Essays on Desire

Everyone has their own reasons for choosing a specific profession. My reasons my sound similar to others you have read today, but they aren’t. I chose teaching as my profession not for the common reasons; I like children, I want summers off, or any else...

“What do you truly desire?” I’ve been asking this question from anyone I can possibly ask for at least a few weeks now. Most of the time the answers I get are somewhere around living with a model to living a luxurious life. A few...

“What do you truly desire?” I’ve been asking this question from anyone I can possibly ask for at least a few weeks now. Most of the time the answers I get are somewhere around living with a model to living a luxurious life. A few...

After contemplating what career path was best suited to my skill set, I came across a video showing the problems with the world today which left an imprint in my mind. I wanted to help make a difference, no matter how little. After researching Chemical...

Many critics see Eliot’s “Wasteland” as a form of social criticism, exposing the alternating boredom and terror inherent in modern life. While these themes do recur throughout the poem, a greater subtlety of meaning arises with Eliot’s juxtaposition of classic religious texts against the modern...

My interest in economics was first sparked when I participated in the Student Investor Challenge where I built a portfolio of shares based on my analysis and research of financial markets. I learnt that incentives drive behaviour and that economists analyses this behaviour to assess...

Based on the latest research on passion, it is not really necessary that you find your passion because as humans, we are dynamic individuals and attaching ourselves to a lifelong pursuit of “one passion” can prevent our fulfillment due to a narrow-minded chase and obsession...

“The Women’s Theme” takes an important place in the creative heritage of American writers, appearing one of the markers of the historical and cultural process. Being one of the dominant themes of American literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it provides the...

Blanche is a character who has been conditioned by the society in which she was brought up, her background influencing her personality. Unhappy with her life, she is unable or unwilling to change it for the better. She prefers to retreat from reality into illusions...

How selfish so ever man be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. That’s what is...

In The Waste Land, Eliot utilizes women as a window to show the dissolution and distortion of love and desire. Eliot creates a progression from invitation, to violation, to automation through the use of three distinct female characters: the hyacinth girl, Philomela, and the young...

As individuals we show a progression of masks to others in acting roles, controlling others and arranging how we appear. We try to place ourselves in the best light possible while interacting with others. People pay a good sum of money to alter their looks...

In this dissertation, I will proceed with the analysis of the ideal desire fulfilment theory and the objective list theory to conclude that the latter is more plausible as a theory of well-being. In the process of doing this, I will clarify the key theories,...

In the “Narrative Desire” chapter of his larger work, Reading for Plot, author Peter Brooks discusses the different modes of desire that exist within a reader. He argues that these desires are the forces of momentum brought to a text that in fact structure plot...