True Feelings Essays

  • The Feeling of True Love

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    The Feeling of True Love A palpable feeling in the air, anxiety for the babies to be born. As a little head starts to appear, it seems just like a phantasm that the babies are arriving, to the many people watching this birth. As the first baby appears, the new mother starts crying, so happy to have a new little girl to welcome into this world. Then as she unwillingly hands her new daughter to the nurse

  • The Meaning of Smoke

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    unsaid. Such is the case in Chris Avellone's, smoke, which tells the story of two friends who have a good relationship until one speaks the truth that both had been hiding. The smoke in the essay can be looked at as a veil that is concealing the true feelings of the two characters. The setting, which is in a smoke filled bar, can be looked at as a secret hide away that the two friends go to. It is when Kyle starts to bring what is really going on that the conflict starts. When the story starts, the

  • Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist

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    personal measures and prestige.  These people mask their true in intentions to acquire selfish desires.  In doing so they develop a theme of the discrepancy between the way things appear and their true realities. Hamlet, on the other hand, is an honest, moral individual trapped in this deceitful society.  Hamlet is faced with the dilemma to either lower himself to their level by utilizing deception, or leave wrongs unrighted by remaining true to himself.  In Hamlet, the theme of appearance versus

  • MDMA or Ecstasy

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    is not a drug created from nature, but from laboratories and garages. It can produce stimulant and psychedelic effects by flooding the brain with the neurotransmitter, serotonin. Some therapists believe that it helps people to bring out their true feelings in a peaceful and open manner. Nevertheless, the government classified it as a drug with no recorded medical use and high abuse potential. MDMA is now illegal in the United States. The increase in the dosage of Ecstasy is partially due to the popularity

  • Supportive Communication (mana

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    away from comments that become personal. Statements that become personal cause the person to resist your suggestions. ? Be congruent, not incongruent. Statements should reflect the true feelings of the one expressing them without angering or insulting the one that it is directed towards. Managers that hide their true feelings and opinions cause subordinates to believe that there is something hidden about themselves that the manager does not wish for them to know. Congruence in communication leads to

  • Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting Of Granny Weatherall

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         Granny’s name “Weatherall” reflects strength, survival, and endurance (Harder, 151). Her memories upon her deathbed reveal her to be strong, independent, Catholic, and Southern (Abcarian, 20). Her life was a struggle to avoid dealings with her true feelings (Brinkmeyer 12). Granny is not ready

  • edmundlear Edmund's Soliliquy in Act 5 Scene 1 of Shakespeare's King Lear

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    because Regan suspects they have been intimate. Edmund denies these accusations at the beginning of act five scene one, but states his true intentions in his soliloquy starting on line 55. Shortly afterwards at the beginning of act five scene three Cordelia and King Lear are captured and held prisoner. In the selection I chose, Edmund expresses his true feelings about the love triangle he and the sisters Goneril and Reagan are in. "... Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive: to take

  • Essay on the Metamorphosis of Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice

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    Darcy's arrogance shines through at the beginning of the novel in his first appearance at the Meryton ball.  Speaking of Elizabeth Bennet, he so snobbishly set forth that she was, "...tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me" (230).  His feelings of superiority to the people of the town lend Mr. Darcy to be judged as a man with a repulsive and atrocious personality.  The women, who had found him dashingly handsome at first appearance, deemed him a man unworthy of marriage because he offered

  • Effect Of Oppression In Yellow Wallpaper

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    him, but rather she hides her true feelings inside and suppresses her emotions around him, so he wouldn't send her away for more serious treatment. Even though her husband treats her with what seem at first as love, it becomes clear she is nothing more to him than a piece of property. Every time he talks to her, he asks her to get better for his sake and the children's, and only after mentions hers interests. He doesn't think that she has any normal human feelings or worries and attributes her

  • Exploring Identity and Time in Here, An Arundel Tomb and The Whitsun Weddings

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    everyday life that some people say lacks depth, however, unlike many other poets, Larkin does not always write the truth or the depth of his feelings. In many there is a voice, trying to convince its author of something that is usually quite evident or exploring itself but revealing only the surface. Why he is trying to convince himself and what are is true feelings present the real challenge and profundity of Larkin poems. The search for one's identity, combined for everybody in one's unique fantasies

