Tess Gallagher

In the short story, “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and in the poem “The Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti the authors portray a tremendous amount of symbolism. “The Chrysanthemums” is a short story about a middle-aged woman named Elisa, who is married with no children and is very unsatisfied with her life. The poem, “The Goblin Market” tells a story about two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by goblins to eat the forbidden fruit they offer them. In the short story and the…

Power changes everyone's character. It may show the real person they are once they obtain power. In other cases the person will stay the same, the girls being accused had received such power and it changed their character. Power always brings out the good or the bad in someone’s character and it is a way to test your character having received such power. It’ll change you, mad with power or you will remain humble and not have changed for the worse. When you feel powerful, you think about the…

Stoke-d’Urberville, the antagonist and villain of Tess of the d’Urbervilles, authored by Thomas Hardy. Within this Victorian Age novel, a blossoming young woman by the name of Tess Durbeyfield finds herself in a sinister relationship with a malicious and cunning young man by the name of Alec d’Urberville. Although he is mistaken to be her cousin, to which he has the surname of the Durbeyfield’s ancient relatives, the d’Urbervilles, Alec is, in fact, unrelated to Tess. From the inception of their…

Shakespeare in Hamlet act V scene 2 reveals many aspects of the human nature, along with the divinity which shapes the path of our journey. Thus, Hamlet believes that things are meant to happen will be going to happen and no one can avoid it. Men create problems and make harmful plans for others, but there is a divine power which curves your path different than other’s plan, yet bad experiences created by others can make a tremendous mental impact on the person. In Act V scene 2, the beginning…

Imagine being taken from a luxurious home where you are treated like royalty into the middle of the wilderness, where you are forced to work long, hard hours, with no reward but surviving until the next day, where you will only do more of the same. The idea of living like this seems almost impossible. To survive, you would have to fundamentally change who you are. Yet this is the exact scenario that Buck, the main character, is placed into. In Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild, Buck…

always align in order to secure a tragic downfall. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, some readers have scrutinized the events that transpire throughout the novel. They argue that the circumstances of Tess’s life were too “far-fetched” or improbable. However, when considering the novel beyond its minute details, it is clear that Hardy intended to write an effective social commentary. Although some argue that the incidents in Tess were implausibly coincidental, every event that occurred…

Wow! I can’t believe I’m here at Job Corps and I can really see my life changing. I can feel myself turning around. It feels like someone caught me and kept me from falling. Every since the accident on August, Twenty Fifth, Twenty Fifteen mu life jas been changing. That day was like no other day to me. But little did I know my like was about to change. There was this convient store down the street from my house that my brothers and I would go to some nights. Well, on this particular…

As a small kid, I have always look out the window of my parent’s car and just stared at all the different types of cars people drive. I was always fascinated with sports cars and how they differentiate so much to regular family sedans, which eventually over time lead to my interest of cars. Over the course of my life my interests in cars have lead me to different websites, car clubs, and even people to learn more information about different types of automobiles. Up until the beginning of my…

What is significance? Significance is something sufficiently great and important to be worthy of attention. It is something extraordinary that makes you see something a different way. It is markable and meaningful. Everyone has at least witnessed something significant and life changing once in their lifetime. Something life changing can be like losing a loved one or realizing something remarkable. There was a time in my life where I realized something significant and life changing. It was when i…

In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy portrays Angel Clare and Alec D’Urberville as polar opposites of one another. These two foil characters are put in very similar situations, but they behave in very different manners. Alec simply wants to be with Tess because of physical desires, while Angel truly cares for Tess in the beginning of the story. Hardy juxtaposes these two characters and the way they act in order to show how different they are. During this time period, there would have been…