Resentment

life. This story is very touchy though. 1) The story begins with a father’s dramatic rejection of his newly born son because of a birthmark covering the right side of the baby’s face. The boy grows up facing the extreme polarity of his father’s resentment and his mother’s devotion. However, this potential psychological trauma is not the focus of the narrative. As the story progresses, the narrator gives a rather standoffish tale of his whole life, which appears to be an ordinary life…

Blythe McGregor September 19, 2017 Kierkegaard/Nietzsche Exam 1. Kierkegaard gives several examples and variations on despair in Sickness Unto Death. All of these variations describe despair as a state in which one is failing to be the best human that one can be. They are falling short of their full potential. This full potential, according to Kierkegaard, can only be achieved if one establishes a relationship between the self and God. For this reason, only spiritual beings, humans not animals,…

Prior to World War II, as a result of great resentment and distress within the German community, Adolf Hitler gained authority. As his influence and power began to impact a the nation on a larger scale, he initiated his last step to exterminate the entirety of the Jewish population. The Holocaust is known as one of the most heinous events in the history of humanity. A small number of works have come close to conveying the brutality of the events that occurred during this time; however writers…

Identity can be defined as the composition of traits or conditions that establish one being from another. This concept of identity is prevalent in Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I just met a girl named Maria.” In it, Cofer recounts personal experiences of systemic racism, hypersexualization of the Latin woman, and casual misogyny. She then uses them to show how her identity was ultimately created despite and because of these forms of oppression. What makes this work…

How might the relationship between Mr. and Mrs. M. be affected by this situation? During difficult times like the case of Mr and Mrs. M, it can take a toll on couples due to the enormous amount of stress and decisions that need to be made, within a short time. Children who are ill or have a disability may require painful, invasive procedures, which cause parents stress before, during and after the procedures have been completed. (Drench, Cassidy, Sharby, Ventura, 2012 p. 213) My sister and her…

“Life ain’t always fair, but hell is living in resentment” this line brings a previous line to mind, which is “Had a bitterness when I looked back”. As I explained earlier, the definition of bitterness is “anger and disappointment at being treated unfairly”. In this part of the song Kesha says life ain’t always fair, which confirms that she feels this way, strongly enough to say it multiple times even. However she also says “hell is living in resentment”, showing that living your life dwelling…

society’s expectation regardless whether right or wrong. “We memorize shame’s numbing stench” (Xie) This can be inferred as Xie holding resentment against her parents for their complicit obedience into society’s ills. In addition, she holds the belief her parents are applying greater pressure on her to integrate culturally. Contrary to Espada, Xie holds resentment towards parents due to their…

The short story, “Birnam Wood,” by T.C. Boyle, explores a young man Keith’s fractured relationship with his girlfriend Nora from first person point of view. Keith reconnected with Nora by sending her “wheedling letters begging her” to come back to him, and she eventually obliged. They lived together in a rebuilt yet cramped chicken coop that had “creeping and greasy” mold on the corners, and no heating. Displeased with their living conditions, and faced with yet another dilemma -- seeing…

One of the fundamental beliefs of the post-Civil War period was that Indian culture was inferior to white culture, which led to boarding schools, reservations, and suppression of Indian culture. The Progressive Era was from the 1890s to the 1920s, and it occurred all over the United States. The Progressive Era was an attempt to fix the corrupted government, break up monopolies, and improve problems in society. The Progressives also thought that the Indians were problematic to white society. For…

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Barriers Before Self Realization A postpartum depression stricken narrator confined to a room for her recovery clad with yellow wallpaper embarks on a path which was not so well traveled in her day — the journey toward self knowledge and expression. The purpose of the passage is to show the narrator beginning to understand the ways in which societal constraints prevent her self realization. She is first inspired by children who are free of these…