The Plight

Thomas Jefferson transcribed in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”, that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant - for every man is endowed with the same certain unalienable rights. This phrase independently formed the premise for modern society, its significance remaining highly present in a contemporary environment. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River adopts this foundation of society as a foregrounded theme, addressing the synchronous concern of social…

comrades. Hynes focuses on a private struggle and is able to provide a voice that transcends the obstacles of endured by one individual. Owens and Hynes use imagery, symbolism and allusions to convey their depictions of suffering. Owen’s portrays the plight of soldiers as zombies pushing through the trudge. Their suffering lies in their lack of purpose. This can be seen throughout the first stanza as he describes the soldiers as “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” (467). The simile…

(Orr). The Congress of Racial Equality was created in 1942 by James Farmer to establish a place where race doesn’t matter. This organization advocated for civil rights and the repeal of the “Jim Crow” laws through nonviolent marches (Congress). This plight for equality is present to create a just society (Sullivan). The economy also cannot grow if there is no ambition, or strive, which would result from the thirst for more equality…

Hightower expresses that one must find a way to integrate the past into the present and use hard-earned lesson from the past to move forward into a bright and successful future. Lena’s plight expresses that faith and gratitude can go a long way, but that being too passive can lead to inevitable isolation from the community. Perhaps most significantly, Joe Christmas’ story expresses that one must accept responsibility for his/her actions…

Poor individuals are rarely responsible for their own plight. Instead inequality in society is a key contributor to different levels of class in society. Poverty can have different meanings to different people and different sections of society. However, poverty is typically defined as having little or no money, possessions or means of support. Although it should be noted that there are different levels of poverty and people may fall in and out of poverty at various stages in their life. Poverty…

and other people of color.” (Wilson 135). In order to support this, Wilson separates his key points for this argument in three chapters, each on what he identifies as key aspects of African American’s current plight. These are “The Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty”, “The Economic Plight of Inner-City Black Males”, and “The Fragmentation of the Poor Black Family.” In each chapter, Wilson brings up various pieces of evidence supporting structure as the main issue that ill-affecting culture…

his fellow man in times of hardship. Using the bee to embody the plight of the lower class workers such as the Joads and the truck driver helps to define how helpless the migrant workers were to the whims of the rich. Thanks only to others in the same miserable situation, helping each other out that the workers…

Man is a social creature. He requires attention and adoration from his audience, constant engagement from his peers and wisdom and advice from his betters. Scientists have even discovered that in absolute silence, humans begin to feel a severe sense of discomfort. And perhaps that is why the human subconscious yearns for a raison d’être, an explanation to the events around them, and the hidden meaning to life itself. It even resorts to creating these fantastical stories when it is faced with the…

In Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”, Atwood changes her language many times throughout the novel. The language shows a form of power and it is a means of escape. Offred, the protagonist, uses her language as a tool to escape the plight of her existence. After reading this novel, it is obvious that atwood wanted to show the reader’s the different ways characters throughout the novel use their language to show their emotions. All throughout the novel, I noticed that atwood uses a…

differs between each individual, although, much of the audience may describe Hamlet as delusional and mad, others describe him as reasonable and normal. Hamlet 's tragic plights, from his father 's death to the accidental killing of Polonius, drive the apparent increasing irrationality of Hamlet 's actions. Through Hamlet 's tragic plights, Shakespeare examines the subjective nature of madness, irrational behavior in context of human nature, and madness as a sense of clarity and consciousness. …