Anne Boleyn

Conflict between forces in nature, humans, groups, states, and countries has been a part of the human condition as long as there have been people and things to fight about. In The Diary Of Anne Frank, a young girl experiences the methodical extermination of the jews by the Nazis in WWII, from the perspective of a family hiding to save their lives. Another type of conflict and resolution is the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the U.S. near the end of WWII. These were actions in response to…

The Scarlet Letter in The Scarlet Letter The Puritans during the 1600s did not take sin lightly, anyone who disobeyed the law was heavily persecuted. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this is depicted through the character, crime, and punishment of Hester Prynne, who has committed adultery and is sentenced to wear the scarlet letter to publicly show her shame. This scarlet letter A plays a key role throughout Hawthorne’s novel as it is vividly described throughout it, it…

Do movies based on books portray the same details? The Devil's Arithmetic was published in November 1988, and the movie was released almost 11 years later, in March 1999. Both are about a girl named Hannah who gets transported back in time to the year 1942. The book and movie versions of The Devil's Arithmetic are based on the same events, however, there are countless differences between the two. In the beginning of both the book and the movie, the protagonist is Hannah Stern. She lives in New…

Sin in the Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter, a historical fiction novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a hopeless tale of one Hester Prynne, who committed adultery and now has to pay for her crime, and her relationship with the rest of the characters in the book; this reveals how a harsh society can ruin lives. The negative impact of committing sin and secret-keeping is seen throughout the entire tale of The Scarlet Letter; it is portrayed through Hester’s fate, the intertwined lives of…

Contrary to popular belief, punishments can be beneficial. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter displays one example of this situation. The Scarlet Letter is about Hester Prynne, who committed adultery, and now must wear a scarlet letter. Guilt is consuming Arthur Dimmesdale, who also committed adultery, and remains unidentified until the end. The child that was borne from Hester, named Pearl, is an exact representation of the scarlet letter. The symbol of the “A” represents Pearl’s sinful…

Standing proudly at the scaffold for all to see, holding an infant tightly in her arms, is how Hawthorne choses to introduce Hester Prynne in his novel, the Scarlet Letter. She does not speak, but remains apathetic toward the insulting crowds below her. Just the beginning of this intricately written book portrays Hester in a way that reveals many of her uniquely interwoven character traits. Despite being an outcast Hester puts up an emotional wall to hide her true identity, and this becomes who…

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the symbolic meaning of the “A” worn by Hester Prynne is central throughout the novel. However, the meaning of the “A” shifts in the novel due to society’s view of Hester. For many years after the Massachusetts magistracy forces Hester to wear the “A,” the letter maintains its original meaning: adultery. This accusation originates from Hester’s affair with Arthur Dimmesdale while she is married to Roger Chillingworth, resulting in her pregnancy.…

Even now, Shakespeare is quoted, all the “live long day”(Julius Caesar). In books, television shows and movies, you can find Shakespeare’s words and influence. He introduced more than 3,000 words to the English language. Without even realizing it, our everyday speech is full of words and phrases used in his plays and poems. In “one fell swoop”(Macbeth) or thirty-seven plays and one hundred and fifty four sonnets, Shakespeare changed the way the English word was written and spoken, and those…

young girl named Anne Frank. With a diary she received, at the age of thirteen, she became famous for her entries about the world around her, and what the Holocaust was like for a young Jewish girl at the time. The reason her diary is so important today is because she brought the person back to the Jew. As to say, she left us with a real piece of the Holocaust, not a statistic or horror story, just the raw accounts of what happened through her eyes (Ballweg). With her diary, Anne was able to…

Ah the movies, the smell of butter and popcorn. Finding the perfect seat with a giant tub of popcorn, a soda, and maybe even some candy. Maybe it’s a scifi movie, romantic love story, a true story, or just a movie about everyday life. Going to the movies is always a fun experience, even though it may be expensive at times. It is usually very easy to relate to a character in a movie or just the story in general. The struggles the characters go through are often very relatable to most people and…