Scarlet Macaw

Greene’s use of Bendrix as an antihero in The End of the Affair helps to portray a struggling moral character. Bendrix is another perfect example of an antihero. He even admits his own mediocrity when he says, “My words were overcharged. I could detect their insincerity” (19). Everything about Bendrix is repugnant: he is a complainer, a hypocrite, a narcicist, a pessimist, a paramour, and an atheist (which has a bad connotation attached in society). In other words he is everything a hero should…

A political allegory is when a book or a work of art, tells one story but actually is using that story as a metaphor to hide a political meaning underneath. A political allegory could be found in fiction, drama, paintings, films and music. The dictionary states that an allegory is a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one, it is derived from the Latin and Greek word ‘Allegoria’ “meaning ‘veiled language’ or ‘figurative.’…

Symbols From the Raven and Masque of the Red Death Why do authors put symbols into their stories? Well symbols can help people picture and relate to something in the story. In the stories The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death they each used three categories of symbols. They used loss of control, death, and lastly false sense of security. These three categories took the stories to the next level. It made the readers be able to picture and relate to the story in their own way. So what symbols…

The Scarlet Letter was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1800s, but the book is placed in the Puritan times of the 1600s. Hawthorne is an anti-transcendentalist, which means he thinks society is good and nature is evil and humans are naturally evil. Puritanism is a very strict religion in the 1600s. If you are a Puritan you are against all earthly pleasure and your life is hell on Earth. Symbolism is a literary device that uses symbols to represent ideas. In this novel, The Scarlet Letter,…

The Scarlet Letter: Prompt 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson were among a group of authors known as the Romantics that valued feeling over reason, imagination over science, and nature over civilization. These ideals are commonly displayed in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Like any writers of the same time period, Hawthorne and Emerson may have never completely accepted each other's beliefs, however the characters that Hawthorne creates agree with Emerson’s advice, “[d]o not go where…

William Shakespeare, George Orwell, and Joseph Conrad compare and contrast different ideas to help bring together his or her thoughts. Light versus dark, Denmark and Norway, Memory and the Past, are examples how an author may compare and contrast situations that may be important to the meaning and understanding of their novels. Besides those meanings, corruption is also a very important theme within these novels too. It shows and explains that a certain act can happen in real life. The three…

Author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in an excerpt from his novel, “Egotism; or The Bosom Serpent,” recounts a puzzling condition that Roderick Elliston suffers from. Hawthorne’s purpose is to convey the idea that, love can also be a force of destruction that brings harm to the people who express it. He adopts a despairing tone through the use simile, repetition, and imagery which appeals to the emotions of the readers and supports Hawthorne’s purpose. Hawthorne begins his excerpt by addressing the…

The two poems by William Blake, The Tyger and The lamb are two poems that represent two opposites. The Tyger is the representation of evil and The Lamb is the representation of good and innocence. He, William Blake, was a successful poet and painter born in November 1757 in the city of London. William Blake thought and had a theory that injustice, death, war, and suffering were caused by human beings and because of their erroneous or false beliefs. William Blake wrote 2 collections; the first…

The Scarlet Letter & Chicago The theme of a story is woven all the way through the story, and the characters’ actions, interactions, and motivations all show how that theme is part of the story. There are many themes that are similar in The Scarlet Letter and Chicago, but there are also many differences in the themes as well. From the strictly religious uptightness of the Puritans to the sexual dance halls of the Roaring 20’s characters struggle with the same types of issues as shown in the…

We all wear “masks” in front of society, however, we let them see the burdens and judgements we want them to see. Hester Prynne is a of the “victim” I read about in “The Scarlet Letter”. ‘The Scarlet Letter” is a romance from the time period of the 1850s, before the salem witch trial occurred. The book was written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote the book in 1996 and the book is considered to be his “master piece” or “masterwork”. She had to wear the letter A for “adultery”.…