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of The Black Death on the Economic and Social Life of Europe."). People would see their neighbors healthy one day, and dead the next. Many isolated themselves in their homes. Others embraced the apparent apocalypse, throwing frenzied bacchanals and orgies. Before the Plague, feudalism dominated Europe. Lords confined peasants, called serfs, to their estates. But with so many dead, serfs began to move around to other estates seeking better working and living conditions and higher pay (Courie).…

Throughout literature, authors have used multiple literary devices to convey messages about their writings to the audience. From speeches and essays to poems and stories, literary devices have been used throughout multiple works of literature to emphasize the author’s points and provoke thought and feedback from the audience concerning the piece; by helping the readers appreciate, learn, analyze and understand pieces of literature more in depth. One literary device that attributes to this is…

The Representation of Man Through Scents in Perfume In Patrick Suskind’s novel, Perfume, scent establishes the primal instincts of man. Humans evolved into the complex creatures seen today but they can also be reduced to their primal state. Suskind creatively incorporates basic human nature into the novel as represented by scents. The setting allows for Suskind to incorporate human nature more easily. The lack of basic personal hygiene indicates that there would be an abundance of bodily aromas…

Witch hunts. Driven by the need to purge their society of evil and sin, merciless government leaders hang supposed evil doers by their necks. The targeting, persecution, and execution of witches has existed for a long time, regardless of whether the victims were actual practitioners of witchcraft or not. The question remains, if these people were not truly mixing concoctions of liquid evil in cauldrons or casting spells on their personal enemies, then why were they chosen to be accused, and…

Obsessed: Looking at the Link between the Bedroom and Obsession in the 1001 Nights “Hunchback Tale” Obsession is a key element of the outer frame story of the 1001 Nights; it is most notably seen in the ritualistic telling of stories each night. Therefore, it is no surprise that obsession appears as a linking theme in one of the enframed stories. In particular, the “Hunchback Tale” has the Christian’s, Inspector’s, and Doctor’s stories all containing an obsession over one particular individual.…

Orwell realised that in politics, language was the key to power as it had the ability to manipulate the truth and mislead the public and he used this information to base his novel around. Both Orwell and Atwood found the significant strength of language in it’s ability to manipulate and how it is often more effective than physical punishment as it "can be continuously applied to the general public without raising great public opposition of fear” (Berke) Gilead and Big Brother both exploit…

In the Roman state, the citizens showed their devotion to the culture and values through respecting the government officials and worshiping the Roman gods. This was practiced ever since the beginning of the Roman republic in 509 BC. However, three hundred years later in around 200 BC, allegedly, a Greek priest arrived in Etruria and led the expansion of the Bacchic cult into Rome and the rest of the Italian peninsula. This cult was associated with many immoralities and was of major concern to…

I have never been a particularly social person, but I do have a handful of good friends that I love dearly. We always had a good time, and they kept me sane through high school and the first few years of college. I'm not good at meeting people by myself, but with my circle of friends I was never alone. And so you can imagine I had problems when I moved to a new town where I knew no one. I'd had good enough dating experiences back home. Friends would set me up, or I'd talk to a guy from the…

World War I was one of the most gruesome wars in history, with a death toll of 8.5 million and 20 million were left injured as a result of the war. Why so many innocent people joined to fight in the war? It was because of the glorification of war and people romanticized about experiences in war. The government told half-truths to the people in order to boost their nationalism which would benefit them when fighting the war. As a result, most of the civilian population believed that war was…

The main character, narrator, and protagonist, Molly Bolt, has various relationships throughout the unfolding of Rita Mae Brown’s Rucyfruit Jungle. These include her adoptive mother and father, her childhood friends, and her lovers. In the book’s introduction, the reader is given a prime example of Molly’s brutal and severe relationship with her mother, Carrie (Overview, Novels). After she and Brockhurst Detwiler were caught selling peeks at his un-circumcised penis, Molly returns home to Carrie…