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Blake and Dahl, the Bad Boys People are born both innately good and bad. Throughout history, there are figures that one can look up to as symbols of innocence as well as symbols of evil. Literature has attempted to explain the differentiation between the two, often in a religious sense. “Genesis and Catastrophe” by Roald Dahl was written in 1962 and evaluates the birth of the infamous Adolf Hitler. In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the author ponders the difference between good and evil in god’s…

1 Six guardian and beneficent snakes at Edfu temple Ahmed KhalafAllah Safina∗ The scope of this paper is limited to the discussion of some lesser known aspects of six snakes at Edfu temple1. I aim with this paper to develop the understanding of these elusive beings through the examination of their nature, roles, names, and epithets. These snakes originally belonged to subordinate deities2 that had a beneficial and protective role with regard to Horus of Behdety…

In the early Nineteenth Century, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of America’s most important writers since the publication of The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne was known as a romancer and even a realist when writing many of his pieces. When writing the short story, The Birthmark, Hawthorne say that it was one of two of his most challenging stories. The story is about a crazed scientist Aylmer and his wife Georgiana and his hatred towards Georgiana’s birthmark. Aylmer caused Georgiana to hate herself…

Archetypal Analysis on Young Goodman Brown In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story Young Goodman Brown, the author is portraying the hero’s spiritual journey as his breaking of morals and values, inner struggle, and an attempt to overcome his weakness. The author represents the hero’s journey as a way to break his morals and values. Brown is proud of his family and he thinks they are very religious "My father never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a…

Joyce Carol Oates wrote This I Believe: Five Motives of Writing explaining the five different motives of writing commemoration, bearing witness, self-expression, propaganda, and aesthetic object. “Commemoration” (Oates 1) is the remembrance method, where it can be ancestory, legends, myths, or family. "Where a story or a novel is set is at least as significant as what the story—the plot—“is.”" (Oates 1). “Bearing witness” (Oates 1) structure is what is going on in the world, what happens in…

In a forested woodland area, a being sat alone. Shrouded by darkness it appeared as if the creature was part of the night that surrounded it. A boy stumbled forewords upon noting the creature’s presence. It appeared as if the boy had no control of his limbs as he was forced towards the creature. His heart pounded against his ribcage as he was directed towards the hulking being made of the endless ebony void. “What are you?” The boy stammered helplessly. The creature forced the boy to sit on…

The red stag howled its last as it dropped to the ground. The green glow from its body began to faint and vanished. Kairzo eyed the surrounding trees, vigilant of movements—another Remnant like the stag, might appear. Standing in the center of the trees, he pointed his sword forward and spun steadily, prepared to make a quick slash if something jumped at him. Mr. Enders told him that the forest became strange—small animals became rarely seen and injured lumberjacks came out of the forest—but he…

In the mid nineteenth century, a movement known as the transcendentalism movement started an uproar. During this time period, authors expressed their opinions on how they felt about human nature, which is also known as how humans acted as a group. Human nature consists of many flaws that previous authors revealed in their works. In his short story Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne describes how human nature is erroneous or flawed. He tells us through all types of symbolism that humans are…

Now, James sends the dejected artist to his doom in order to test whether Mary Garland will, in fact, revere Roderick’s memory. And as Roderick wanders up the mountainous divide, the weather rapidly transforms into a raging tempest, which according to the locals is unprecedented. Thus provoking Mrs Hudson to cry, “Go and find him, go and find him!” (228) Despite this, Rowland convinces himself that “nothing was more probable than that Roderick had found shelter in a herdsman’s cabin.” (228) The…

Truth? or Dream? In a world where life is a symbol for everything, with demons lurking in every corner, and people believing in a common lie; a man named Young Goodman Brown was permanently affected. In the story, “Young Goodman Brown,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown witnesses a mysterious ceremony, that will scorn his mind with the Devil’s presence. Near the conclusion of the story, many are stuck wondering if Goodman Brown experienced the reality of the Devil’s ceremony/journey…