ENGL&101 – English Composition I
Sample Conclusions
Sample Conclusion #1
It seems we can really only speculate as to what Shakespeare is trying to say about life
in King Lear. There are no religious morals or Elizabethan motifs jumping out at us like handy
crutches. Perhaps Shakespeare is trying to convey in Lear an inner human dignity in suffering.
Lear, the exalted, suffers with the common. He shares with all of his brothers the ability to
suffer. Suffering is his bond, his ability to feel the pangs of rejection, fear, and total
disillusionment. Lear, who has “ever but slenderly known himself,” achieves a spiritual stature
in death denied to him in life.
Sample Conclusion #2
Historically man has felt more passionate about religion than almost anything in the
world. Pilgrimages have been made, wars have been fought, and lives have been lost in its
name. It is perhaps the oldest worldview in existence. After all these centuries we should be
able to have honest discussions about our beliefs and their significance and bring people to our
faith by expressing the joy and enrichment it brings us. We see through the writings of Hughes
and Ericsson the damage lies can do when used in religion; a church that practices the honesty
it preaches will be full of people who have faith in its teachings rather than fear of its lies.
This is the conclusion to the same essay as Sample Introduction #3.
Sample Conclusion #3
Motley is a rare success when compared to other cultural contributors of the Harlem
Renaissance; he was given opportunities that—coupled with his ambition—and perhaps luck,
allowed him to rise above racial prejudice. His obsession with skin tone was no more or less
innocuous than the white crowd’s with American black art. He immersed himself in the allure of
the night with such progressive candor that his painting reflected not the devastation inflicted
by Jim Crow laws or the Ku Klux Klan in America, nor the sympathy granted to black expatriates
in France, but rather the defined absence of arbitrary stereotypes. His decision to complement
his convictions with a cross-societal attraction to an artistic revolution helped give meaning to
the word “movement,” as pieces like “The Jockey Club” inspired generations to press forward
beyond discrimination and abandon ignorance in their wake.