The Beautiful and Damned

Born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Jazz Age short-story writer and novelist) is well known for his turbulent personal life as well for his novel's success in which allowed him to become prominent. Born into a humble family, he was the only son of a noble named Edward Fitzgerald and a provincial, working-class mother, Mollie McQuillan (The daughter of an Irish immigrant who made a fortune in the wholesale grocery business in the years following the Civil War)…

Queen for a little stroll.” Semjaza replied. Saraqael arched his brow. “Semjaza are you trying to upset Azazel again?” “Who cares what he thinks? I am the one who deserves to be king. I made the suggestion.” “And you are the reason we are all damned.” “Saraqael is right, you do not want to upset him.” I agreed. “Smart girl, even she understands how troublesome it would be for all of us.” “Saraqael, there is a reason you never led in the first place.” “And there is a reason you are no…

worsens considerably, and that relationship often parallels the severity of his sickness. When Tayo was in the Philippines for the war, the weather was incessantly rainy, so Tayo “damned the rain until the words were a chant . . . all the time he could hear his own voice praying against the rain” (11). The fact that he “damned” the rain shows an immediate disconnect between him and nature. Before he went to war, Tayo performed a ritual to bring the rain back, but now, however, he wishes the rain…

holes after their turns under the needle) would better suit some collection of ass hats' prejudices and lack of vision (not to forget their complete lack understanding of what millennials spend their money on!) should be elsewhere than the town's beautiful square? (My apologies to hats and asses. I meant no slur of either.) In my limited understanding of male humans we tend toward two modes of being. We create, build or we tear down, destroy. Most men I've spent any time with are like me in that…

The reason Boniface is placed in the eighth circle is that many of his contemporaries thought he was guilty of simony, despite a lack of hard proof. One of the sins that Boniface committed was that he took “the beautiful Lady by deceit” (XIX.52). According to the endnotes, the “Lady” is how people in Dante’s time referred to the Church. Boniface was accused of causing the abdication of the previous pope, Pope Celestine V and ascending to the papacy through simony…

In the midst of a sea as clear as diamonds and as blue as sapphires lived a beautiful mermaid with hair like white silk. Her name was Eudora. However, she was no ordinary mermaid. She was a witch. Ever since she was a child, she had manipulated the tides to bend to her will and had created precious riches out of nothing more than a grain of sand. One day, Eudora and her closest friend, Salacia, went for a swim and swam farther from their kingdom than they had ever swum before. In the midst of…

high-working class and prominent business men, as he is likened to a congressman in modern America. A political figure in this time period is a high honor. However, to the low class maid servant watching from her window, the man is “an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane…”. She sees no class structure in the handsome man. Upon the preluding to a terrible act of terror, Stevenson paints a picture of a particular alleyway of London with “a fog rolled over the…

I have made a research and analysis essay of three strong women, where I looked at their stories, discussing their weaknesses and strength, how they reacted to different situations and an analysis of their characteristics with critics and scholars to support my points. Lady Macbeth is in the list of one of the strongest women in english literature, many people and scholars agree on how manipulative, insensitive and inhuman she is because she would step the boundaries of morality to achieve…

in the elevator during the short ride up but before the door opened EDI spoke again, her voice quieter and more serene this time. "Your voice patterns indicate stress and sadness. Would you like me to alert Yeoman Kelly Chambers?" Damn. Even the damned AI knew when she…

Moreover, Kesey uses the character Dale Harding to show the dominance of masculinity between men. Dale Harding, the scholar with a vixen wife, is described to be a fragile-like male, with beautiful features, dainty hands, nice hair and a slim body, and educated suggest attributes fitting for a leader. Despite his beauty, his good looking wife, and his degree, Harding’s biggest trouble was his passiveness and lack of masculinity. When McMurphy is first introduced in the book, he asks to meet…