Essays on Desire

Memory and Desire both influences an individual’s reaction to events both past and present, therefore positioning one’s expectation of the future Both Memory and desire influence an individual’s response to the nature of events of the past and the present. Like the ebb and flow of the waves seen in 30 Years in the Wilderness…

HOW DOES ILL SEEN ILL SAID MEAN? In the eyes of a grade 12 student “Man is nothing else but what he makes himself.” A bold sentence spoken by none other than Jean-Paul Sartre, a man who some consider to be the father of existentialism. Existentialism is the belief that the world man makes around…

Nature Of sex education But he that shall scandal one of these little ones that believe in Me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea. ? Matthew 18:6 The nature of sex, itself, must first be…

In two of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems, namely Migrant Hostel and Crossing the Red Sea, he explores numerous intriguing concepts related to physical journeys. In the poem Crossing the Red Sea, Skrzynecki presents his thoughts on the immediate impact of a physical journey, while in Migrant Hostel, he delves into the aftermath and outcomes of a…

The Bhagavad-Gita begins with the preparation of battle between the two opposing sides: on the left stands the collected armies of the one hundred sons of Dhritarashtra and on the right lies the soldiers of the Pandava brothers. Warring relatives feuding over the right to govern the land of Kurukshetra, both forces stand poised and…

It doesn’t speak and it isn’t schooled, like a small animal with wettened fur. It is the blind instinct for life unruled, visceral frankincense and animal myrrh. It is what babies bring to kings, an eyes-shut, ears-shut medicine of the heart that smells and touches endings and beginnings without the details of time’s experienced part-fit-into-part-fit-into-part….

A king was touring his kingdom on his elephant. Suddenly he stopped in front of a shop in the market and said to his minister, “I don’t know why, but I want to hang the owner of this shop. ” The minister was shocked. But before he could ask the king why, the king had…

In “Desiree Baby” the writer Kate Chopin creates the image of racial prejudice, unequal gender roles and patriarchal society. It is a tragic story which portraits the brutal attitude towards the black people. The writer shows us the barbarous world where an innocent wife faces the cruel side of her husband because the child she…

The author, Richard Rodriguez, identifies himself as a “scholarship boy” in his writing, referring to a term he encountered in Hoggart’s book, The Uses of Literacy. Both Rodriguez’s self-description and Hoggart’s portrayal of a scholarship boy bear striking similarities, as noted by Rodriguez in his essay. He presents direct quotations from Hoggart’s book and connects…

“The Achievement of Desire” delves into the notions of self-identity and culture. Despite growing up in a household that embraced their Hispanic heritage, Richard’s aspiration to acquire knowledge, emulating his educators, caused him to disconnect from his roots. At an early age, Richard quickly recognized that learning necessitated solitude and a physical environment that he…