Anne Fadiman

King Richard II’s Garden The Tragedy of King Richard the Second is a William Shakespeare play written around 1595. The play is the first of a series of four depicting the rise of Lancaster’s British throne. It is set around the year of 1398 and presents the transition of power from King Richard II to King Henry IV. Through the acts, Richard is portrayed as a regal but wasteful king, caring more to things like fashion and friends as opposed to state issues. When Richard II begins to lease…

“But she named her infant “Pearl,” as being a great price- purchased with all she has- her mother’s only pleasure.” The Scarlet Letter is one of many books wrote to teach the values of many possessions. But Hester’s scarlet letter is something much different. Hawthorne conveys the two central ideas of Sin and Temptation, and the Judgment of the Puritan Society to impact how the puritans believe everyone is born a sinner and how society judges them. The development of characters, setting, and…

The kingdom of Berbania is ruled by the king, Don Fernando and his wife , Doña Valeriana. They have three sons, Prince Pedro, Prince Diego and Prince Juan. The King’s favorite child is his youngest son, Prince Juan. He cared for him so much that when he had a dream about his favourite being betrayed and beaten, he grew very ill, and sadly no doctors in the entire kingdom had a cure. So King Fernando's illness worsened. But as luck would have it, an old traveling doctor arrives at Berbania and…

British Literature; Teaching Shakespeare ‘s Importance British literature dates back way past the 16th century, schools today across the United States still require teaching a very well known famous dead writer named Shakespeare. He was born in the United Kingdom, right now he ages at 453 years old he most likely are specks of dust by now. Recognized to be the best British literature writer, and his famous globe theater known to help out early English language. Although it is required for…

Throughout all of American Literature, authors have used different techniques to relay a message to the reader, one way being by depicting how the community’s influence on the protagonist shapes the protagonists’ development. In The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible, authors Hawthorne and Miller, respectively, use the social norms in Puritan society to express a common theme by portraying the positive and negative moral changes in characters. In Puritan society, individuals believed they were…

Rev. Patrick Bronte and his wife Maria. She was the third kid to the Bronte family. At a very early age she lost her mother Maria in 1821. This incident was heartbreaking for Charlotte and the whole family. The siblings Elizabeth, charlotte, Emily, Anne and son Barnwell had an extremely close relationship. Unfortunately, things didn’t stop here. There was more to come. In 1821 the family shifted to Haworth in Yorkshire where rev had been appointed perpetual curate. But the second thunderbolt…

Introduction The Book Thief is a Bildungsroman of sorts, dealing with the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The odd narration by Death supplies it with a sense of ambiguity that no other book seems to emulate. This novel regarding the journey of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who was given up by her mother in 1939, she embarks a new life living with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the humble town of Molching. Liesel’s journey evokes many mishaps and moments of joy; the book…

manner in which she ruled. Queen Elizabeth I was born an ordinary child without official monarch titles; however, she led an extraordinary life. Elizabeth Tudor was born on September 7, 1533, in Greenwich, England, a daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn (“Elizabeth” and"Elizabeth I." ). Prior to Elizabeth’s conception, her parents courting violated the jurisdiction of Pope Pius V, but it proceeded due to the urgency of obtaining a prince to inherit…

There is not one of us who has not experienced, after some fashion, the constraints imposed upon us by this entity that in reality is us, but we dub society. We are expected to be a certain way, to act in a way that preserves the status quo. To do this, however, to act in a way that pleases ‘society’, we must each put on a patina of conformity, concealing our individual differences in order to attain the goal of a more stable and permanent civilization. And in so doing, we indeed become…

“Empress Theodora.” and “Elizabeth I.” Essay In the informational articles entitled “Empress Theodora” and “Elizabeth I” The World Almanac and Milton Meltzer discusses that both articles show that Queen Elizabeth and Empress Theodora both impacted their respective kingdoms by making many changes that improved women’s status and that made everyone equal. Their rules still apply to many countries today. The two women are considered a great importance during their time. Elizabeth and Theodora…