Essays on William Hazlitt

Humans are made up of a complex system of reasoning and emotions, that drive their activity through everyday life. Every decision that one makes can be traced back to how one feels, his or her emotions. As shown in William Hazlitt’s essay, he believes that...

Each and every day, people encounter many hardships and adversities that inflict agonizing pain and sorrow. Misery and suffering linger with people’s minds, with little to no chance of recovering. Laughter however, provides relief from these types of feelings. Although forgetting pain and tragedy is...

Doppelgänger or Delusion? One of Borges’s many obsessions was doubles – the idea of meeting yourself. Borges uses doubles to contrast himself against things and people that he is not or explore the things that he is. Norman Thomas di Giovanni explores it in detail...