The Heiress

Risk is the essence of life. It tastes bitter like coffee, but it rewards you by making you get up and continue stronger. There are many factors that make one determined to take risks, but the strongest ones belong to the people we love. In such cases, taking risks could reach to sacrificing one 's self for his or her loved ones. When one truly cares and loves a person, they take risky actions and decisions for them blindly. This idea of taking great risks for one 's precious ones is often…

The Pride and Prejudice novel was written by Jane Austen during the 18th century in 1813 and is centered around the futures and fortunes of the five daughters of the Bennet family. When this book was written, it was a time and culture when women were treated unequally to men. Therefore, women have little independence and were always at a disadvantage, different from the life style women live today. Pride and Prejudice takes place in a society where a role for women is earned through…

Branded on her chest for all to see, Hester Prynne has to wear the letter A for the duration of the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although it is not explicitly stated, Hawthorne makes it apparent that the letter stands for adultery. Her fellow sinner, Arthur Dimmesdale, her husband, Roger Chillingsworth, and her daughter, Pearl, are all physical manifestations of the letter A. Dimmesdale represents her guilt, Chillingworth represents her fear, and Pearl represents the good that…

Tudor, the only Lancaster alive married Elizabeth of York in 1486. John A. Wagner claims and proved that Elizabeth of York is a key figure in the war because without her the feuding sides would not have been unified. In his own words Wagner says,“As heiress of York, Elizabeth’s marriage to Henry VII…

William Shakespeare was known to have no birth records. But he was baptized on April 26th, 1564, which makes scholars think he was born near or on April 23rd, 1564. Most scholars think he was born on that date so thats what they refer to when he was born. William Shakespeare was about 5’9 and around one hundred and fifty pounds according to scholars. He was right handed. He had long curly hair and a trimmed beard. He had green eyes, and he was white. William Shakespeare's home town was about…

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel that incorporates both marxist and feminist views in order to demonstrate the ways that some of the characters in the story challenged the status quo of society in the 1920’s. The female characters in the novel manipulated their male counterparts in that they started to break away from the norm of being escorted places and doing more and more things that were previously male dominated activities. The novel’s dramatic situation…

From the very beginnings of the book’s early chapters, Roger Chillingworth has been described very grimly in his overall appearance. From his “strange disarray of civilized and savage costume” to his “slight deformities”, and the description of his unnerving ability to animatedly exaggerate his face into whichever distinct feeling he was experiencing, Roger certainly is a significant character to the telling of The Scarlet Letter. In addition to his many oddities, Chillingworth is compared to…

In some relationships a child can be the catalyst that brings two people together. However, this is not the case in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne commit adultery together, and unfortunately Hester gets pregnant. When she starts to show signs of her condition, she is thrown in jail. In addition to her jail time, Hester must always wear a scarlet letter A on her bosom which is a contstant source of public ignominy. In order to protect…

differentiate itself and take a stand in the realm of literary drama. After helping to create the Irish Literary Society and the Irish National Theatre Society, Yeats managed to obtain the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. With the backing of an “English heiress” the Irish National Theatre opened for business in 1904. Alas, this gifted theatre came with the stipulation that it was to be run according to W.B. Yeats’ vision for a national institution and ergo should operate above political pressure. …

Just as everyone has been an adolescent, everyone has seen a depiction of adolescence somewhere in the media, and although scholar Sarah Blakemore discusses how a teenager’s reckless behavior is caused by an underdevelopment in the brain, as shown in her TED Talk “The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain”, she is overlooking that it is not the brain that affects a teens decisions but the environment the teens are placed in. Although there is a large amount of media portraying adolescents,…