Mercy Otis Warren

“Little underground men are very useful. They explain all nature’s mysteries”(42). Billie Wind, a young teenage girl, takes on a journey through the Everglades. Billie’s journey through the Everglades allows her to explore the Seminole tribe’s legends. Her adventure to the Everglades was initiated by Charlie Wind punishing Billie Wind. In the beginning of her trip she is a doubter and denies the truth in many of her tribe’s legends or in anything that she was doing or was going to do.…

McCarthyism and The Crucible In 1952, Arthur Miller published his play, The Crucible, which follows the real events of the Salem witch trials, three hundred years earlier. During the time that Miller wrote the play, America was in a period of fear. The Cold War had just begun and citizens of the United States were terrified of communism. Senator Joseph McCarthy didn’t help with the turmoil when he claimed that he had 205 names of people in the country who were a part of the Communist Party.…

In The Crucible it is a play that takes place in Salem Massachusetts. The Crucible was written in 1953 by Arthur Miller. The Crucible is about the witch trails that happened in salem around 1692-1693. In the first act John Proctor did not have a sense of goodness. John Proctor did not have a good sense of goodness because he committed a terrible sin which the sin was adultery. John Proctor also doesn't have a good sense because he doesn't tell his wife or the court that he has committed a crime…

Execution during the Tudor times included various varieties. There are some that are crueler in comparison to the execution suffered by Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey as a noble was given the fate of being beheaded. Considering the multiple varieties of execution during the Tudor Time period, her execution is more merciful than cruel. She was beheaded in a tower away from public eyes. Although, it is equally risky as a beheading can go awry. Such case occurred with Thomas Cromwell, the…

A villain, according to Webster's Dictionary, is a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot. While there are several people that could be considered villains in the Scarlet Letter, including the townspeople, Mistress Hibbons,and Dimmesdale the ultimate villain is Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth is the biggest antagonist in Scarlett Letter because he was truly full of hatred and out for revenge; cold hearted schemer and evil, he exhibited all the…

The article, “One of The Very First JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory Investigations”, by Jack Minnis and Staughton Lynd was all about the investigation made by an FBI agent to confirm all essential versions of the President’s assassination previously presented by the Dallas police and by Gordon Shanklin. The author's main point in this article was to inform the readers how, who, and where the assassination of John F. Kennedy occurred. My main point is that the author did a fantastic job of…

Literary Analysis: Scarlet Letter In the Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses; tone, diction, and syntax illustrate that the punishment on humans by others may not be as destructive as the guilt they impose on themselves. Hawthorne uses very long syntax to emphasize the details of his characters. “This creed was never taught for instance, by the venerable pastor, john wilson, whose beard , white as a snow-drift, was seen over governor Bellingham's shoulder; while its wearer suggested that…

Status stands as one of the major determining factors of many aspects of one’s livelihood throughout history, especially in the Puritan society as portrayed in The Crucible. The women in The Crucible clearly have a lesser influence than that of their male counterparts, but consequently; the women of Salem use their varying statuses in order to get their way by taking advantage of certain situations. In terms of the upper class, the women will surely hold the trust of the others in their…

In the year 1523, Baldung creates one of his famous witch painting, Two Witches, that continues to investigate the seduction of the women towards the male beholders, leading them onto their own fall of sexual pleasure. In the painting, the viewer can depict two females with different body composition, structure, and the direction of their gaze. The witch that is seated has broader physical frame and her body is turned to the front for the audience to freely observe her nakedness. On the other…

The overall story is one I have heard multiple times since it is so ingrained in pop culture. I was introduced to it in a Looney Tunes cartoon that my family still quote to this day. It seems that everyone knows the story; they may not know the darkness of the original, but the basic story has barely changed. Personally speaking, finally reading the original has not really changed my view of the story in the slightest; I still think that it has a good overall message of ‘beware of strangers’.…