Nathaniel Ayers

Name: Jocelyn Toh Sze Lyn Candidate Number: 2259 School: Tenby International School Penang Centre: MY401 _______________________________________________________________________ How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in Macbeth? Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, events always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters…

Everyone messes up at some point, something that is regretted deeply. Many people try to hide this or just push it off, they simply don’t want to confront the sins they have committed. This concept is pushed deeply in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story the “Minister’s Black Veil”. Through the story the theme of everyone having secret sins that they do not want to confront is pushed through the elements of symbolism and characterization. Being as it is in the title the black veil in the story…

American Romanticism was a literary movement that started in the 19th century. American Romanticism shares a lot of similar qualities with transcendentalism. Walt Whitman wrote about similar topics as Emily Dickinson, although they lived two very different lives. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist who lived in New York and did journalism. Emily Dickinson was a romanticist who fell in love with a married man and then continued to spend most of her life in seclusion. Walt Whitman and Emily…

There is a diversity of ways as to how an author may want to illustrate an idea or concept, many of which use a varsity of literary devices to accomplish the transcendence of the message to the public. Ernest Hemingway is an author who immensely succeeds in transcending our perspective of the symbols and context clues into something beyond the words we read on the page. The “iceberg theory”, mastered by Ernest Hemingway, gives way to the idea that less is more, and that we, as an author, only…

Clothing may signify the true self or the masked self. Clothing, in a sense, is used in the novel to signify or suggest false disguise and trickery to the community. This clothing must therefore be shattered so that the real identity and the real intentions of a person will be revealed. Having no clothes may symbolize that the person is unprotected from the harms that the society might bring but it can also symbolize the person as breaking free from the norms and the rules of the society, which…

19th-century British Literature & Art Gao Jin Liu Yanchun (2013012734) February 29th, 2016 Soul in Two “The Chimney Sweeper”: From Fake Unity to Isolated Selfhood William Blake is renowned for his original mythmaking. He constructs the prophetic vision of the primal “Universal Man” falling from the divine unity that fuses inclusively man, nature and god together into the “Division” and “Selfhood” of detached individuals (Norton, 78). After the fall the world undergoes three lower phases:…

Carroll (2001) defines a novel as an extended work of fiction that has a complicated plot, many major and minor characters, a unifying theme, and several settings. So, Emma by Jane Austen and Wuthering Heights by Bronte are among the famous novels since its genesis in 1700 in England. The two novels have similar stories of which they share poetic devises such as setting, plots and style among others. In simple terms, the family of woodhouse that is in Emma and the family of Earnshaw in wuthering…

been a dream or not but either way what had happened takes a permanent effect of Goodman due to either the reality of the night or to the corruption and personal sin to dream up such a scenario. In conclusion to the theme of good vs. evil I thought Nathaniel Hawthorn presented a very interesting story for the reason being in my experience with the exploration of good and evil, the author usually takes the high road and good wins out always. The fact Goodman lived out the rest of his life with…

An analysis of Merwin’s tone in his literary works compared to Whitman’s tone in his works was brought forth by L. Edwin Folsom, a professor of english at the University of Rochester, Massachusetts with a Ph.D in the subject. He specializes on the literary works of Walt Whitman and analyzes the different tones, but same purpose found in the literature of Merwin and Walt Whitman. Folsom begins with a quote from Merwin saying that he identifies himself as being an American poet, but not in any way…

D.H. Lawrence’s critical essay about Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous heroine in The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, is nothing if not full of entertaining remarks that slander both the author and character. Lawrence believes that Hawthorne turns Hester into a farce. He does not respect Hester’s characterization because she becomes a bad example of what a woman should amount to. Lawrence proves his case through the use of allusion to help the reader relate to his claim, the use of repetition to…