Vanity

behave in a spiritual or moral fashion. Such as the cast in “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” where he preaches and tries to get sinners to give their lives to Christ. Edwards wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fears, pity, and vanity. Edwards had a positive impact on his Puritan audience because of his use of fearful tone, heart-felted imagery and thoughtful figurative language. Edwards had a positive impact on his Puritan audience because of his fearful tone. For…

The central idea of the short story, “Araby,” by James Joyce, is a young Irish boy who has a crush on his friends sister, who is considerably older than him, he goes to the market to get her some but eventually realizes that it’s not worth it. The author demonstrates this by writing, “But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires” (Joyce 2, Paragraph 5). This quote illustrates how the young Irish boy has a crush on this woman. There are many…

awareness and strong responses to these issues. In Ways of Seeing, John Berger makes a striking point about how we view nudity – an artist will paint a naked woman for his own indulgence, but by adding a mirror in her hand, he can disguise its meaning as vanity. This simultaneous adoration yet disapproval of viewing the female body for pleasure has persisted in history and still today. He further explains that in many works of art, artists romanticized women strategically to appeal to their…

the power “put in [our] hands to discover the Devil’s agents among [us]”. When confessing his affair to the justice court, Proctor was not persecuted for his actions but instead renowned for his honesty. Adversely, Abigail was labelled a ‘lump of vanity’ and condemned with ‘a whore’s vengeance’, the justice court accused of ‘pulling down heaven and raising a whore’ by John. The double standard served by the men…

Digital media and social media have changed the way we receive the news. Instead of a few television stations or newspaper companies, there are thousands of outlets to receive the news. With more and more ways to get the news, there naturally must be more people involved in reporting and interpreting the news. This paper will discuss how digital media and social media have diluted the power that ‘old media’, such as television, radio, and newspapers, once had in reporting the news, which has led…

who looked much older than the 14 year old girl reflected. The purple bikini clinged to her flesh and goosebumps spread over her arms and stomach as the air conditioning blew down from the vent above on her cold hair. Tossing the towel across her vanity stool, she reached up with both hands and untied the elastic that bound her hair while her eyes caught the site of Brody across the street. Brody had just left her house. Like every other night this week, he had come over for an…

Many people all around the world face many difficulties and misfortunes throughout their lives. It isn’t the struggles that define their character, it’s what they do about the struggles that does. Like the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and the film The Impossible, they both explore the elements of adversity and its relationship to heroism. In Pride and Prejudice we are introduced to the character Elizabeth Bennet. The second character we were introduced to was Maria from the film The…

The Road to Humanism The Renaissance and Humanism developed in Italy in the 1300s and 1500s. It developed in Italy then spread north. “Renaissance” meaning rebirth began a new way of thinking throughout Europe. Merchants and traders influenced the Renaissance by promoting art and education. Although Petrarch was the “father” of Humanism, Dante included characteristics of humanism in his works during the Middle Ages. Dante Alighieri in the Divine Comedy provides little hints of the Renaissance…

Individuals carry a great responsibility as they start to expand their families and become parents. Parents are expected to instill morals, guide children through the early stages of life, befriend their children, and support their children through the rollercoaster of life. Unfortunately, some parents neglect these expectations, potentially affecting children by leaving them abandoned and closed-off to the world . In Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, Shelley examines parent-child…

mercifulness, and believes that by admitting himself as the ultimate sinner they will pity him, which is shown by Hawthorne’s diction. Dimmesdale fails to see that by giving himself this label, he is showing that he possesses yet another sin: vanity. Although vanity is usually seen when someone prides themselves, Dimmesdale is sinning because he fails to acknowledge that Hester and Chillingworth have committed similar sins, and instead is making himself the ultimate being of sin. Throughout the…