I Hate Myself

extremely slovenly; his features were lost in masses of shaggy hair that hung on his shoulders; and his eyes, too, were like a ghostly Catherine’s, with all their beauty annihilated“. (Bronte 119) Bronte emphasizes the true destructive extent of Hindley 's hate with the use of powerful diction that describes a image of a shattered shell of man full of nothing but bitterness and malcontent. Not only did his hatred destroy the beauty of his eyes,…

lead to many problems. Hate can be shown in different ways. Hate is a strong word and people can hurt others by their actions. The reason behind it is that people want to show feelings and emotions but they don’t realize that they contribute to and escalate to racism, violence, war, discrimination, etc. When one feels hatred, everything wrong that one does makes them believe they’re doing the right thing. Those feelings make one believe that vengeance is good and fair. Hate can hurt families,…

made the characters civilized for some parts of the play, but for the most part, they were social beasts. In Act I, Scene iv, Benvolio, Romeo, and Mercutio are wearing masks and are on their way to the Capulet’s party even though they are well aware that they were not invited. Benvolio and Mercutio notice Romeo…

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” This quote, by Nelson Mandela, reflects a recurring theme in “Funny Boy” by Shyam Selvadurai. Throughout the novel characters such as Radha Aunty, Jegan, and Arjie are ostracized, and belittled by society due to the hatred that lies within Sri Lanka at the time. When the characters are antagonized, they are taught to hate themselves, and often…

desire to conform to societal conventions: “‘It isn’t that at all,’ old Sally said. I was beginning to hate her, in a way. ‘We’ll have oodles of time to do those things--all those things. I mean after you go to college and all… There’ll be oodles of marvelous places to go to’” (133). Holden is “beginning to hate” Sally because he sees that unlike himself, Sally worries about conforming to social conventions. He hates her for her inauthenticity and characterizes her as another “phony”…

Finding Self, Whitman’s Way: The One Among the Crowd “The impalpable sustenance of me from all things, at all hours of the day; The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme-myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated, yet part of the scheme” (Whitman. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.). Walt Whitman was a graceful, yet outlaw poet that pushed the boundaries ink and paper. Whitman’s works were a journey of finding self through the natural world and his relation to the world, along with cleaver wording that…

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are two writers during the late 19th and early 20th century. They are often referred to the founders of American poetry. Both writers have many similarities and differences from each other, but neither of them can be imitated through their style. They have influenced many during and long after the Romantic era of literature. A common theme through each of their following poems is that some aspects of nature cannot be taught or learned, but only understood through…

“For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning”, this would be shocking to Whitman, because the amount of voices praising Whitman’s works has grown exponentially since his death. Walt Whitman’s works have gone on an intriguing journey from the time that they were first published to the current era. However, as time has passed Whitman has become to be known as a celebrated and innovative poet. Whitman versatility is seen by the thoughts of death, desolation of hearts, and…

“I celebrate myself.” Walt Whitman’s introduction into Song of Myself sets a distinctive tone for his writing. Whitman’s influenced American in many ways and the driving forces of this influence are disguised within the complexities of his writing. Whitman’s desire was for humans and specifically Americans to be in harmony with the universe, with themselves as individuals, and with each other as a nation and he used his writing to encourage this belief between fellow man. Encompassed in the…

conventional meter and rhyme schemes. As much as they differ in forms, they differ in their opinions of death and nature. Dickinson’s poems can seem contradictory to readers, but she writes from multiple angles as shown in her poems on death. In “Because I could not stop for Death–,” she portrays death as considerate because “He kindly stopped…