Essays on Despair

Macbeth throughout the novel portrayed a brave and fearless image. His constant boast about “being King” got to his conscience. The more he spoke freely of his power, the more conceited he tended to become. In Act V, Macbeth emphasizes his despair by his difference…

Every generation has to face the reality and choose a point of view, hope or despair, to plan for scarcity or to embrace possibilities. All societies, throughout history believed they had hit the borders of human achievement, but in every new era, the ones who…

There are four main reasons why a person will need to perform a spiritual cleanse. These reasons are spiritual dryness, spiritual depression, spiritual despair and spiritual distraction. These are very different situations and each requires a different approach to getting over them, however they all…

Kierkegaard’s Despair To begin to understand Kierkegaard’s argument one must first understand how Kierkegaard chooses to define the self. Kierkegaard attempts to accomplish this by showing the self as “a relation that relates itself to itself”. To explain this phrase, Kierkegaard describes this phenomenon as…

Final Examination Within the 1933 short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”, by Earnest Hemingway, an obvious theme can be observed. The idea of despair and insomnia are initially present, but it is the theme of nihilism that truly climaxes the story. Within the very brief,…

“Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada as it is in nada”(Hemingway 83-84). This is the mantra of the central character in Ernest Hemingway’s “A clean well lighted place” and it perfectly exemplifies the tone…