Sophia Hawthorne

What does it take to get a break from and to ultimately overcome the evil that surrounds us every day? Ever since the fall of man back in the dawn of time, there has always been evil in the world, it has haunted man and followed closely behind him everywhere he goes. This is made visible in “Beowulf” by (insert author here) through multiple scenes when Beowulf builds the courage to take on evil head on. Beowulf affirms that evil can endanger peaceful civilizations, there can be small respites…

Joseph Heller employs satire when presenting the patriotic sentiment of the novel’s characters as to illustrate the ramifications of such fervor - both in one’s actions and disposition. Through his use of satire, Heller presents how patriotism can prompt individuals to actively support a movement, or entity, without much consideration of the integrity behind the movement (simply because it parade’s under the same banner). For instance, Heller exemplifies this type of blind following in the…

Margaret Atwood Analysis of the writing style: Best known for her books, Margaret Atwood is perceived as one of Canada's most noticeable and productive contemporary journalists. Atwood's notoriety, be that as it may, likewise lays on her voluminous commitments to the class of verse and short story. In addition, as a basic expert, student of history, and writer, Atwood's compositions have showed up in an extensive variety of academic material spreading over from school and college course…

Young Goodman Brown and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow were both written in and about a similar time period. Hawthorne and Irving were contemporaries, and Irving was an inspiration for the writers that followed in his footsteps during his lifetime, including Hawthorne, and the similarities between these two stories are numerous as a result. Both lived during a time where the hypocrisy of Puritan values was very prescient in the minds of philosophers and writers. America was still a young country,…

Veils of Pretence and Hypocrisy in Manto’s Selected Short Stories Priyanka Gupta Dr. Neeru Sharma Research Scholar Assistant Professor…

When it comes to famous authors in literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne is one who’s choice of diction and symbolism can depict lives of one of America’s historical societies, the Puritans. Hawthorne was no stranger to the works of Puritan fiction. One of his more well known, The Scarlett Letter. Based on the article published by the Karabuk University (Uğur Uçum), A Reconsideration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter”, this Romantic story based on the Puritan’s thrive to creating a “purely…

flawless being, and by doing so, interfering upon the land of the divine. Hawthorne carries this message over the story of the scientist Aylmer and his elegant wife, Georgiana, who has a tiny, hand-shaped birthmark on her left cheek. Aylmer is fixated with this mark that retains his wife from being flawless and is determined to remove the mark by using his experiments. Throughout the telling of “The Birthmark”, Hawthorne uses codes to further show the selfishness of man, the symbolism of women,…

Transcending the Norm Transcendentalism can be defined as the knowledge of oneself and the world that cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Transcendentalists cultivated many new philosophies relating to this knowledge. Although Transcendentalism reached its peak in the 19th-century, it is still relevant to current American culture through its principles of living in the present, independence from technology and material objects, and Civil Disobedience. One vital tenet of Transcendentalism is of…

Transcendentalism & Anti-Transcendentalism Transcendentalism is a literary movement that believes that truth exist beyond reason, hard evidence or experience. The followers of this movement, the transcendentalists, believed that it was time for America to have its own form of literature, and these writings were made very different from those found in other parts of the world. There are 5 themes common in works of transcendentalism. They are Nonconformity, Self-Reliance, Freethought, Confidence,…

There are a number of questions floating around the origins of the novel; is it a literary form? And in the event of accepting that, then it is mandatory to mention that it was begun by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. Thereupon, the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century has flourished into many sorts; such as: the realistic, the sentimental and the satirical novel. The rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century does not infer that there was nothing of the…