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funded by the British Crown to supply raw material to their central economy. The colonial holdings allowed Britain to blend feudal customs with more modern merchant practices to establish interests and wealth for the Crown abroad. An example of this new kind of commonwealth was the Virginia Company. A joint venture…

Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language — language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison. For example, in the beginning…

publication attempts, the poetry was not published until later in his life. Although the 12 years of farming had been unsuccessful Robert drew many inspirations from the rural setting for his poems. Frost and his family sold the farm and moved to England where he hoped to pursue a career in poetry. There, he met with publishers who agreed to publish two of his poetry collections, A Boy’s Will and North of Boston. He also made friends with several famous poets, including Ezra Pound and Edward…

Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of The Scarlet Letter. He was born July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Winther, Sophus Keith in “Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography” explains that “Hawthorne was the practical, ordinary man interested in the ordinary and commonplace problems of everyday life.” Hawthorne was faced with a lot of problems which led him to his love of writing but he also went through an ordinary life. He got married and settled away from home. As his occupation as an author he wrote…

opposing stances in the level of hope that they present to Ethan. Zeena surrounds Ethan with the overwhelming truth of how the desolation of Starkfield has seeped into their lives and the hopelessness of that fact is inescapable. Mattie, however, breathes new life into Ethan’s seemingly empty future and gives him the opportunity to finally seek a life filled with the happiness he has always envisioned, but has never had. The description that Wharton gives to the reader to sum up all of Zeena’s…

Woodhull was born in Setauket, Long Island to parents who were part of prominent families in Long Island. His normal life, during the revolution was farming at Long Island while taking care of his elderly parents. A while later Woodhull was looking to sell his land for money, but decided to trade with Britain. This was considered a serious offense for the Rebels, at the time. So, in consequence, Abraham was put in jail, but then released by Jonathan Trumbull, the Connecticut Governor, and was…

Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment.” (Hawthorne 107-109). The scarlet letter is a representation of Hester’s shame after committing adultery. This symbol, a punishment device of sorts created by the elders of the town, is used to externalize the shame of the wearer, reinforcing the fact that the wearer sinned and punishing this person by exposing her inner shame. It also condemns her to exclusion from public approval and unprejudiced fraternization normal to…

With bountiful snowfall and harsh winters, Edith Wharton establishes an inhospitable setting for her piece of literature, Ethan Frome, which gives the book a frigid and depressing atmosphere. The cold nature of the book explains the protagonist’s, Ethan Frome’s, need to search for companionship in other people. The fear of existing alone and forgotten in the gelid winter appears to be too much to bear for Ethan Frome. He pounces on the first opportunity that arises and marries his mother’s…

Northeastern North America and the Movement Away from Tradition Maple sap is harvested from trees in the northeastern United States - specifically northern New York, New England, and the Great Lake states - as well as Canada, particularly Quebec. The main producer in the United States is Vermont, but Canada produces about eighty percent of all maple syrup in the world (“Food Production: Maple Syrup”). The average temperature range of maple-producing areas is zero to fifty degrees Fahrenheit, in…

John Brown American Terrorist John brown was raised as one of many farm children, growing up his life was anything but easy. John Brown was born on May 9, 1900; he was born into a household that hated slavery. John brown and his family moved to Ohio when he was just 5 years of age, when Brown was 8 years old his mother passed away. At the age of 16 brown went on to enroll in a preparatory program in Plainfield Massachusetts, shortly afterward he transferred to the Morris Academy in Litchfield,…