1. In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”, the man character, Goodman Brown, comes across a strange traveler whom he encounters in the woods late one evening. This man turns out to be the devil. Hawthorn’s description of the strange traveler’s staff, which “bore the likeness of a great black snake” (Hawthorn 94), foreshadows the identity of the man Goodman Brown is meeting. Furthermore, the Devil’s identity is fully revealed by Goody Cloyse, who screams his name after she is touched by the serpent’s tail. Upon Brown’s initial encounter with the devil, he learns that his father, grandfather and a number of other Church going people in New England have also encountered the devil throughout their lifetime; to which the devil
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In “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, Emily Dickenson attributes a number of humane characteristics to her personification of death. Dickinson describes death to be both “kindly” (Dickinson line 2) and knowing of “no haste” (Dickinson line 5). These developments present the character of death as something that one might consider peaceful or relaxing. This due to its positive disposition and leisurely timing. Additionally, these are qualified by the presence of immortality. Because death is forever a destiny of all who live, it has no hurry to get things done. Thus, death is granted the luxury to take on the peaceful essence of a carriage …show more content…
Through his illustration “The world is too much with us”, William Wordsworth criticizes the materialism we engulf ourselves in, leading to a skewed apprehension of God creation. Wordsworth writes “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours” (Wordsworth lines 2-3). He states first our tendencies of getting more and spending more, a means of fueling idolatry in our own lives by treating material items like a god that dictates who we are and what we are worth. He goes on to say that we are not using our own time in the way which man was created to do so; according to the Genesis account, man was created to dwell on earth and care for it, not became distracted by things created by man. Lastly, he makes the claim that man is undermining the beauty of creating. Instead of being left in wonder over the awesomeness of God’s creation, man fixes his mind on things which are not edifying and distract from God.
6. In Leo Tolstoy’s “The death of Ivan IIych”, Ivan’s colleagues are more concerned with their own carrier than his death. The narrator directly states, “So, on hearing of Ivan IIych’s death, the first thought of each of the gentlemen in the room was of the effect this death might have on the transfer or promotion of themselves or their friends” (Tolstoy 281). This developed the shallow, strictly work related relationship which men have with one another. In addition, Tolstoy’s diction supports this idea when he refrains from referring
In “Because I Could not Stop for Death”, Emily Dickenson attributes a number of humane characteristics to her personification of death. Dickinson describes death to be both “kindly” (Dickinson line 2) and knowing of “no haste” (Dickinson line 5). These developments present the character of death as something that one might consider peaceful or relaxing. This due to its positive disposition and leisurely timing. Additionally, these are qualified by the presence of immortality. Because death is forever a destiny of all who live, it has no hurry to get things done. Thus, death is granted the luxury to take on the peaceful essence of a carriage …show more content…
Through his illustration “The world is too much with us”, William Wordsworth criticizes the materialism we engulf ourselves in, leading to a skewed apprehension of God creation. Wordsworth writes “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours” (Wordsworth lines 2-3). He states first our tendencies of getting more and spending more, a means of fueling idolatry in our own lives by treating material items like a god that dictates who we are and what we are worth. He goes on to say that we are not using our own time in the way which man was created to do so; according to the Genesis account, man was created to dwell on earth and care for it, not became distracted by things created by man. Lastly, he makes the claim that man is undermining the beauty of creating. Instead of being left in wonder over the awesomeness of God’s creation, man fixes his mind on things which are not edifying and distract from God.
6. In Leo Tolstoy’s “The death of Ivan IIych”, Ivan’s colleagues are more concerned with their own carrier than his death. The narrator directly states, “So, on hearing of Ivan IIych’s death, the first thought of each of the gentlemen in the room was of the effect this death might have on the transfer or promotion of themselves or their friends” (Tolstoy 281). This developed the shallow, strictly work related relationship which men have with one another. In addition, Tolstoy’s diction supports this idea when he refrains from referring