Essays on Suffering

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Mr. Dimmesdale’s greatest secret is his sin of adultery with Hester Prynne. Mr. Dimmesdale feared that his soul could not bear the shame of such a disclosure because of his status as an important moral figure in society. As a result, he keeps his identity a secret as Hester…

Emmanuel Levinas “Useless Suffering” Emmanuel Levinas begins this excerpt by discussing the phenomenology of suffering. He has many definitions for the concept of suffering such as something that is passive or evil or a “senseless pain”; however he refuses to acknowledge at any point reasoning behind this concept. The title of the essay really begins…

Analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin What is one to make of the city of Omelas? It is a fantastical place so transcendental that the author herself struggles to properly detail its majesty. Omelas has everything— it is beautiful, technologically advanced, and bears no need for organized religion….

A Doll House is a play by Norwegian poet Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen devoted his entire life to the theater. Ibsen is said to have changed the history of the stage. Henrik Ibsen was born March 20, 1828, in Skien. Around 1851 Ibsen accepted the position of theater poet at the National Theater. He was there…

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…

The meaning and purpose of an individual’s life could be found in the most unexpected situations. This adage is greatly applicable in the life experiences and works of Viktor Frankl. In his book entitled: “Man’s Search for Meaning”, he narrated his experiences and the different obstacles that he went through inside a concentration camp at…

Epicurus was a great philosopher that founded the Epicurean belief. He was born in 341 B.C. and met his demise in 270 B.C. He was an advocate for seeking out carnal desires; however, he also knew the significance of experiencing pain in life. Without suffering, people would indefinitely take everything for granted. Epicurus had a…

A Comparison between the Normal Aging Brain and a Brain Suffering from Dementia Introduction      As a person ages, most of his body organs start to lose their normal function. Aside from physical changes such as growing white hair, developing facial lines, and increase in prominence of the veins, the aging person also experiences several…

Human agony is cosmopolitan and ineluctable. When there is joy. there is pain waiting to go on. When there is hurting. an single ever tries to get away it. Worlds are faced with adversities in life. and along with those adversities come emotional hurt and hurting. Humans attempt to understand the logical thinking for enduring….

Poetry Analysis Paper Emily Brontë, born in Yorkshire, the fifth child of six children. Growing up, she always had a keen interest in writing poetry. With her collection of different poems, “At Castle Wood” was one. In Brontë’s poem, “At Castle Wood,” she establishes a sorrowful theme through the use of imagery, Brontë’s tone of…