The Wanderer

distance from herself, Hawthorne describes the letter as, “glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill-fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart, and unaccountable misfortune” (182). The letter is a sign of guilt and misfortune, which is destined to be picked up again one day and cause pain and misery to the “ill-fated” wanderer who comes upon it.…

Throughout the Old Testament, some of the most memorable stories are about the deity using nature to punish humans. Perhaps the most well known story of the deity using nature as a punishment is the Genesis account of the flood and Noah’s ark. Turning water into blood, the infestation of lice, swarms of insects, and hail are a few of several nature plagues found in Exodus. One of the first instances in the Hebrew Bible describing the deity as using nature to punish humans is found in Genesis…

The topic of Zizek’s talk is not the so called notion of “Virtual Reality”, but according to zizek the more important idea today is to understand the opposite, “The Reality of the Virtual”. Here, to proceed we need to make these two ideas distinct, "Virtual Reality" is a reality that contains the effect of actual reality but it’s not authentic. It's a kind of a simulation, a potent one. On the other hand the reality of the virtual is by which the actual effects of causes, which are not of the…

One lovely Saturday afternoon a bride to be slips into the white gown of her dreams. Little did she know her evil future mother in law t had different plants, feeding her son with false claims the groom flees leaving his love lonesome at the altar. Filled with agony the no longer bride is consumed in wondering why. Two isolated lovers dwelling on what used to be and should have been are not alone is there journey of heartbreak. . An unknown Anglo-Saxon scop wrote “The Wife’s Lament”, that tells…

The most common explained that serial killers were all dysfunctional loners, white males, motivated by sex, multi-state wanderer, addicted to killing, and are either insane or diabolical geniuses. While serial killings do occur, they are not as common or graphically alarming as the media often portrays them to be. While serial killer myths increased awareness of surroundings…

idea of a natural view of history. Gaddis constructs many metaphors in the introduction of the novel to express his optimism towards the nature of history. For example, in chapter one he introduces the illustration of Caspar David Friedrich, The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog to depict the landscape and starts to describe it’s perspective history. His narrations are precise because he ties in aspects of art history to expand on the knowledge of why history came to be. Gaddis’s states; “This gets…

The Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche tells of a man with a lantern who is searching for God, but announces that God is dead. No one believes in God or the power of God anymore, and so therefore the people have “killed” his existence in their minds. The madman is not celebrating God’s “death,” but is warning the people because he fears what will happen if they do not have a God in their lives, or some sort of purpose and direction. The madman believed there was a God, but the acts of…

¨Dear Mountains! My own beautiful lake! How do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue placid.¨ (Shelley 58) In Frankenstein's shoes, it's more than obvious he was going to have some kind of reaction due to the fact that he was gone for a long period of time. In this scenario, Frankenstein’s…

who are still human. In both The Host and A Long Way Gone there are people fighting to stay alive and not get killed or taken over by a parasitic alien. In A Long Way Gone Ishmael was fighting for his life by running from the rebels. In The Host Wanderer which has taken over Melanie’s body is trying to find her brother Jamie and her lover Jared. A Long Way Gone is a great book about Ishmael Beahs life while as a young boy who had most of his family killed by a group of younger guys known as the…

She had guiltily decided on her 17th birthday that she wanted to pursue an educational life. As much as she would have liked to become immortal at 17 and then marry Jesse, she knew that she wouldn’t have much of a future as a member of a family of wanderers and travelers. She loved the Tucks very dearly, but what would become of her whole life if she chose to drink from the spring? Winnie remembered Angus Tuck’s words, “ But dying’s a part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can’t…