Category: David Foster Wallace

Introduction: David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, “This Is Water,” challenges the conventional ways of thinking and prompts the audience to examine the unconscious patterns that govern their lives. This critical essay delves into Wallace’s profound insights, dissecting his examination of consciousness, empathy, and the importance of choosing how we perceive and interpret the world around…

Introduction: David Foster Wallace’s essay “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage” explores the intricacies and controversies surrounding the usage and interpretation of the English language. This critical essay delves into Wallace’s arguments, examining his insights on language, democracy, and the ongoing conflicts over linguistic norms. Body: Language and Power: Wallace highlights the…

David Foster Wallace opens the speech with the fish anecdote to introduce the subject of discussion to his audience(college students); knowledge is not measured by education alone, rather acknowledging ones surroundings. The overall effect of the line This is Water demonstrates the basic realities that are overlooked in life. Wallace repeats this line twice to…

Who is Good People? Society has a general idea of what makes a person good: selflessness, righteousness, moral uprightness, and so on. The definition of good deviates from this basis when it comes to subjective perceptions of which morals are good or bad. What we define for ourselves as good or bad is either taught…

Project One Outline 1.) David Foster Wallace, Keyon College Commencement Address It is important to view the world around you not just as it pertains to you, you are not the center of the universe. Do not live your life on auto-pilot because it will lead to a sense of dread for everyday activities that…

In Heaven, everything is fine. – Eraserhead Someday, I wish upon a star Wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where trouble melts like lemon drops High above the chimney top That’s where you’ll find me – Somewhere over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz Whilst the two films I shall be…

In his essay Tense Present, David Foster Wallace carefully examines and unsparingly praises the rhetorical strategies employed in Bryan A. Garners A Dictionary of Modern American Usage (ADMAU). In doing so, he exhaustively rebuts the logical basis of descriptivist ideology (namely, the sixties-era rejections of traditional authority and traditional inequality) and emphasizes the importance as…

Main keywords of the essay: David Foster Wallace, commencement speech, analysis, two young fish, old fish, This is Water Essay characters: David Foster Wallace, old fish, two young fish Concept: Inspirational Speech, Essay Size: 959 words, 3 pages. This example is going to analyze the main ideas, and life lessons that are contained in commencement…