Pessimism

Professor’s name: Professor Jenni Course: Eng 111 11/21/2017 Pessimism in 20th Century War Poetry There is often a current theme in works created in each time period. While the Romantic period took on the theme of imagination and emotion, the Victorian Era took on the theme of knowledge and reason. However, when the time came for the 20th century, the lives of the writers were forced to take on a new theme. This was the theme of pessimism. Many of the works were written around hard times…

There are two sides too the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a very optimistic view, as well as a pessimistic view. The town of maycomb is divided into two sides, which is the whites and the blacks, but there is also another two sides to this town, and that is the division between optimistic and pessimistic people. Now there is not an actual physical division between the optimistic and pessimistic people, but they are divided mentally. In almost all cases of this book whenever there is…

Pessimistic: (adjective) tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen (Pessimistic). Always believing and seeing the negative can take a toll on someone’s life; in fact, sometimes negativity doesn’t derive from a bad situation, but rather, the bad situation is brought on by someone having a negative attitude. In retrospection, I have seen my negative thoughts as not just existing, but growing as I was put through different situations. Throughout the years of my…

Robert O’Connor Concord High School New Hampshire Like many things in life, civil disobedience, is all a matter of perspective. Whether it be the Great Muhammad Ali peacefully opposing his selection for the draft or Rosa Parks literally sitting down instead of standing up for what is right on a bus ride home, each and every case of civil disobedience has its ups and downs. Though, when talking about basic human rights, there is no room to be neutral, and that is why peaceful resistance to laws…

Notwithstanding the verity that this act develops in pessimism, the Youngers recapture assurance and determination to chase their fantasy as it extends. Asagai recommences Beneatha’s gallantry and perception of triumph. His heart-to-heart of colonial Africa and his stated notion that the reigning authorities be compelled to cascade envisages the uprising that was to rise in those provinces in the decades subsequent to the 1950s. Asagai’s contention that when Beneatha appears in Africa she’ll…

Thomas Hardy’s poetry is known for its philosophical pessimism and its autobiographical nature. Because Hardy struggled with faith and the possibility of God in his life, he struggled with the same in poetry. However, due to his mental battle with life’s meaning, he was able to express his doubts and become a critically acclaimed poet. With a total of nine hundred and forty-seven poems, Hardy is one prolific poets of the twentieth century. In 1898, Hardy wrote the three-stanza iambic…

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin The main character of this story is Louise Mallard who has a heart condition. Louise learns that her husband Brently has been killed in a tragic accident and rushes to her room to grieve his loss. As Louise stares out her window and considers her future, she is struck by the realization that she has become free from the oppression her husband provided. Louise comes to accept that she is young and is strangely overcome with a sense of newly found independence.…

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766 – 1834) is a known as the prophet of population pessimism because of his theory about the population growth. He was the first economists that referred phenomena of economic crises as gluts. Although he was born in the prosperous family, his father Daniel Malthus preferred to educate him at home. When Malthus excelled in the studies of mathematics and literature, he continued his degree in Master’s of Art at Jesus College in Cambridge in 1791. He began to write his…

Ehrenreich in Bright Side: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America. I never thought about pessimism as ever having a positive connotation until Mr. Polking asked me about it. Pessimism doesn’t always have a negative connotation; it helps us in our survival and instincts. Ehrenreich agrees with this by saying, “Realism--to the point of defensive pessimism--is a prerequisite not only for human survival but for all animal species” (200). Humans and animals…

War, as many people know, creates massive casualties of humans, hatred among humankind, and overall, catastrophe. Many soldiers, who are also the leading generation for our future, are forced to take part in what could be known as “homicide” as they would go on to kill their enemies, most of them belonging to same age. It is no wonder that the horribleness and atrocity of war is a common theme among poets. The literary works of Owen, Jarrell, and Komunyakaa asserts that war causes severe damages…