Young Goodman Brown

Literary Analysis: Dante’s Inferno The first Canto in Dante’s Inferno, sets the whole poem in motion, giving us an immediate look into the vivid descriptions of Hell through the eyes of Dante the pilgrim. Not only do we ‘see’ that which is happening through his journey, but we also begin to feel Dante’s emotions as well; his hope in seeing the sunlight over the mountaintop and then his fear of the unknown- the beasts who block his path to hope and salvation. At the beginning of this poem,…

The story, “A Devil and Tom Walker” has many important themes. These themes are important, because they make the story play out in a certain way. Some of these important themes include, greed, values, religion, manipulation, bargains, moral decay, temptation, morality and corruption, misery and evil vs. good. This story has the theme of greed, because it shows that Tom is greedy and that is why he ends up the way he ends up.…

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…

Have you ever played any discouraging pranks on others of had them played on you? In the exciting book “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” written by Mark Twain, the main mischievous sneaky character was Tom Sawyer. Tom screeched out many scary and dreadful pranks that harmed friends and family. You may be wondering, where these pranks great, bad, or where they even kind of both? Well, somewhere okay, somewhere bad, and others where almost funny. Tom played many bad pranks. Making people think…

kingdom with complete and utter silence. And there was no sun. The forest was cloaked in this booming, resonant color of green that felt like it was going to knock me off my feet, and then steal the breathe out of my body. I was following a small brown path that was dotted with the most magnificent marbled rocks I have ever seen, and I knew exactly where I was going. At least, my dream self knew exactly where I was going. I woke up before I got to my destination, but I imagine it was a…

With a ruin standing strong in the night, a lone traveler passes by, using the light behind the never-ending barrage of clouds as his only compass. The twisted trees find home in the grassy plain bordering the trodden path to the right as the darkness closes in and a peaceful desolation takes into place. A dark and foreboding oil painting on canvas, Arnold Böcklin’s Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine, or Ruins in Moonlit Landscape, capture and illuminate the idea of the picturesque beauty of…

Nightmare in the Woods Charlotte I don’t know what I did wrong. I don’t know how I got here. All I know is that the darkness is coming closer. I can feel the cold dampness of the ground underneath me. The chill of the earth against my temple helped cool the raging pain in my head. I could only glimpse the faint outline of the towering trees. It was definitely dark out. So where was the light coming from? My eyelids felt too heavy to keep open anymore. My eyes fluttered open for the last time to…

In The Scarlet Letter, there are many symbols and themes. One of these themes is good vs. evil. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses plant imagery to illustrate his theme of good vs. evil. The Scarlet Letter contains evil elements such as betrayal and deceit, but it also contains good elements such as free spirit and positivity. Hawthorne uses weeds to illustrate the betrayal and deceit found in The Scarlet Letter. When Chillingworth finds black weeds on an unmarked grave, he says that they must have…

In “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Ernest Hemingway describes the main character accepting death with no way of escaping an infection while traveling in the safari. Harry Street is hesitant to find help and wants to peacefully pass time in a graceful manner. The man blames his wife for his own mistakes, but realizes that he is at fault for his stubbornness to what is happening to him. Ernest Hemingway portrays the woman’s importance as a significant motivation to encourage Harry to never admit…

Motivation Is In the Light Have you ever stumbled into a rough situation where you needed motivation and guidance to help you feel better? Emily Dickinson wrote two poems that showed the steps she took to get out of the darkness andto get into the light. Just like everyone, she was going through a low point during her life and eventually found the way to get better. Through all of the hardships that we go through, there is always a light of motivation that will help you through it all. You may…