  • Tragedy and Love Story in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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    their feuding parents. After reading Romeo and Juliet, apparently a tragedy, I would say that this story contains aspects of both a love story and a tragedy. The tale of two teenagers who fall in love at first sight and then marry, become true lovers and then risk it all for their love cannot surely be all tragedy. However, it is a tragedy, and has been called that for decades. I will discuss with you what makes this story a tragedy, and then what makes it a love story

  • Competition in Austen's novel Emma

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    competition for a reason; it is used in order for Emma to be able to see the truth within her. Without competition, Emma would have never regarded her true feelings. Competition brings out the most in people. It makes people act and react without putting thought into their actions; which brings out one's real feelings and/or real skills. This is true across the board. Competition is found in all walks of life from school, where you are competing within your class for the best grade, to sports were

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: Society’s Entrapment vs. Natural Escape

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    suspicions, and clouded by gossip. Where the truth may be unacceptable to them, it is substituted by things religion and authorities persuade them to believe. The scaffold ultimately represented guilt and shame. In the market place emotions and true feelings are suppressed and overwhelmed by the importance of reverence to Puritanism. On the other hand, the forest is a location where the truth is not forbidden, but embraced. After Hester's judgment on the scaffold, she and her daughter Pearl find refuge

  • Masculinity in Shakespeare's Macbeth

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    what she wants or accomplishes her evil goals. In the play she hides her true feelings and pretends to be a normal lady. However, her evil nature shines through her false face. This just proves that Lady Macbeth is like a rose. A rose is pretty and smells great but if one is not careful the thorns will prick the fingers.  Lady Macbeth appears to lose her sanity the night of Duncun's murder and cannot relate to her feelings or guilty conscience. She admits that "she could kill her only child just

  • The Power of Free Will in Milton?s Paradise Lost

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    Roosevelt once said, "Remember always that you not only have to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one." To be an individual means to act by choice and make decisions with free will enhanced by the power of knowledge. Only then are people true to themselves and to others. In Paradise Lost, Milton clearly conveys this concept of acting freely under God. He shows the reader that only with the freedom to choose do a person's actions become meaningful and sincere. This idea also helps Milton

  • Gothic Elements in A Curtain of Green and Death of a Traveling Salesman

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    Gothic Elements in A Curtain of Green and  Death of a Traveling Salesman In fiction, Gothicism is defined as a style that emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate. Eudora Welty makes frequent use of the grotesque in her work, often pairing it with elements of mystery, as in "Keela, The Outcast Indian Maiden." However, she usually deals with desolation as a separate element, as in "Death of A Traveling Salesman," in which the focus is placed on the lonely, fruitless existence of R.J.

  • Tolstoy's Philosophy of Art

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    "one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them" (10). He believes that art can only be defined as real by its ability to make the audience feel what the artist had intended to convey with his/her artwork. The feelings the artist intends to convey must also be sincere and true feelings based on personal experience, expressed to the audience in such a way that the

  • Young Goodman Brown: Immature Innocence vs. Mature Guilt

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    Young Goodman Brown: Immature Innocence vs. Mature Guilt In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne expresses his true feelings about the negative beliefs of the puritan religion through usage of expressive styles and themes, various characters, and objects within the story. Because the puritan religion was in affect during a very complicated and chaotic time known as the Salem Witch Trials many people, including Young Goodman Brown, would be shocked to discover that the

  • Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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    a cage" (Chopin 1). The caged bird at the beginning of the novella points out Edna's subconscious feeling of being entrapped as a woman in the ideal of a mother-woman in Creole society. The parrot "could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood" (1). The parrot's lack of a way to communicate because of the unknown language depicts Edna's inability to speak her true feelings and thoughts. It is for this reason that nobody understands her and what she is going through. A little

  • The Love Of Hamlet For Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet

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    without any reservations, one of Shakespeare's most mystifying plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled with many uncertainties relating to different issues behind the plot. The reader is left with many uncertainties about the true feelings of prince Hamlet. One question in particular is, did Hamlet really love Ophelia? This dispute can be reinforced either way, however I believe Hamlet was truly in love with Ophelia. Support for my decision comes from Hamlet's treatment towards Ophelia