Desire

Father knows best. But what if his advice and wisdom is ill-advised? What if dad only has his best interest at heart? In Shakespeare 's tragedy, Hamlet, the ghost of the dead king appears before his son, Hamlet, and says, “Revenge this foul and most unnatural murder...Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her,” (I.v.25, 86-88). The ghost gives Hamlet the leverage to act impulsively and avenge his death by killing his uncle,…

Two distinguished authors, Richard Rodriguez and Lucille P. McCarthy, discuss important aspects of reading and writing throughout their essays. Rodriguez’s “The Achievement of Desire” and McCarthy’s “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum” emphasize lessons and teachings related to reading and writing. With this being said, both similar and different ideas are discussed by Rodriguez and McCarthy. First, one main similarity includes the idea that one must…

In the film, whatever happened to baby Jane, Jane went insane not only because she took care of her sister for such a long period of time, but because she was unable to follow her dreams. Since Jane was so preoccupied taking care of Blanche, she was not able to continue her acting career, which made her into a bitter alcoholic. It drove her mad knowing everything she has done for her sister had been for nothing because Blanche did not even appreciate all the years of Jane devoting her life to…

Swift however, does not intend us to emulate either Yahoo or Houyhnhnm behavior, but rather to take the positive aspects which each portray, and dilute them into a compromise that befits the healthy functioning of a human being. Williams agrees that Swift is creating a novel whose moral is to say, “Passions and affections, carefully guided, are treated as necessary in creatures who are imperfect and interdependent” (Williams 286), and likewise the “Houyhnhnms, far from being a model of…

Narrative Desire, Gregory Currie argues that an agent who desires some X in the imagination may be slanted to longing X in reality rule. This incorporates, however is not constrained to the imagination energy required to take part in film, writing and different fictions. Albeit regularly consider fictional desires as being both sound and tastefully refined, frequently view anecdotal longings as being undesirable in connection to this present reality. Along these lines, fictional desires may…

doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions. Tom has many desires, some he achieves, others he doesn’t. People have many desires. Their new desire becomes an addiction until they achieved it, they think they reached eternal happiness. However, their happiness doesn’t last too long. They end up getting “bored” of their once desire. Time passes and they forget about their previous desire and create a new one.…

The archetypal theme of desire repression is carried throughout the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson by providing channels for the reader to see the repression of desire without knowing the specific desire: archetypal settings, archetypal colors, and archetypal seasons. During the time period of the novella, science was very strict and undeveloped compared to how it is now. Due to that a boundary--that was not to be crossed-- was created and therefore…

burning desire can be the greatest motivator and the reason for one’s downfall. In the poem, “Thou Blind Man’s Mark” by Sir Philip Sidney, desire is the main theme, addressed in many ways and uses different techniques to exaggerate the complex attitude the speaker has towards desire. It is often personified as if it holds power over the speaker and he speaks of the hatred he has towards desire and uses a shift in the poem to exemplify an ironic tone. The poem starts off by personifying desire…

Trances and Dreams Complicating Desire & Blackness in Jean Toomer’s “Esther” Jean Toomer’s “Esther” is a bildungsroman text that follows the light skinned protagonist, Esther, through four distinct ages in three chapters. “Esther” is full of magical realism coupled with female desire which is often expressed through dreams, visions, and color. From the beginning, the reader can contrast Esther with Karintha, Louisa and other female characters in Cane. Esther is not desired by white or black…

attempts to examine the principles of death and desire. His theory is strongly centered on opposition to the existentialist idea that our inevitable death makes our life meaningless. To begin with, Williams makes an important distinction of the nature of desire by organizing the concept into two distinct categories. A conditional desire is something we look forward to in the future or as we get older, if we have enough time to do it. However, conditional desires do not give a person purpose or…