The Demon Lover

The novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, has many symbols. One of the most important symbols is Hester’s daughter, Pearl. Her purpose changes throughout the novel. Although in the beginning she is nothing but another reminder of Hester’s sin, she goes on to be an intelligent character who becomes a key part to the story. She helps the reader connect ideas that are not obvious. She also tries to bring Hester and Dimmesdale together. When there is a resolution to her purpose, she is…

Justin Martyr’s first apology is written to the Roman Emperor of the time, Titus Aelius as well as his son Verissimus the Philosopher and another, Lucius the Philosopher, son of Caesar. To clarify, this letter was not exclusively written to these three, but rather it was written as an open letter to Rome as well*. Thus, expanding the impact of Justin’s apology beyond the ears of a few power individuals who might suppress such a letter from the public. Justin’s intent with this letter was to…

It concerns my mental health and my religious family. Throughout my entire life, I have experienced auditory and visual hallucinations. Recently, my parents were led to believe that it was demons or angry spirits that I had conjured and was communicating with. My mother called countless pastors and had them speak with me, she even considered an exorcism. I truly felt like the accused. My parents fully believed that I was possessed. It went…

princess or a psycho ex-girlfriend, but a woman who was extraordinary. Fisher was an accomplished author, script consultant, mental health advocate, dog lover, quirky tweeter, mother, storyteller, feminist, and more importantly, herself. We lost Ms. Carrie Fisher October 27, 2016. An icon in this world and the next. One bodacious soul who fought her demons and continues still to help people open up about addiction. You can say, “she drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own…

perilousness into the life of every creature. His plan of traveling from Transylvania to England provokes the endangerment of multiple people, therefore, jeopardizing their existence. Jonathan Harker, the main character is set to believe that a group of semi-demons will be formed as result (67). Harker’s previous expression proves that vampires are capable of rapidly increasing in amount, leading to the non-vampires to decrease in quantity. According to Stoker, “your girls that you all love are…

generalship. The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in war, he was a dangerous force, "overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering." His sons Fear and Terror and his lover, or sister, Discord accompanied him on his war chariot. In the Iliad, his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him. An association with Ares endows places and…

I was precipitously awakened by an uncooperative bumping noise. It was extensive and drawn out. Something was pounding, thumping, and throbbing. It was a noise desperate to be heard, becoming a mystery as to where it was coming from or what started the ruckus. For starters, I assumed it was part of my imagination that was coming from in-depth, of my extended dream. An extended dream, that I had found myself, fighting alongside Othello at Cyprus, attacking the Turks, “O’ feather spirits, actually…

A traditional slave narrative is meant to speak out against slavery. It is read by the free, influential white men of the North to join the abolitionist movement to abolish slavery from the United States. Harriet Jacobs takes a different approach in her own slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. In a passage of her narrative, Jacobs says: “But, O, ye happy women, whose purity has been sheltered from childhood, who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose…

were young, their love was true and better than any other love. The narrator trusts so much in their love that he believes that nothing in this world, or the next, can separate them from being together; “And neither the angels in Heaven above/Nor the demons down under the sea/Can ever dissever my soul from the soul/Of the beautiful Annabel…

was an absence. When Victorique saw death with her own eyes, she saw the dead souls walking through the shadowed lands. There was no sadness, no pain. Yet people who wandered in the shadows lands moved without purpose, aimless. Souls that were once lovers passed by one another, a mother and her son didn't even walk hand in hand with one another. Yes, there was no pain or sadness, but there was also no recognition and love either. Death was the absence of all things. After seeing all this, the…