The Man in the High Castle

After reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I realized how our lives are both similar and completely different. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that someone who is fairly famous and someone who has no significance in this world can be alike in many ways. Having read this book a few years back, it was actually helpful to me. It may have been helpful in the most indirect way possible, but helpful nonetheless. The Glass Castle had a small part in helping me through my…

When someone brings up the Middle Ages in a conversation or in a history lesson, people usually think of brave and handsome knights fighting dragons and rescuing princesses from castles. Though knights were prominent in the Middle Ages, they were not the most important part of them by far. That honor goes to the authors of the Middle Ages. One of the reasons knight tales are well known is because the authors of the Middle Ages made those tales so grand. They were not just great story tellers,…

Given to the common enemy of man,/ To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!/ Rather than so, come fate into the list,/ And champion me to th ' utterance.” (III.i.71). He symbolizes his soul when he says “eternal jewel” which shows how he used to value the life he lived and valued the people who surrounded him, but he has now handed his soul over to the devil. In turn, this created him to be evil and he lost all of his…

reunion? Fifty, seventy-five , even one hundred people? How about twelve hundred people? The Knuass elders leaders organized such a reunion. Their ability to gather information in the age of candles, horses and poverty impresses the most cynical man. Their pride in America radiates off the pages of their 1903 family report. Ludwig Johann Knauss came to America in 1723 with his wife, Anna Margaretha Gerlach. Ludwig was born in…

Ambition can be ones greatest attribute, in this case it could also be ones downfall. The play Macbeth, written by Shakespeare is a play that focuses on a young man named Macbeth who is portrayed as a hero in the beginning.Later on he gets a prophecy that then sparks his ambition to murder the king at first his not so sure but then decides to go for it.Unfortunately for him he is stabbed by Macduff at the end. On the other hand his wife Lady Macbeth is less hesitant with the idea of making the…

Two perceptions, one meaning Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece The majestic art piece “The Wittenberg Altarpiece” was painted by Lucas Cranach in 1547. This altarpiece is the focal point of the City Church in Wittenberg, on it we can appreciate the importance of how worship was sensed during those days. At the same time, the altarpiece also works as a religious type of publicity since we can identify a clear illustration of the effects of the Reformation on Northern European art. Martin Luther…

James O. Curdwood once wrote in The Case of Beauvais, "In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused." If that is possible, how evil are we in the inside? William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is set in a fictional world war in which a plane with a group of British schoolboys crashes on a remote island. At first the boys are lost and confused but still manage to organize into a society. Everything seems fine until their society crumbles into…

Huckleberry Finn, Dr. Watson, Hermoine Granger and Ron Weasely are all well-known examples of important roles that are equally important as their counterparts. Authors use secondary characters to support ideas of theme and to add to the plot. Supporting characters may not appear in all aspects of the plot, but act as a foundation to hold together the storyline. Shakespeare, an important poetic genius, frequently uses the roles of secondary characters to support the structure of his plays. In the…

Epilogue Age Seventeen Being brandished by the King to his enemies was no easy task. Like a knife, or a spear, I had to be sharp, impeccable. Unafraid. Completely capable. And most of all, intimidating. When night fell, I was no longer a typical seventeen year old girl. I became a weapon. Now, as the servants draped shimmering black cloth over my shoulders, I stood straight before the mirror. I lifted my chin, raised my shoulders. Regality. Fear. Be what they want you to be. All in black…

careful since he will now face more hardships than before. This quote is ironic since it sounds almost like a nursery rhyme yet it warns about much darker thing to come. 20) “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.” (IV,i,90-93) This quote was spoken by an apparition that visits Macbeth. This statement foreshadows the demeanour in which Macbeth will act for the rest of the play. Macbeth becomes a bloody…