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kingdom with complete and utter silence. And there was no sun. The forest was cloaked in this booming, resonant color of green that felt like it was going to knock me off my feet, and then steal the breathe out of my body. I was following a small brown path that was dotted with the most magnificent marbled rocks I have ever seen, and I knew exactly where I was going. At least, my dream self knew exactly where I was going. I woke up before I got to my destination, but I imagine it was a…

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…

1. In Nathaniel Hawthorn’s short story “Young Goodman Brown”, the man character, Goodman Brown, comes across a strange traveler whom he encounters in the woods late one evening. This man turns out to be the devil. Hawthorn’s description of the strange traveler’s staff, which “bore the likeness of a great black snake” (Hawthorn 94), foreshadows the identity of the man Goodman Brown is meeting. Furthermore, the Devil’s identity is fully revealed by Goody Cloyse, who screams his name after she is…

rise to wickedness. Evil is a very difficult subject that many consider displeasing, however, evidence from the stories, “ Young Goodman Brown,”,“ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and, “ The Devil and Tom Walker,” shows that evil does exist; and has existed since the beginning of time. By reading these three stories the themes of Good vs Evil, “Young Goodman Brown,” greed and gluttony in, “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” and moral decay in, “ The Devil and Tom Walker,” become quite apparent. If all…

he would encounter a downfall he could never recover from. On June 13th of 1994 at approximately 4:25 in the morning, police were called to the scene of a violent murder in Brentwood, California (Toobin 34). The location of the crime was Nicole Brown Simpson’s house (Toobin 34). Nicole was O.J.’s estranged wife at the time. At the scene, they found 2 victims stabbed to death, later confirmed…

Through two different journeys, “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “Araby” by James Joyce, we see messages expressed through the use of symbolism. Symbolism is used as “a substitute for the elements being signified” and they allow authors to provide a more meaningful message than a mere description could (332). In “Young Goodman Brown” and “Araby” we see similarities in the use of symbolism to explore questions about religious faith and the protagonists’ search for answers; but…

established on scene, when uniformed police arrived, that both of the victims were deceased and therefore life was unable to be preserved (People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, 1995). The victims were then identified as Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The evidence was then collected and the crime scene was secured with only police and forensic access (People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, 1995). It was then in the period when Simpson was…

Young Goodman Brown symbolism "Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published by American Romanticism writer Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1835. The story takes place in Salem, Massachusetts around the early 1690’s ("Hawthorne, Nathaniel." 1). He tries to addresses the Calvinist or Puritan belief which humanity exists of people are in a state of depravity ("Hawthorne, Nathaniel." 1). Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts ("Hawthorne, Nathaniel." 1). His grandfather, John Hathorne, was…

Young Goodman Brown and Religious Hypocrisy In the short story, Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of religious hypocrisy plays a huge role. The short story is about a man known as Young Goodman Brown who leaves the city of Salem, leaves behind his family to meet an old man. He goes without knowing who he is and what his intentions are. The old man is like any other but in his hand, he holds a staff carved to what seemed to be like a living snake. Goodman Brown notices that…

On June 12, 1994 at about 10:15 pm (Courier Post Online, 2016) Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to death in the front yard of Nicole’s home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, all while Nicole’s two children were still asleep in the house. After the bodies were discovered, the next of kin for both families needed to be contacted. Officers were sent to the home of O.J. Simpson to notify him of his ex-wife’s death.…