Essays on Regret

Since the beginning of his existence, man has embarked on an endless pursuit of self improvement, domination, and most tragically, forbidden knowledge. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, protagonist Victor Frankenstein’s ambitious desire to conquer man’s greatest fear, death, leads him down a road of overwhelming…

In a poem called ‘Birches’ by Robert Frost, the speaker, an old man is looking back on his life and trying to accept the fact that he is dying. He feels as though he has gone through life without living his life to the fullest….

Regrets I had my first kiss when I was fourteen. As many first kisses are, it was quick and painfully awkward. I fell hard for the boy who kissed me, which is pretty typical behavior of an insecure and naive fourteen year old girl. Unfortunately,…