Schein

Tragedy will reveal the beauty behind the pain. This truth is made clear in Thomas Scarseth's excerpt "A Teachable Good Book: Of Mice and Men". In the excerpt, Scarseth states that Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tragedy. The tragedy is the pain of living life and being defeated can be transformed into the beauty of art. With the book, Of Mice and Men, Scarseth established his opinion in three ways. The first claim was how the tragedy in Of Mice and Men is in a Shakespearean sense. His…

Emily Dickinson is one of the most famous poets of early America. She wrote many poems during the Civil War and the period where many people were heading to the West. Death was prominent in society and much of her writing is about death. Her writing about death is different from that of authors because she writes casually about her own death as she would any other event in her life. She is not writing about her physical death, but rather a lack of life. Dickinson’s “It was not Death, for I stood…

Borges’ “The Mirror of Ink” embodies the essence of a quintessential moral anecdote. Brief, deliberate and insightful, “The Mirror of Ink” certainly asserts to its readership a particular set of lessons and imperatives but, as the title implies, there is a complex and nuanced ambiguity to the content of Borges’ short story. The title of this piece is something of an oxymoron. A mirror is by nature a pure reflective surface. Ink, conversely, is muddled and opaque. A mirror of ink seems…

John Steinbeck a famous writer in the early to mid 1900’s is famous for books such as The Grapes of wrath, Of Mice and Men, and Cannery Row. All of these books are about different things, but they all have one thing in common. Symbolism is the main concept in each book. In Mice of men he uses symbolism such as candy's dog, the mice, and the dream farm. Candy’s dog represents the fate that all people and living things come to. One day we are all going to grow old and sooner or later outlive…

Constructing my portfolio and building my journal on Edna St. Vincent Millay has been a fascinating journey. I have been able to learn about one of the most influential writers of the 1920's, and put myself in her shoes through the one passion we share the most, writing. I believe overall my history portfolio was fairly well constructed. The part I am most proud of was the Political, Social, and Economic Change graphic organizer. I spent a great deal of time on it and talked to my grandfather…

In many classic stories, the idea of romance is a common theme. This theme, in many stories, affects the story, the characters, and the behaviors of said characters. Two such stories that revolve around this theme are William Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights’, and both are considered classic stories. However, the relationships in both stories end very differently due to how love is approached by the characters. Love also has different meanings in the…

“At last - at last! - I stand upon the spot where seven years since, I should have stood…” (Hawthorne 119). The reputations of the characters in a novel are determined by not only their actions, but also by their surroundings and their physical appearances. These circumstances can often influence the way the reader views a character. Within a novel, these specific circumstances serve as symbols to show a conflict within the character’s heart and mind. In a novel like The Scarlet Letter, written…

Similar to The Rorschach Test – a famed psychological inkblot test that means different things to different people – Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts can be interpreted in a number of unique ways. It tells a purposely ambiguous, experimental, and daring story that forces readers to question their preconceived notions between knowledge, love, identity, and insanity. The Raw Shark Texts is a flawless example of how emotional trauma triggers psychosis, as well as how losing a loved one disturbs a…

“My stomach kind of fell as I felt how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.” (Updike) this is the very last sentence in A&P by John Updike, it emphasizes the consequences when you let Id, and ego get too far and when your superego starts to kick in. In this short story psychoanalytic criticism is highlighted, It focuses on a work of literature as an expression in fictional form of the inner workings of the human mind. The theories about psychoanalytic criticism were…

Doina Musat English 254, sec: 003 12 October 2017 The Hound of the Baskervilles: Element of Surprise Arthur Conan Doyle is widely recognized as one of the most thrilling adventure novelists during the Victorian era. Through his use of linear writing style and various literary techniques, Doyle is able to captivate the world with his famous Sherlock Holmes novels. In one of Doyle’s novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, he is able to instill the sense of adventure for the reader to follow…