The Nightingale's Song

What makes you ‘you’? Perhaps the answer to the question varies from group to group; Perhaps, we are a collection of our physical, mental, and spiritual components, all unique and different. The Birthmark is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1843. The audience is introduced to a brilliant scientist, Aylmer, whose life revolved around his experiments and quest for scientific perfection. While controversial, Aylmer abandons his laboratory to marry Georgiana, a beautiful woman that…

Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition…

What is my life all about? Why am I living in a world that is a hamster wheel of birth, work and death? What is it that makes my heart sing and how could I live by my own standards? And, most importantly, why am I not listening to that inner voice that keeps trying to warn me when I’m about to do something stupid. Every few years I would find myself practically homeless, broke, hungry, trying to hang onto whatever strands of a human existence I had left. I had a hole within me that was so vast…

“‘Winter,’ said Ser Kevan” (957). After five long books, winter is finally upon the Seven Kingdoms in George R.R. Martin’s A Dance of Dragons, and the mysterious others and their undead horde are posed to swarm over the realm. Unexpecting and unprepared, the Seven Kingdoms is preoccupied with rebellion. The lords of the realm are plotting against one another and, “are feverishly endeavoring to advance their ambitions and ruin their enemies, preferably unto death,” (Orr p.3). These ambitions are…

in front of weep to associate the words weep and sweep to show that the chimney sweepers while they were sweeping they were often crying or sobbing. This really helps the reader understand how miserable the lives of these children were. In "The Chimney Sweeper (1789)" poem the main character has a name and in "The Chimney Sweeper (1794)" poem the protagonist is never referred to with a name but merely referred to as, "A little black thing among the snow,"(1). Blake gave the chimney sweeper in…

Game of Thrones is unlike any other series on air to date. It has recently gained a massive following of fans over its fairly short lifespan as a series. Drawing from George R. R. Martins books, this series, for sake of argument is practically the same as the books in its adaptation. The series strays from the typical fantasy series with its absence of a singular quest, portrayal of magic, and its mostly gray characters, give Game of Thrones a realistic view in the fantasty genre. With all…

Game of Thrones is an ideal example of why the mass media is drawn to the apocalyptic-fiction genre and can be attributed to the connection between fiction and reality. Internally, within the mind, there is a psychological interest in endings and the end of the world. Externally, there is interest regarding historical events and personal religious beliefs. The apocalypse-fiction genre in modern media continues to become increasingly popular because many books and shows, such as George R.R.…

Every man had gone through a different method of torture. One bloody man is strapped onto a chair with an eyeball hanging out of his skull. One man is strapped to a table with all his legs cut off. Another is shackled to the wall with his balls cut off. All of these men seem to have been left to die bleeding in one way or another. They must've been that close to dying because they didn't seem to react to the yelling further down and some of them were even twitching oddly. It wasn't until we were…

Tara Haggerty Anonymously Rudolph Rudolph is a six year old Red-Nosed Reindeer, he had a very shiny nose and some would even say it glows, all of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names they never let Rudolph join in any reindeer games, Rudolph never really had any friends. He would just stay in his stall all day and play by himself. After years of being teased and flat out bullied, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer finally had it. Rudolph was sick and tired of not being able…

On a casual glance, one would never expect the Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience to parallel Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. The first two are books of poetry romanticizing the simplicity of nature over the rushed boom of the Industrial Revolution, and the later, a horror story about an articulate, yellow skinned monster that inspired a whole subgenre of fiction and films. The connections lie deeper than what a quick read can pick up; they’re in the fiber of the themes of distinction…