Treasure

As the plot progresses, Hawthorne develops Pearl’s characteristics as though she were an angel sent from heaven. Despite Hester Pryne’s sin and the scarlet letter, the author describes Pearl as wild, but beautiful and imaginative at best. Pearl's character is symbolized by God and the supernatural. Among the community, Pearl is considered a “demon’s child” born out of a guilty passion, but Hawthorne refers to Pearl as a “lovely child […] worthy to have been brought forth in Eden” (Hawthorne 82).…

voting, or purchasing whatever we want. It is also, drive safe, keep a job, and serve on a jury. Being respectful is a choice of who you want to be , where you want to work , and how you will act in this world. I realize that this precious gift, this treasure, has been paid for the sacrifice of others. .What is the cost of Courage? Working a full-time job, learning is education. The price paid by a person well like a soldier that sacrifice for our country, our family’s protect by the…

Historians learned a lot about this ancient civilization from inscriptions and what they discovered in many of the Etruscan tombs. There are many known Etruscan tombs that were found from ancient Italy. The tombs were known for their exquisite treasure and paintings inside them. These tombs were in the form of a mound or tumulus and were built with stone or volcanic rock and used masonry blocks that were…

Campbell remarked Lucas to have perfectly integrated the cycle to Star Wars’ plot. This is not surprising at all, due to the fact that Lucas drew inspiration from the template Campbell created for his film, Star Wars. Table 1 presented below compares the stages of the Hero’s Journey to the events that occurred in the movie, A New Hope. *(Christopher Vogler’s condensed version of the Hero’s Journey has been used in this paper to view this theory from a more general perspective in contrast to…

The Pardoner’s Tale revolves around the idea of betrayal. If the scoundrels had not betrayed one another, they would have walked away alive, each with their own share of treasure. But it is through this act of betraying one another, each of them plotting to murder the others in an act of pure avarice, that the scoundrel’s meet their end. After his tale, The Pardoner demands that his audience pay up for their pardoning. This…

Throughout history “The Truth behind Troy” has been documented and talked about for many centuries. In my opinion most of the research and scholarly evidence of Hisarlik clearly shows that our current knowledge of the famous ancient city of Troy is based on Homer’s writings and archaeological discoveries made by the German archaeologist and excavator Heinrich Schliemann. Many have agreed that Homer should be acknowledged as a legitimate source of historical reference and therefore, so should…

Beowulf was translated by Burton Raffel and is an old epic heroic poem. The author of Beowulf remains unknown. It is the oldest old English surviving poem. Beowulf took place in the 6th century in Denmark and Sweden also known as the home of the Danes and land of the Geats. Beowulf has several of main characters and they are Beowulf, King Hrothgar, Grendel, Grendel's mother, and The dragon. In Beowulf we have a young warrior named "Beowulf" who wants to kill a monster named "Grendel" who has…

ignore the word of God and believe we are on our own, but that is not the case. God is always with us. Understanding Christ and all he did for us is essential. God's word is what defines Christianity. Out of all the precious things in my life, I treasure my Bible the most because it provides me with wise advice, teaches me every time I open it up, and comforts me. To start with, my Bible provides me with wise advice. Many books of the Bible are filled with wisdom from the Bible's biggest…

For a generous man to prosper, the text claims “a young man should practice…treasure-giving while under his father’s guidance, so that in years to come dear companions might stand by him” (Beowulf 21-21, 3). Beowulf’s generosity and sacrifice allows him to establish strong bonds and kinship with his men, which in turn leads to his…

Beowulf’s battles with the three different monsters throughout his life show the true development he went through as an archetypal hero. The methods that he uses to defeat the different monsters are altered in a way to emphasize the epic change Beowulf went under as he developed into a strong Warrior-King. In Beowulf, the Pagan Warrior culture is defined by the individual's ability to win great battles and then retell the battle over drinks in the mead hall. This was no doubt something that…