Notes from Underground

respond to the call of national characteristics of the times, which help him to consolidate a high status in American literary history. Hawthorne’s Romance, as a new literary form, has exerted a tremendous impact on Hawthorne contemporaries and critics from home and abroad, which strengthens his literary position. In most every book he wrote, he discussed evil in human nature. For example, Hawthorne’s short stories “The Birthmark” and “Young Goodman Brown” established the theme of human nature…

loss of innocence. Young Goodman Brown travels into the woods and it becomes very clear that this place is a reflection of his malicious thoughts, or his evil side. “…prisoner of a partial vision that has dehumanized him, and obliterated from his mind that part of a man…is made in God’s image and is next to the angels in the hierarchy…

most likely true for his neighbors as we find out later. The community’s beliefs in religion are only as vigorous as they think their neighbors religious beliefs are. We start to see this collapse in the woods with Goodman Brown. At first, he hides from Goody Cloyse and Deacon Gookin when he sees them approaching in the woods. He does this so he can keep his assumed faith in good standing with a top member of his religious society. Later, realizes she was also greeting the same man he did and…

Watership Down is a novel written by Richard Adams, about a group of rabbits ran away from their home warren and establish a new one. In Sandleford Warren, Fiver, a rabbit who can predict when is disaster is going to occur, tell his brother, Hazel, about something bad going to happen to warren. With the notice, Hazel and Fiver went warn the Chief Rabbit, Threarah, about the danger but the Chief does not believe them. Later Hazel convinced Dandelion, Blackberry and Pipkin to join. Bigwig, an…

everyone, and that a resolution to the racism and prejudice present in Birmingham could spark the beginnings of change in other towns and cities similar to Birmingham all across the country, and possibly even the world. The movement undeniably benefited from outside support and input, as well as contributions towards a peaceful resolution, an entirely different outcome than what was implied by the statement released in response to this…

Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the grandmother’s hat. She wears a girly outfit for the drive thinking that if they were to crash then people would know that she was a lady, a good lady. This is very misleading because the grandmother is the furthest from a typical, sociable lady. When they actually do crash her hat falls apart along with her moral principles. The brim of the hat comes off just as they are facing the misfit. The broken hat is released just like her moral judgement. In “ A Good…

far more” (177) at an altar surrounded by four baking trees. Brown laments “it was strange to see that good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints” (177), there is no division between the good and the wicked, as there is in Salem, in the woods. He is then led together with a cloaked female figure, as converts, to the evil practice. At instruction from the devil’s speech, the cloaked woman is unveiled to be Faith at the announcement: “[Depending] upon one…

In Martin Luther King’s JR letter from the Birmingham jail he responded to the statement of concern issued by eight white religious leaders from the south who called his movement “unwise and untimely”. His said that his demonstration was for equality and it was nonviolent and legal but he was still put in jail. His letter was very deep and long I wasn’t missing anything I understood everything he was trying to say. Even though the letter was written in august 1963, a lot of the struggles for…

Jesus Duran Professor Rodolfo C. Villarreal History 1302 October 9, 2015 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” Letters from Birmingham jail is a letter that was written by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 16, 1963 from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. This is where King was arrested for participating in a peaceful march in which he did not have a parade permit. Martin Luther King Jr. was very upset because the church and the “white people” were not supporting the religious civil rights movement. King…

Nathaniel Hawthorne, deals with the struggle between perfection and imperfection. The main character, Alymer, studies science during the Age of Enlightenment. The study of science completely consumes Alymer and sidetracks him from any social life. He eventually steps away from science long enough to marry a beautiful woman named Georgiana. Soon after their marriage, Alymer realizes he does not like a red, hand shaped birthmark on his wife’s face. He feels this imperfection ruins an otherwise…