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religious feast days. “On religious feast days, for weddings or for civic celebrations the Ladin farmers and some of the townsfolk pull their traditional costumes out of their closets. The women wear panlike or cone-shaped high hats over embroidered bodices, gaudy aprons and long billowing skirts”(4). This tradition is still practiced by the Ladins, and they still dress up in those costumes. This aspect of folk culture has been preserved because it isn’t practiced by large groups of people and…

"The world's law was no law for her mind. It was an age in which the human intellect, newly emancipated, had taken a more active and a wider range than for many centuries before.... Hester Prynne imbibed this spirit. She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known of it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatized by the scarlet letter (Hawthorne 1:164).” The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel…

How smoothly I could shade the skin with my new technique, how I could capture every rough thread in the bodice, the shimmer and gleam of the smooth gold fabric lining the overcoat. So I kept telling myself it was worth the effort. Every second I spent on this would make it that much better. And finally, one night, there was nothing left to render. I had shaded…

high temperatures and then covering the sculpted piece with a glasslike glaze. Found in the storage pits at Knossos, the Snake Goddess figurines are bare-chested feminine framed statuettes dressed in flounced Minoan skirts and snakes wrapping the bodice and arms. The actual geometries of the figures are relatable to those found in the Near East an Egypt; another trading connection with surrounding regions. An example of the Mycenaean sculpture is similar in function and shape of the Minoan is…

Throughout her life, Hester Prynne had to suffer through much judgement and isolation due to her scarlet sin. Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the scarlet letter as an examination of ability to overcome limitations and also as an evaluation on Puritan society in the 1700’s. Though the scarlet letter initially represents the sin of adultery committed by Hester before the story begins, ultimately it came to represent many different positive aspects of her character as the story progresses. Within…

Elizabethan Theatre and Hamlet The Elizabethan era is named after the Queen of England - Queen Elizabeth I who reigned in the years of 1558 to 1603. During this time theatre became central in the social lives of society, whereas they used to be public executions and cockfighting. Elizabethan theaters was extemporary, loud, and dirty, however, it attracted audiences as large as 3000 people from all social classes. Though, mostly the upper classes because they could afford watching plays during…

Throughout The Scarlet Letter, there is a heavy note of falling from grace, although it is most prevalent in the conclusion. Numerous characters' psyches are destroyed after they commit one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Roger Chillingworth, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Hester Prynne all fall victim to this folly. As it turns out, that particular folly contributes to their ultimate downfall. The term "downfall" is synonymous with death for many of the characters. Hester's sin, however, is not the cause of…

Captain Blood Summary Captain Blood is a story based on 17th century in England. Have you even seen/heard that physician turns into captain, fights the pirates and go against the government to have freedom? This story has adventure, action, romance, comedy with some suspense drama. Captain Blood, this wonderful tale is by Vidas Barzdukas. The story has been adapted from the novel by Rafaek Sabatini, its envision by John S. Kuhn and directed by Philip J. Hickman. This play was performed by the…

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and was set in a Puritan society in the colonial age. The story explores the ideas of truth, sin, guilt, hypocrisy, and social stigmatizing by interactions between Hester, her Scarlet Letter, Chillingworth, Dimmesdale, and the Puritan Society. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this due to his background history with his Puritan ancestors, financial problems, and disdain for Transcendentalism ideology. Nathaniel’s background as a Puritan…

Ripper Her fingers shook as she twisted the key in the lock. It was dark out already, although it was only seven thirty. Wrapping her shawl more tightly around her shoulders, Alice began to walk. Nobody could describe her as a delicate, excitable debutante, like the women for whom she worked­ not prone to fainting or having the vapors­ but even still, Alice felt a distinct sense of unease. In broad daylight, at the best of times, people would go on about the dangers lying within the streets of…