Essays on Character

The Bhagarad- Gita poem is one of those poems that entices and generates interest in the reader, causing them to continue reading in order to learn more. Arjuna, Krishna, and Sanjaya are the main characters in the story. In the poem, Krishna is the immortal God, Arjuna is the warrior,...

Raymond Carver's Popular Mechanics Popular Mechanics is a story about a man and a woman arguing about their son. Separation, challenges, tensions, and a lack of contact are all themes in this novel.The Setting The plot continues with an unidentified male unpacking in isolation as the woman watches. This predicts the separation...

One of Poe's works featuring the detective C Augustine Dupin is The Purloined Letter. Notably, Poe is credited with inventing and establishing the mystery fiction genre through The Purloined Letter and other stories of the same caliber. Notably, the Purloined Letter incorporates many elements that demonstrate the crime fiction genre....

An Antihero: Faust in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s Faust An antihero is a protagonist character in a given story that lacks the characteristics synonymous with a traditional hero, such as morals, bravery, and idealism. The antihero can often be depicted as doing the right thing, although this is often driven...

Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio Sherwood Anderson's novel Winesburg, Ohio was written in the early twentieth century. It is a series of 25 books that cover a wide range of psychological topics.Grotesque and Its Reflection Grotesque is a representation of bizarre human character distortions as well as exaggerated unusual characteristics. It contains the...

Miss Emily's Alienation Miss Emily, the lead character of William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily, fails to find her place in the world. There is no denying that 'A Rose for Emily' is a tale of mental and physical loneliness. William Faulkner depicts the mechanism by which individuals become...

Flannery O'Connor wrote the novel 'A Decent Guy is Hard to Find.' When writing prose, O'Connor follows the southern gothic style. Whether or not the narrator has lines or plays an important part in the creation of the novel, the American South becomes the primary character of the majority of...

An individual's decisions and behavior can affect the course of his or her life, and even the smallest of those actions can have a significant effect. Sue Monk Kidd's novel "The Invention of Wings" advocates the idea that a person's decisions and behaviors affect the course of his or her...

Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield are the two hobbit characters who experience the most significant changes in their outlook, behavior, and personality. Bilbo Baggins, the protagonist of The Hobbit, is humanlike and displays typical behaviors such as chewing pipes, hosting visitors, and consuming modern foods such as tea and cakes....

Comparing Two Tragic Works: Shahnameh - The Tale of Sohrab and Oedipus TyrannusSince literature is a common art form, many literary works have many parallels in terms of plots, vocabulary, and character traits of the characters. These parallels, though, are not apparent and can be traced largely to people s...

Tennessee Williams' novel Streetcar Named Desire Like many others, focuses on the main character with distinct traits and a special outlook on life. The novel centers on the life of Blanche DuBois, a hero who seems snobbish, lonely, and confused, among other attributes that depict her as an outsider.Being an outsider Blanche's...

Toni Cade Bambara s The Lesson Toni Cade Bambara s The Lesson is a tale told from the eyes of a teenage African American girl called Sylvia. Bambara employs the title character, Sylvia, and the schoolteacher, Miss Moore, as vehicles to express her message about African Americans...