Nathaniel Ayers

THESIS: * Directly answer question: 1 sentence * Thesis statement: - Through our own interactions with discoveries presented in texts across time, our perceptions of ourselves and others can facilitate a fresh and renewed understanding of the world and its people. -Through life we are filled with revelation as we are exposed to the ever-changing world, with this we are incited to grow physically, intellectually and spiritually, developing new ideas and perspectives. * Introduce texts: Ernesto…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the vengeance of a man after his ex-wife suffers for her sin in a small town in Boston whilst taking care of her daughter she bore after cheating on him with the town minister. Herman Melville wrote a similar American gothic novel titled Moby Dick, which is about a wildly obsessed captain seeking revenge and death on a gargantuan white whale along with his shipmates. The Character, Captain Ahab, was written after King Ahab in the Bible…

This film starts off with the Vatican electing a new Archbishop for San Salvador. Those who chose him had aimed to choose the weakest and most fragile member of the church, Oscar Romero. They could not have been more wrong about this man. Oscar became aware of what was happening to the people of San Salvador. They were being captured, raped and killed for no reason at all. Many men, women, and children had gone missing and were never found again. In this time period, the government was at…

Being the only one of Mark Twain’s novels written specifically for children, The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881. Catherine Dominic, a novelist and editor, voiced her opinions about Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, mainly that it contains many instances of mistaken identity, the most obvious cases are those of Prince Edward and Tom Canty. Catherine states that through the experience of lost identity, Twain depicts one's personal identity as something with a dualistic nature. For…

The Effects of the Past on the Present Drastic events can cause someone to change their perspective on things. In Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a Salem villager named Goodman Brown ventures on a sinful journey into the woods to meet with a mysterious elderly man. Goodman Brown’s discussion with the man as well as the demoniac activities he witnesses while travelling through the woods cause him to no longer believe in the goodness of the people of his Puritanical community. Goodman…

ligious imagery and thinking play a major role for Nathaniel Hawthorne. His perceptive insight into the organized religion that was Puritanism lends a sense of disillusionment and cynicism to his short stories. He is especially taken with the role of sin and man’s capacity for evil. He is both enthralled by it and at the same time repulsed. But he is acutely aware of its existence and uses this knowledge to highlight the hypocrisy and insincerity of a religion suffused with tyrannical clergy…

Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan is hailed as a pillar of the contemporary Irish drama, and brought about a new awareness of the atrocities committed all over Ireland in the Magdalene Laundries. The experiences detailed within are made all the more real by the author’s own experiences; brought to life in Sister Virginia as she struggles to fulfill her Christian duty of blind obedience while indulging her consciences’ need to help these women. The walls that kept that kept the penitent women…

The theme of isolation is greatly used in literature to help form characters and provide readers with an insight into crucial aspects of their identity. Isolation and alienation, two forms of torturous estrangement are very much experienced by the novel’s protagonists of ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘The Scarlet Letter’, Jane Eyre and Hester Prynne respectively. Throughout the two novels it can be broadly debated whether the characters are presented as outsiders due to their internal characteristics, or…

Maria Madrigales Professor Belz English 2327 April 9, 2016 Individual Project In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” the author focuses on the central theme of the mystery behind Reverend Hooper’s black veil. Hawthorne never reveals exactly why Hooper decides to wear the veil. Nevertheless, he suggests that he does so to teach the townspeople to consider their own sins. In fact, Hooper ultimately becomes pure symbol by the end of the work and he loses his humanity as the veil…

Journey of the Resolute Walking is a common thing for us. Walking, jogging, strolling, running, sprinting, shopping are but a few examples of walking commonly seen in current society. However in other parts of the world, there’s a type of walking only done by the devout. It’s a long, laborious, spiritually transformative walk known as pilgrimages. Rebecca Solnit, a writer, joined one of the pilgrims on her journey and wrote about her experience in her work, ‘The Uphill Road to Grace: Some…