Young Goodman Brown Essay

The complicated riddles that Gollum threw at him put Bilbo into a mental state of a true hero. He used both his intelligence and knowledge to answer Gollum’s tricky riddles and then threw some back at Gollum himself. After all, the riddle war was basically a life or death situation. For Bilbo to fully adapt himself to the mindset of a hero he had to use everything he knew, including his memory, “Unfortunately for Gollum Bilbo had heard that sort of thing before: and the answer was all round him…

Jack’s Adventure Once upon a time, a village boy named Jack went for a walk into a forest. Jack was looking for his missing golden goose. After sometimes, Jack was feeling tired and he sat under a big tree. He was very sad because he could not find his golden goose. Suddenly, he felt a massive shake behind him and it was from the big tree. He turned around and he saw a small bearded dwarf climbed down from the beanstalk. Jack was very shocked and he shouted “Arghhhhh!!!”. The dwarf fell from the…

DATA’s Don't Sing is a commentary on the nature of humans and our secret motives. It investigates a Christian suburban neighborhood at a deeper level, showing that everyone involved has darker fantasies at work. The video introduces us to the 5 main characters, The Housewife, The Fat Man, The Deviant, The Catholic Girl and the Neighbor Boy. We explore their inner thoughts. The Housewife wants to kill The Fat Man. The Fat Man wants to beat his neighbor, The Deviant. The Deviant wants to have sex…

In the course of history, multitudes of people are inspired by their time period and environment over different subjects and controversies, to the point of their circumstances during their lives. With our case being with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil”, found in the collection Twice-Told Tales, the Puritan faith was a prominent factor in Hawthorne’s writings through his lifetime during the early to the late mid-19th century. With the concept of Dark Romanticism, Hawthorne wrote…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

Dark romanticism tends to be know with the idea of darkness in human souls, the concept of sin, or a certain dark outlook on society in general. An Example of a Dark Romantic piece is “The Devil and Tom Walker,” by Washington Irving. Romantic literature, such as 'The Devil and Tom Walker,' often references the supernatural. In the story Tom is haunted by a man who he calls the devil. It was not uncommon for people of this era to believe that one could make deals with the devil in a horrible…

significance of the black veil on Mr. Hooper’s face is sorrows and can be obscured by a veil no matter how dark the sin is. The congregations first impression of Mr. Hooper’s action of wearing the black veil was of him “committing adultery with a young girl who died in the beginning of the story”. Due to the meaning of the black veil, Mr. Hooper is certain to let no one see under it, not even his…

In a forested woodland area, a being sat alone. Shrouded by darkness it appeared as if the creature was part of the night that surrounded it. A boy stumbled forewords upon noting the creature’s presence. It appeared as if the boy had no control of his limbs as he was forced towards the creature. His heart pounded against his ribcage as he was directed towards the hulking being made of the endless ebony void. “What are you?” The boy stammered helplessly. The creature forced the boy to sit on…

Are humans truly superior to the world that surrounds them? In the poem “Evening Hawk” Robert Penn Warren questions humanity's ultimate dominance of the world, and instead suggests that nature is the judge of humanity's errors. Through diction and imagery the author creates a dark apprehensive mood and shows the fragility of mankind before nature. In the poem Robert Penn Warren uses specific diction in order to develop a dark mood of unease. By using words like “black”, “scythes”, and…

The red stag howled its last as it dropped to the ground. The green glow from its body began to faint and vanished. Kairzo eyed the surrounding trees, vigilant of movements—another Remnant like the stag, might appear. Standing in the center of the trees, he pointed his sword forward and spun steadily, prepared to make a quick slash if something jumped at him. Mr. Enders told him that the forest became strange—small animals became rarely seen and injured lumberjacks came out of the forest—but he…