Essays on Character

The defects of the general psychological characteristics, behavioral traits, and emotions of humankind all impact a society. In William Golding’s allegory “Lord of the Flies”, a group of schoolboys stranded on an empty Pacific island make way into savagery because of humankind flaws. Golding asserts...

In Thomas Hardy’s tendentious Victorian novel, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy uses a format akin to that of a tragic hero to critique the double standards of Victorian society. His heroine, Tess, challenges Victorian standards by maintaining her innate purity and refusing to be defined...

Love is a subjective and special word to each individuals. Each humans has their own thoughts and notions about love. This intense feeling of affection and bond can be the most incomparable and priceless state that one can ever be in. However, there is a...

Dogberry is a secondary character found in William Shakespeare’s comedic yet dark play Much Ado About Nothing. His character may be easy to overlook along with his comedic blubbering as simply another method of Shakespeare’s to provide relief in a play that rolls downhill as...

The name of the book I would like to write, share and review is unresolved issue. It is an interesting story. It is family and relationships and child abuse story. This book was publishing in 2010. The name of the author is Patrick L. Brooks....

Toys have long roots in local folk cultures and crafts, and regional and national traditions of toy and doll making have long reinforced ethnic and local identities in children. But the construction of modern childhood over the past century especially has paralleled the decline of...

Social experiences are, be that as it may, something other than events for perception and comprehension. We experience and express feeling when we collaborate with others and arranging is positively no special case. Perception is the procedure by which people associate with their condition, by...

It is important to have a single data system in my industry that can collect and distribute data when needed. When I look back at the project I started around the deposit system. A deposit is a write up to the office that administration uses...

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, “‘free spirits’…do not exist, did not exist” but “could one day exist” (18). Mr. James Duffy, the protagonist of James Joyce’s “A Painful Case” in Dubliners, has characteristics similar to that of Nietzsche’s theoretical overman. Nevertheless, although Duffy appears to live...

In the many stories, tales, and adventures that we have read so far, there have been multitudes of borders crossed by a variety of characters. All of these characters thus far crossing said borders have had a different intention, goal, or motive that theyare trying...

Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for portraying characters whose past largely affects who they are and how they act in the future, and The Blithedale Romance is no exception. The interesting thing about The Blithedale Romance is that much of the characters’ past is not known...

Both C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea tackle the idea of the child-protagonists having to go on a type of journey to defeat their respective foes and partaking in a search for their self-identity...

Strength is the courage you muster to do even the things that seem impossible. Every choice in life is based on previous experiences that determines your destiny. It always brings me back to my childhood when visiting a dentist was my biggest fear. I still...

The Sympathizer’s main character, is an unnamed half-French and half-Vietnamese spy. The main character is an aide-de-camp to the general in the Special Branch, the central intelligence organization of the anti-Communist South Vietnamese Army. The narrator is shown as a trusted member of the generals...

Know Your Character’s Features Do you know what characterizes your character’s features? Or are you drawing generic eyes, noses, and face shapes? This first part doesn’t require drawing skills, only being able to really see them in your mind’s eye. It’s perfectly okay, in the...

Chapter two of Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. discusses moral codes and how leaders develop their own. Badaracco uses the story Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe to illustrate his message. The story centers around the leader of an African tribe named...

An ideal person is ideal in respect of physical and emotional balance, behavior and attitude, moral values, personality. The combination of all these fine characteristics is very rarely found in any person in practical life. Being healthy, being well behaved, and having moral values are...

Virtue Ethics and Moral Character Virtue ethics suffer from the danger of relativism and too much consideration of an individual’s circumstances. By definition, virtue ethics is the focus on character and an interest in the individual’s life. A person who follows virtue ethics strives to...

The roaring twenties. A period of economic growth and a prime time for the realization of the American dream. Many people chose to party and buy many material possessions. The Great Gatsby is of no exception to this stereotype and is actually located in the...