Anne Murray

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.…

June 20, 1837, until her death on January 22, 1901, Queen Victoria’s reign had set out a whole new trend from progressing technology, to new clothes that would inspire modern-day clothing wear, to gender roles, religion, arts, and literature would change our world forever. Alexandrina Victoria was born on May 24, 1819, to her parents Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in Kensington Palace, London, United Kingdom. Alexandrina, later became…

problems related with religion before she had even born. Henry VIII dissociated himself from the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope Clement VII when he divorced Catherine of Aragon to marry Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was a child, she was raised Protestant as her mother Anne Boleyn. However, as Anna Keaton says, Elizabeth always followed “the religious requirement of the country regardless of whether they were Catholic or Protestant.” (Citar) During her brother’s reign, she…

3.1.2. The Portuguese Restoration War (1640-1668) As Charles V married Isabella of Portugal, Portuguese was possessed by the Habsburgs through the political marriages which were traditionally implemented. Since his son, Philip II of Spain, also known as Philip the Prudent, both Spain and Portugal were considered harmonious, the usage of ‘’the Iberian Union’’ was common. However, when Philip IV of Spain began to overtax Portugal, Portuguese felt uncomfortable with the situation. In addition to…

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…

important poet not only because of her courage in dealing with previously forbidden subjects, but because she can make the language sing” (Erica Jong). Anne Sexton was an honest and unapologetic young writer, who was unafraid of expressing the true realities of life through the medium of her poetry. As a young woman of the 50s, 60s and 70s, Anne was inspired by poets such as Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. The 50s and 60s were a time of oppression and sexism towards women, and Anne’s writing…

was born on September seventh of 1533 at Greenwich Palace. She was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, King Henry’s second wife. King Henry was disappointed that Elizabeth was born due to the fact that he wanted a son and already had a daughter, Mary. As a result Elizabeth had a misfortune childhood. Anne could not give the King a son so he had her executed. Henry's marriage to Anne was declared null and void and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and denied of her place in the…