Elizabeth Perkins

Abrianna Weaver Ms.Rad English 4 period 8 September 18, 2017 The Role of Women in Beowulf “Because when it comes down to my offspring I will fight with fangs of a wolf and the claws of a dragon. And no one or nothing will stop me from protecting them.” This quote is a representation of Grendel's mother even though it may not have come directly from her it represents the role of not only her in the story but other protective mothers who xc would do anything for their children even try…

According to Ellen Raskin’s recording of the event and excerpt 24 of it specifically, we have found significant information regarding the homicidal maniac who goes by Berthe Erica Crow. For reasons unknown, she was appointed as the cleaning lady in Sunset Towers and was even given an apartment to go with it. In addition, she was even given an opportunity to be involved in In Sam Westing’s Will. In it the 16 heirs are presented with the Westing Game, which has the objective of finding who…

According to Robert Martin’s critical essay on The Crucible, Arthur Miller found in records that between June and September of 1692, nineteen men and women were hanged for witchcraft, and fifty five confessed that they were witches. In history and in the play, Reverend Parris begins to think that his daughter, Betty, is ill because she and Abigail Williams have been influenced by witches. Parris fears the fact that this might ruin his reputation if his enemies were to find out that there was…

The moral consequences of sin always bestows itself upon the wrongdoer, whether he or she is a strong and independent individual or even a figure of God. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale must live in shame for the rest of their lives because of the adultery they committed with each other. Later in the story however, Hester progressively becomes accepting of her sin and it strengthens her sense of individuality while Dimmesdale hides it…

John Proctor and Abigail Williams from sixty and eleven, respectively, to thirty-five and seventeen, enabling the plot line of an affair between the two. Proctor and his wife Elizabeth ran an inn as well as a farm, but Miller eliminates this detail. Proctor’s friend Giles Corey was actually pressed to death a month after Proctor’s execution, however, Miller juxtaposes his death and Proctor’s. So finally Miller chose to omit the fact that Proctor had a son who was also tortured during the witch…

Identify a theme in the play and discuss its expression onstage in the performance and how it’s supported by symbolism or dialogue. Into the woods consistently displayed the theme of greed. Many of the characters made a sacrifice for something they wanted and victimized someone in the process. For example, the witch wanted more than anything to look young again, she sacrificed her powers over others to look that way. The evil step-sisters also were very greedy, they cut up their feet just for a…

Heathcliff suffers from antisocial disorder.Heathcliff has a hard time making good choices.Antisocial disorder is when a person shows “disregard for right and wrong”(Relay Health). “That the two cousins may fall in love, and get married. Im acting generously to your master: his young chit has no expectations, and should she second my wishes, shell be provided for at once as joint successor with Linton” (Bronte 427). Heathcliff makes the bad choice of forcing two people get married. Since…

This essay will argue why Jane Austen`s Pride and Prejudice does not support the idea of a companionate marriage. The novel does not support a companionate marriage because it involves characters marrying for the economic realities of marriage and for the benefit of their social class rather than for love and equality. Marriage in the novel can be seen as more than the act of falling in love and making the most serious commitment in one`s life. It requires characters to enter a legal contract,…

Eighteenth century love and marriage encapsulated both the publicized courtship of the seventeenth century and the private romantic conception of the nineteenth. Nicole Eustace’s article, “The Cornerstone of Love and Copious Work” addresses the present but unequal desire of marriage between the young men and women of this period. Through the analysis of surviving love letters exchanged between recurring characters, Eustace considers this distinction driven by men’s ambition to avoid the…

Wuthering Heights novel for Emily Bronte is one of the most important novel in history of English literature; because Wuthering Heights came with different ideas that contrast with Victorian ideas, some of these Victorian ideas for Ruskin female figure that should be helpmate, homemaker and make love environment for her husband, moreover the poet Patmore describes Victorian woman as an angel in the house, also the Victorian home as a place of peace, in the other hand the man is the leader of the…