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This paper discusses how T. S. Eliot's works speak both frequently and eloquently of both personal and global despair. It is not until later in his writing career, however, when he has matured as a person and as a writer before hope becomes an aspect of that element of despair. The paper further discusses how this sense of hope comes with the return to some degree of personal comfort on Eliot's part.

From the Paper
"T.S. Eliot's works offer a compelling vision of the nature of despair. This despair is evident on a personal level, as in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and on a global level, as in "The Wasteland." Yet his Quartets, particularly "East Coker" and "Little Gidding" speak of hope that can arise from the question of "what might have been" and the overwhelming presence of despair. It is interesting to note that as the decades progress, Eliot's works move from an internal examination of despair, to the confusion and horror that accompanied a post-World War I world, and, finally, to the hope that began to develop in the despair that was World War II. Is this change simply the work of a maturing author? Or has Eliot's point of view been shaped by a changing worldview?"

Tags:eliot, despair, poetry

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By analyzing the theme of despair in Dostoyevski's "Notes from the Underground", we can see how despair plays a part in the meaning of existentialism in the story and dictates the central axis of feeling about the philosophy in the book.

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This paper describes and analyzes the psychology and circumstances of the German Jews during and before the Holocaust as explained by Marion Kaplan in her book "Between Dignity and Despair".

Tags:german, jews

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This paper discusses the issues of the so called 'golden years' and Erikson's last stage of life referred to as integrity vs. despair. According to this paper, some people look at retirement age as the golden years where they can enjoy life without having to work or worry about children, while other seniors view life with despair. It is important to think ahead and plan for the golden years and this can include traveling around the world, taking care of one's health, and even getting involved in the community such as tutoring.

Tags:elderly, life, satisfaction

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In this paper, the wintry images of despair and negativity are all present in three poems analyzed here by Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, and William Shakespeare. By focusing on the specific symbolic and metaphoric use of winter as a negative and despairing environment, the paper explains, these authors create powerful images that are physical and mental in their descriptions of various human behaviors and life events.

Tags:negative, poetry, cold, season

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The author states that despite critics' sometimes negative reviews, Hemingway was a major American writer, a winner of the Noble prize who could claim literary greatness. He continues that many of Hemingway's works are classics of American literature. The selected reviews refer to some of these classics. The author writes that Hemingway's ability to capture the essence of the despair and desolation of his generation is his major achievement.

From the Paper
"Although critics have offered praise and blame for Hemingway's writing, raved about successes, and panned failures, the consensus must be that he is a major American writer who can claim literary greatness. In 1925, when he was not yet twenty-six, his first short story collection, In Our Time, was reviewed in The New York Times. An anonymous critic described his prose as "lean, pleasing, with tough resilience," "fibrous," "athletic," "fresh," "hard," and "clean," as if an athlete, not a book, was being reviewed. Hemingway's style was so different, that new ways had to found to describe it. Hemingway's 1961 New York Times obituary echoed the early review, describing his "lean and sinewy prose," and his "laconic, understated dialogue"."

Tags:literary, critics, american, writer, noble, prize, between, wars, generation, realist, narrative, voice

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The paper examines three short stories by Ernest Hemingway; "Soldier Home," "Way You l Never Be" and "In Another Country" and discusses the general theme which unifies them. The paper then proceeds to outline how four critics view the central thesis of this paper. The paper explains that they mainly see that nihilism and despair bind together all three stories and how the authentic Hemingway exists in these writings. The paper discusses whether they agree in the main, or disagree with the above thesis.

From the Paper
"Perhaps no other American writer - certainly not in the twentieth century - produced more insightful and provocative work about the ravages of war than Ernest Hemingway. The following paper will advance the thesis that Hemingway, while he may have sought to project a hyper-macho image, was really deeply insecure, introspective and profoundly suspicious of the macho posturings of warfare. To put it another way, while Hemingway's personal life seemed to valorize machismo and "manly" pursuits, his writings (which are deeply influenced by personal experience) cleave to a different view. Chiefly, his writings depict the most brutally masculine pursuit of all - warfare - in a resoundingly negative way and reveal also his own inward contempt for the masculine, martial conventions and paradigms of his time."

Tags:ernest, hemingway, literature

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This paper reveals the psychological struggles of American slaves . It captures the descriptions of emotional suffering in each of the three works of Douglass, Equiano and Jacobs.

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This review discusses the role of Macbeth as a tragic hero as opposed to a true villain. The feelings of the reader are analyzed as sympathetic toward Macbeth instead of disdainful.

From the Paper
"In the play by William Shakespeare that bears his name, the hero "Macbeth" emerges as tragic hero, not a villain. This is not because the play is called "The Tragedy of Macbeth." Rather it is because the play's action is driven by the moral failure of the central character rather than the horror the viewer feels at the murder of Duncan by the central character. The tragedy is not that Duncan is dead; it is that Macbeth becomes a tyrant. (5.6.8)"

Tags:villain, hero, tragedy, duncan

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A researched and analytical essay exploring the imaginative literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The essay includes an introduction before exploring the text, including a look at social milieu, literary influences, and the existence of magic realism in "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The writer continues with a review of the literary devices used in the novel, as well as characterization and finally provides a conclusion of the themes.

From the Paper
"The lyric, imaginative literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez perfectly captures the essence of the human psyche and all of its conflicting emotions. Garcia Marquez has a firm grasp of both fantasy and psychology and utilizes the technique of magic realism in order to present the dichotomy of illusion and reality and reveal the varied emotions that this dichotomy entails. Garcia Maquez also explores the psychological ramifications of prolonged solitude in many of his literary works, and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", his most famous novel, represents the culmination of this theme in reference to the contrast between fantasy and reality. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Gabriel Garia Marquez masterfully fuses his rich ethnic heritage with a vast repertory of literary devices and characterization techniques in order to relate the tragedies of the Buenda clan to his central moral thesis that psychological solitude destroys ones perceptions of reality and ultimately leads to sorrow and despair."

Tags:american, buendias, hundred, latin, literature, magic, realism