Archer M. Huntington

In order to know oneself, one must know others and their surroundings and vice versa. We can relate a literary text Young Goodman Brown and a movie The Village to this argument because both stories encounter archetypes with similar meanings. An important archetype in both stories are the woods and how it effects the characters’ knowledge of themselves. These stories are both of a puritan village that provides evidence of an imagined place or state of things in which everything is thought to be…

Booker Prize winner and J.M. Coetzee masterpiece, Disgrace, published in 1999 “seems to be a book about endings: the end of rape, the end of morality, and the end of humanity meaning" (Bandici). The novel takes place in the post-apartheid South Africa, where the internal pressures, the anger, the inequalities and the discrimination still haunt the country as the legacy of the previous political system. The controversy behind this novel and how it shows the complex transformation suffered by a…

having the confidence and courage to complete or achieve something and “Quality” is how one has obtained or achieved their goal and what the outcome of the end product looks like. In the book “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” written by Robert M. Pirsig expresses what the true meaning of quality and gumption really is and what it is like to experience a moment of your life where nothing else matters, Also known as a Zen moment. Chris Pirsig is going to be…

In, ¨Markheim¨ by Robert Louis Stevenson this supernatural story takes place on Christmas day when Markheim wants to acquire a gift for a woman he is courting, but along the way he plans to murder the dealer at the pawnshop and steal money. Markheim ends up stabbing him with a dagger on the dealer´s back. This then leads to Markheim going crazy and leads to him start talking to this alter ego of his. It is this alter ego that represents the dark side or evil of Markheim. It is this phenomenon…

Trade is the action of exchanging goods and services with others. Without trade, people in different parts of the world would be limited to the resources available locally. Seeing as some countries cannot support certain resources due to their climate, it is necessary to have a means of providing resources to places where they might be sparse. In her book, Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang details the lives of young women working in the Dongguan factories in China. She attempts to approach the…

you in many different ways he may show you signs, he may lead you in a certain path or may bless you in a way you need it. Everything has a meaning and purpose nothing is a mistake some stuff happens to prepare you for the future. As you can see M. Night Shyamalan has shown his theme through many different literary devices. He has shown people that the overall theme is everything happens for a reason. The viewer of the movie may now question themselves and say, Am I the one who believes…

“The way to have power is to take it.” These were the words of a man that was rated one of the top ten most corrupt US politicians of all time by Real Clear Politics. A corrupt leader could be considered a Machiavellian. Dictionary.com describes a Machiavellian as someone who follows the principles analyzed and described in The Prince. The Prince, is a book written in in 1513 by Niccolo Machiavelli that was dedicated to the Magnificent Lorenzo de' Medici. It is widely believed to be a handbook…

Disgrace, by J.M Coetzee, is a story about a man named David Lurie, but it's more on the story of a victim that was raped. Lucy Lurie, daughter of David Lurie, is a white, middle-aged, lesbian woman who was violated by three African-American men. This experience traumatizes her and changes her personality and perspectives. The trauma also sets back the relationship she has with her father. She demands neither sympathy nor justice for what has happened to her. What kind of resolve would a woman,…

The Sixth Sense, a film by M. Night Shyamalan, director and screenwriter, deserves no less than 4 stars because of its great use of characters, and the sound and lighting used throughout the movie. The Sixth Sense, a thriller and a ghost story, is portrayed as much more than just that. Perhaps it’s the chilliness and coldness in the air that make you just want to shiver. Or maybe it’s the way that they use almost direct silence to add to the scary feeling. Maybe it’s the lighting that always…

My Brilliant Career is a novel written by Stella Maria Miles Franklin. The text focuses around ideas of marriage, social inequities involving class and gender in Australian society and myths of Australian bush landscape during the 1890s. Using various narrative conventions such as characterization, symbolism and point of view, these ideas have been presented as elements of the Australian identity in the course of the era. My Brilliant Career is a testament of the courage and conviction of…