Desire simply means a longing or craving, as for something that brings satisfaction or enjoyment. Desire simply means want. A strong feeling to possess something or having the yearning for some event to happen is desire. Our desires show our priorities which shape up the choices we make. Our actions should be based on the choices made in order to...
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“He appears to me, that one, equal to the gods the man who, facing you, is seated and, up close, that sweet voice of yours he listens to” Lacking the firm consensus present in the poem, Sappho’s Fragment 31 is one of the most complex poems to interpret. The narrator watches a man, seated across her beloved, and admires his...
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Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre created quite a stir when it was published, under a false male pseudonym, in the mid 1840’s. This novel introduced the idea of the individualize women and how feminism was shifting throughout this time. She explores the undermining sexual innuendos hidden in Jane’s actions throughout the Victorian Era. From orphanhood to marriage, she shows growth in...
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What makes a society civilized? This question has been asked for thousands of years but it can never be truly answered because of many conflicting opinions and influencing factors. Yet it’s still a widely discussed and debated topic, that is popular in literature. Odysseus’s adventures in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, portrays his idea of civilization as the ability to...
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In literature, Desire is often manipulated by writers and poets in order to build their characters and story, as can be seen in Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and Donne’s ‘The Flea’. However, much like how the former two pieces use desire to subvert what are commonly seen as more ‘powerful’ themes such as religion, desire itself can be subverted to...
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Introduction to Desire in 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Great Expectations' The obsessive nature of desire is explored within both ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Great Expectations’ with Fitzgerald and Dickens portraying this desire through: wealth, love and also self-advancement, within their novels. These concepts are devised throughout both novels in different ways. In ‘The Great Gatsby’, Gatsby desires to be wealthier...
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Augustine believes that God had intended for man to obey God and woman to obey both God and man. He also thought that God intended there to be a hierarchy between body and soul. The soul, being rational, moral and capable of understanding was to be the ruler of the body and govern the spiritual part of a human. Prior...
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Tennessee Williams was a profound author of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire. He portrayed a realistic outlook on the standard New Orleans life, in which both gender roles and social expectations defined the way world functions. With the everchanging roles that one has, the position one is in will never be the same as the one that they last...
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“The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter is a criticism of moralistic and pious ideologies surrounding sexuality and its repression expressed through the liminality of Little Red Ridding Hood, who, throughout the story, shifts from being the innocent, naïve girl to becoming the woman society fears the most- a powerful, enchanting, she-devil, witch. At the story’s conclusion, Little Red breaks...
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In Molly Peacock’s poem “Desire” she talks about the desire the human body has. She mentions many aspects of desire by using metaphors and personification. Desire is one of those things that ends up getting everyone into trouble at one point. This poem explains the reason why, it is uncontrollable and instinctual. It comes and goes without logical thought and...
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Understanding the distinction between affection versus desire can be very dubious. Particularly on the grounds that desire is the normal and first period of most sentimental connections and can last as long as two years (at any rate that is the thing that the specialists need to state). It's the principal period of 'affection' however it doesn't in every case...
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In the problem of free will, the higher order theory exists as an attempt to defend compatibilism. Even if all of our desires are derived causally from the laws of nature, some philosophers argue that we still have free will if we have the ability to form desires and the agency to act on these desires. Wanting to do a...
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