Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin’s The Captain’s Daughter is a coming of age narrative. Throughout the work, Pushkin illustrates many familial relationships surrounding the protagonist, Petr Andreevich Grinev. These relationships Pushkin creates in The Captain’s Daughter are beyond Petr’s mother and father, stretching into non-biological relationships that mimic the growth-fostering environments and experiences of the nuclear family. When considering Petr’s migration to Fort Belogorsk, these non-biological relationships play a critical role in his maturation process from child to adult. By critically analyzing Petr’s relationships to other in the story, it can be seen that Pushkin uses these familial relationships as a facilitation mechanism for Petr’s development…

allegorical world. Linda M. Morra and Deanna Reder’s Troubling Tricksters: Revisioning Critical Conversations, propose that the purpose of every trickster tale is to “[articulate] ambiguous distinctions between human and divine realities, with the final goal being in the development of ‘civilized’ codes of morality, values, and ideology” (30). Any culture is influenced by the trickster and the narrator in Eugene Onegin, written by Alexander Pushkin…

Russian Recluse Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, Notes From Underground, takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1860s. He portrays his nameless main character, the Underground Man, as a recluse who dislikes people and avoids human society. The novel is written as a memoir from notes that the man writes, recounting his life, as he isolates himself off from society. His misery and inability to interact with others only pushes him further away from society into a world of self-loathing and…

relationships Pushkin is trying to emphasize. Pushkin strategically uses Tatyana and Olga as sisters who possess polar…

meaning and the way names are spelled changes over time and across the world. Our names, meanings, nicknames, and why we were named what we were, are just a few ways that shape are uniqueness. Originating from the Greek name Alexandros, Alexander signified "shielding men" from the Greek word alexo, which means "to guard. Help" and the Greek word aner, which means "man". The name Alexander additionally has a place with a legend of Paris in Greek mythology and has a place with a few characters in…

It was agreed upon in the Constitution that “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” (Jefferson). By stating this it was absolute that those who were in a position of power are there because the people they over-see. Some of the men behind the support for the Constitution were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Although the Federalist strongly supported this change there were many disagreements from the Anti-Federalist…

Federalists, who were mostly high-class businesspersons, slave owners, and bankers; and anti-Federalists, who were mostly lower-class businesspersons and farmers. The Federalists believed in a strong national government and were in support of the constitution. The anti-Federalists believe that the new government would have too much power and would tread on people’s liberties. Anti-Federalists fear that in giving too much power to the central government; States’ rights would be over looked and…

The author of Founding Brothers, Joseph Ellis argues many points throughout the assigned reading. He argued that the new nation surviving its infancy stage was “bleak in the extreme.”(Ellis, 8) The adolescent nation faced many challenges both home and abroad during the revolutionary generation as they attempted to fashion an independent viable republic such as the dinner which Thomas Jefferson held to decide the issues of the early nation’s deficit and the location of its new capitol, the…

influential “founding fathers”, as they are known today, was a remarkable yet flawed individual. This group of men consisted of John Adams, the first Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, who is widely regarded as one of the most influential of the group, Alexander Hamilton, the author of The Federalist papers, Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, James Madison, the father of the Constitution, and…

for new independent countries forming from there on out. Although rather bright and happy, the United States government has had its fair share of dark stories. One of the most known dark secret is the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. This duel was planned to resolve problems between the two, and possibly fix any political issues between their parties. Hamilton seemed to truly want to resolve any situations, but according to history, Burr had other ideas. The two men were supposed…