Gallows

Great expectations; written during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet…

The quaint town of Salem is found in Essex County, Massachusetts on the Northwest coast of the Naumkeag River. The town centre is an eight-acre common in Washington Square with a statue of the town founder. The square is “Surrounded by beautiful 18th-century mansions”, and other streets are aligned with historic buildings (OldSalem.com). Salem State College was started in 1954 but was originally founded as Salem Normal School and opened in 1854. During 1874, $25, 000 was anonymously donated…

"My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events." That is what the narrator in The Black Cat said. Which is one reason why I think that the narrator in the Black Cat is a psychopath. I think that the narrator in the Black Cat for multiple reasons that I'm going to tell you. The first reason is that he likes animals more than people. And yet he despises other animals other than his cat Pluto. He loved Pluto and Pluto…

a suicide, and if this is the case that is prohibited within the Christian church. “Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she willfully seeks her own salvation?” (Hamlet …) They first begin to joke around with each other when talking about gallows making. “What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?” (5.1.46-47) They only joke around…

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer. This quote is an example of how symbolism can work, because the way you use to see something can completely change and you will use symbolism to help you explain those feelings in a different way. There are many examples of symbolism in the novel, “Night.” The symbols I will be talking about is; spoon and knife, fire, and lastly “corpses.” The spoon and knife Eliezer received from his father was a use of…

Witches are viewed in modern eyes as a typical halloween costume with little significance. In reality, though, most witches in American history have not been anywhere close to that! Most were common folk falsely accused of witchcraft. The influence of historical witchcraft is found in literature, movies, and shaping decades of American history. The origin of the term ‘witch’ was “... adopted by the early Christian church as a way to label and condemn the practitioners of the ancient pagan…

Character development is often times a necessary part of any story line; just as humans shape the world around them, characters shape stories. In most, if not all, novels, characters experience change and development of their psychological and moral traits throughout the story, which can be attributed to a multitude of aspects including fate and destiny, but more importantly are the cultural, physical, and geographical surroundings of the characters. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,…

The year is circa 1930 and the scene opens on a prison yard in Burma. George Orwell writes of his experience in this prison yard overseeing the hanging of a frail Hindu man and how the events he witnessed completely changed his outlook on capital punishment from retentionist to outspokenly abolitionist, even leading him to leave his job as execution overseer to later become a writer. In his classic short story “A Hanging”, George Orwell uses a variety of characters whose thoughts, words and…

through the conditions of being in the camp. They were physically and mentally abused and they began to lose faith in god. “For God’s sake, where is God? And from within me, I heard a voice answer: Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows…” (Night, 65). They not only lost faith in god but hey lost faith in the ability to survive and all of mankind itself. Elie and his father struggled every moment of their life in the concentration camps. They both along with the others were in…

The Holocaust was a period of genocide in which under Adolf Hitler’s command, 6 million Jews were killed. In this novel, Elie Wiesel shares his experiences in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. In Night, Wiesel exemplifies a number of literary strategies throughout the novel. Through comparisons, symbolism, and personification, the main character’s progression is conveyed at the three different stages of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Wiesel demonstrates symbolism,…