Category: Desire

In literature, Desire is often manipulated by writers and poets in order to build their characters and story, as can be seen in Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and Donnes 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…

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 its still a widely discussed and debated topic, that is popular in literature. Odysseuss adventures in Homers epic poem, The Odyssey, portrays his idea of…

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…

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…

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…

Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre created quite a stir when it was published, under a false male pseudonym, in the mid 1840s. 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 Janes actions throughout the Victorian Era. From orphanhood to…

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…

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…

In Molly Peacocks 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…

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,…