The Second Elegy

Mary Orr’s “The Wisdom of Eve” is a short, but very unpredictable story about a new life for Eve Harrington and about the individual she is perceived to be by her appearance however, the true identity of Eve that is hidden within is projected throughout the story. The narrator of this story opens up with “I shall call her Eve Harrington because this is not her name, though the Eve part of the alias is not unapt, considering the original’s snaky activities in a once-peaceful garden” (Orr 284). Eve Harrington made her way to stardom but in a very unusual way. Eve Harrington’s “idol” Margola Cranston and Cranston’s closes friend who narrates the story are of the few people who fell for Eve’s manipulative ways. Eve is describe an awkward and unappealing

Milton’s Paradise Lost has been praised as being the greatest English epic of all time, most stunningly in its author's depiction of the parents of humanity, Adam and Eve. How Milton chose to portray the original mother and father has been a focus of much criticism with contemporary readers. One of the main subjects of these comments is in reference to Eve, who, according to many, is a trivial character that is most definitely inferior to her mate. Nonetheless, many do not recognize that, after the fateful Fall, she becomes a much more evolved character. When Eve is introduced to the storyline of the epic, her character is shallow and extremely undeveloped, meant simply for display. She is quite firmly set as being inferior to her mate

And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!

“My heart almost burst with expectation. I looked again into the hall mirror, seeking Shirley Temple with her dimpled smile and perfect white-skin features. Bluntly reflected back at me was a helmet of black hair. I looked down. Jutting out from a too-large taffeta dress were two spindly legs matched by pair of bony arms. Something cold clutched at my stomach, made me swallow.”(Choy 41).

And sometimes not. Sometimes it is the artist looking into the mirror Painting a portrait of his own heart.

“One day I was able to get up, after gathering all my strength. I wanted to see myself in the mirror hanging on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.

Every person in their lifetime will encounter love. Love is a necessary evil in our lives. Using the moral lense to analyze the short stories “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson and “A Bolt of White Cloth” by Leon Rooke, we see that love cannot exist without evil. The characters of the stories all encounter evil through love by means of relationships, goodwill, as well as inanimate objects.

“One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me,” (pg. 115, Wiesel). The author’s message is revealing how someone should be able to overcome their struggles if they truly have confidence in themselves. Being that almost everyone goes through struggles at least once a day, the message about looking pass through the obstacles that seem really hard by thinking that it is achievable. It connects to everyone because of how people go through hardships in their life time varying in their age drawing out the conclusion that everything is achievable if only you believe that it is possible to do.

At the very end of the novel, Granger says they must build a mirror factory to take a take a long look at themselves. This remark recalls Montag’s description of Clarisse as a mirror in “ The Hearth and the Salamander.”

In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX),” the poem’s writer originally discredits the value of love, claiming that it is not essential because it does not support life; however, later Millay describes that love has some value.

One may have feelings for another; it is natural. When faced with rejection, however, the result is ruinous. In the poem, “Love Song, with Two Goldfish”, a goldfish was infatuated with another fish. However, the former was rejected because he “could not give a life beyond the bowl.” She rejected him because of the rash promises he had made, something that made the latter miserable. He expected joy, but was met with pain. Intolerance is common among relationships as most don’t see them as a pleasure, but more of a detriment. In the poem, “What Love Isn’t”, Ward reflects on her experience with love and how much it irritated her. She says, “it is weight and it is too heavy to feel good sometimes. It is discomfort.” Instead of the passion and happiness one experiences in a relationship, Ward had none of it and only went through pain. The pressure of such a romance gave her unneeded agony. While love is depicted as a passionate and beautiful experience, it is a painful one filled with rejection and

Maya Angelou describes what her life with her grandmother is like while constantly being discriminated against her race. She then found her father, and he leaves Maya and Bailey off to their mother’s house. There, the mother’s boyfriend rapes Maya. After suffering from psychological shock, Maya then moves back to her grandmother’s. As a teenager Maya gets nervous about her sexual identity and tries to discover it. Through these harsh times, the naïve and softhearted Maya grows to become a strong, independent woman.

Eveline was a female that was brought up in a poor area of Dublin, Ireland. As with all underprivileged areas around the world things were harder. There was a higher importance placed on morals and values. Eveline’s job was to care for her father and the house after her mother passed. A promise she made to her mother on her deathbed, and promises are to be kept. She also had two children that she oversaw caring for. Her responsibilities were routine, comfortable, and safe. There is nothing that the human race likes more than routine. There is a comfort that comes with knowing how things are going to go and

As Book VIII of John Milton’s Paradise Lost begins, the “new-waked” human Adam ponders the nature of the universe and the motion of the stars (ll. 4-38). When Adam has finished his speech, Milton takes the opportunity to describe Eve, who is listening nearby. We find Eve reclining in the Garden, but with grace, not laziness: “she sat retired in sight,/With lowliness majestic from her seat” (41-42). This “lowliness majestic” is the central phrase to understanding Eve’s character—she is both humble and glorious. Everything that beholds her is captivated by her “grace that won who saw to wish her stay” (43). Even in this paradise, every other beautiful creation is drawn to Eve. She walks

Eveline was a female that was brought up in a poor area of Dublin, Ireland. As with all underprivileged areas around the world things were harsh. There was a higher importance placed on morals and values. Eveline’s job was to care for her father and the house after her mother passed. A promise she made to her mother on her deathbed, and promises are to be kept. She also had two children that she oversaw caring for. Her responsibilities were routine, comfortable, and safe. There is nothing that the human race likes more than routine. There is a comfort that comes with knowing how