Ah yes, Nathaniel Hawthorne. He’s definitely one of my favorite writers and he makes such an impact in short-stories like an author can make with an entire novel.
First of all, “Young Goodman Brown” is such a chilling and creepy story, and if it was written today, you could probably find it highly ranked on CreepyPasta.com. Secondly, when I began taking a closer look, I saw Hawthorne’s clever use of symbolism. I particularly noticed this in his repeated mention of Faith Brown’s pink hair ribbons. Throughout the story, her pink ribbons are used as transitional cues of thematic changes. It may sound odd, but every time her ribbons are mentioned, it reminds me of those scene wipes/transitions in Star Wars-I can just picture her ribbons floating …show more content…
The scientist, Aylmer, loved his wife, Georgiana, but loathed her birthmark. If I personally knew Aylmer, I’d accuse him of being shallow. A birthmark? Really, Aylmer? A birthmark bugs you? Who are you? Austin Powers? – ( https://youtu.be/rc5G04nJecI?t=45s ). Aylmer particularly frustrates me because he seems to like a personification of the pressure and anxiety that social media causes. There’s this aura of perfection that lingers among many social media users that causes them to illustrate their life and/or body as being perfect. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a filtered photo, but there’s also nothing wrong with embracing ones …show more content…
I know she often secluded herself, but was this seclusion supposed to help her focus on her writings, or was she just depressed?
She definitely dealt with depression since it is evident in her poems and because she suffered through loss of loved ones.
Now, I don’t want to say that she was depressed because she never got married (since that takes feminism back a step) but think of the time she was alive; 1830-1886. Women couldn’t even vote yet; they didn’t have many rights, so raising and caring for a family was on most women’s agenda. Women were cared for by their husband or their fathers, and if a husband got sick of his wife, he could always just drop her off at a psychiatric hospital and never have to deal with again. However, also during this time, women were considered men’s property, so now the more I think of it, perhaps Dickinson chose not to get married in order to forward feminism. This is something I’ll need to research
First of all, “Young Goodman Brown” is such a chilling and creepy story, and if it was written today, you could probably find it highly ranked on CreepyPasta.com. Secondly, when I began taking a closer look, I saw Hawthorne’s clever use of symbolism. I particularly noticed this in his repeated mention of Faith Brown’s pink hair ribbons. Throughout the story, her pink ribbons are used as transitional cues of thematic changes. It may sound odd, but every time her ribbons are mentioned, it reminds me of those scene wipes/transitions in Star Wars-I can just picture her ribbons floating …show more content…
The scientist, Aylmer, loved his wife, Georgiana, but loathed her birthmark. If I personally knew Aylmer, I’d accuse him of being shallow. A birthmark? Really, Aylmer? A birthmark bugs you? Who are you? Austin Powers? – ( https://youtu.be/rc5G04nJecI?t=45s ). Aylmer particularly frustrates me because he seems to like a personification of the pressure and anxiety that social media causes. There’s this aura of perfection that lingers among many social media users that causes them to illustrate their life and/or body as being perfect. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a filtered photo, but there’s also nothing wrong with embracing ones …show more content…
I know she often secluded herself, but was this seclusion supposed to help her focus on her writings, or was she just depressed?
She definitely dealt with depression since it is evident in her poems and because she suffered through loss of loved ones.
Now, I don’t want to say that she was depressed because she never got married (since that takes feminism back a step) but think of the time she was alive; 1830-1886. Women couldn’t even vote yet; they didn’t have many rights, so raising and caring for a family was on most women’s agenda. Women were cared for by their husband or their fathers, and if a husband got sick of his wife, he could always just drop her off at a psychiatric hospital and never have to deal with again. However, also during this time, women were considered men’s property, so now the more I think of it, perhaps Dickinson chose not to get married in order to forward feminism. This is something I’ll need to research