Aspect of Human Experience

Aspect of Human Experience

Aspect of Human Experience Paper
ENG 125
February 16, 2009

Aspect of Human Experience Paper
English 125 has provided a variety of literature from a wide range of authors and topics. These authors and their works included a diverse makeup of social and cultural issues. Each of the author’s style of writing was similar and showed differences. However, the overall message of the author’s works related a message that connected the reader to each topic. The focus of this paper is to relate a human experience with three different works of literature read throughout the course study. These works will be from an essay, drama and short story. The authors in this research are Anton Chekhov, Langston Hughes and Tennessee Williams. All three authors are of different backgrounds but used similar approaches to relate their story to the reader. “Salvation” by Langston Hughes was based on facts. “Misery” by Anton Chekhov and “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen was merely fiction but produced real life situations that are faced by many people.
The topic disappointment will connect the human experience with each work chosen. These connections will explain the works context, literary devices and the way the author and reader created meaning from reading the text, concluding with how the individual experience shape interpretation. According to Dictionary.Com Unabridged (n.d.) the word disappoint is “to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of, to defeat the fulfillment of or to bring or cause disappointment.” Disappointment can cause one to experience a feeling of displeasure or distress; this can happen when a person is separated from his or her engagement during a particular event. Disappointment only happens mentally because the person feels pain, hurt and anger during disappointment (Gallozzi, n.d.). The literary works chosen are all connected by this one word called disappoint. In each of the literary works, the reader can assume that each character’s...

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