Misunderstood

right thing rather than think for themselves. Then he goes to the topic of being misunderstood when asking if it would be so bad to be misunderstood, he says “Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton.’’ He wants people to realize that even these people were misunderstood and look at what they have accomplished. It wouldn’t be so bad to be misunderstood as long as you trust yourself that’s all that…

Compare Essay John Gardner’s Grendel and Marry Shelly’s the Monster Just like you and me, we all have feelings. Weather we feel hungry, upset, frustrated, excited, lonely, or misunderstood. However, we sometimes people forget that even other beings have feelings. We aren’t the only ones who can feel lonely or misunderstood. John Gardner’s “Grendel” and Marry Shelly’s “Monster” are the perfect examples of how we go based off of what we see and not how the person or being is, someone great once…

Self-Reliance can be defined as a reliance on one’s own power, rather than those of others. This idea follows the Transcendentalist Movement; consequently, Ralph Waldo Emerson, a transcendentalist, was an advocate for self-reliance. Emerson defended the idea in an essay published in 1841 called Self-Reliance. In the text, Emerson effectively displays a need for self-reliance through the use of diction, syntax, and rhetorical devices to move his audience to practice self-reliance in their lives.…

Even though lots of people think pits are bad dogs they really are not. Pitbulls are the most misunderstood breed of dog. There have been reports of pit bulls brutally attacking innocent people, but it really is not the pits. It is the people that own them that are stupid. There has also been dog fighting with this breed that’s why pitbulls are so misunderstood. Pit bulls are awesome dogs. They are awesome dogs because if you like to take a jog take your pit bull with you. If you are tired and…

Are men and women simply misjudged or misunderstood? If they are, which gender has it harder? In our society there are stereotypes that shape what men and women do or what they should do. In the short story “The Metamorphosis” the sister of the traditional family tries to take care of the brother that turned into a bug. Men are judged a lot less on their appearance than women are. Women are simply misjudged more than men. In today's world there are lots of things that women must do to be…

Emerson makes a very valid point when he states, “Is it bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood” (Emerson 225). Emerson is making a point that the most brilliant people in the world were misunderstood in their lives so why is it bad to be misunderstood in the world. He is expressing that it is okay to have a…

short stories in my time. Some of them have well rounded characters, some of them have flat characters. Some characters in narratives are easy to understand, everyone knows everything about them, but, there a few stories where the protagonist is misunderstood. There is one character that sticks out among all of them I know. That character is Seymour Glass, the protagonist in “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”. This is also the character I will be focusing on in this essay. We know Seymour feels as…

because they both raise children for a living there also is a similarity between Arthur “Boo” Radley, The mysterious outcast living in the Radley house in To Kill a Mockingbird, and Celia Foote, the town outcast in The Help, because they are both misunderstood by other people, none the less there is a difference between Atticus Finch, The father of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hilly Holbrook, a white christian woman who…

However, these geniuses are not initially lauded and praised for their work; they are chastised, berated, arrested, beaten, and in the case of Socrates, put to death. The trials of misunderstood geniuses pose a crucial question to society: is the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and individuality worth the hardships of nonconformity? This question not only applies on the minute scale of a genius facing a strong opposition, like a government…

Although Speech to the Virginia Convention, by Patrick Henry, Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards all represent something different to their respective readers, they all define the role of the individual as believing in something in order to better the greater good and community. In Speech to the Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry states belief in patriotism and how fighting for this cause is for the greater good of the colonies.…