Young Goodman Brown Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means without sinning against his own soul The evil effect on him is certain Robert Southey Nathaniel Hawthornes short story of Young Goodman Brown is a story of the obvious sinning Sinning is an inescapable part of human nature Hawthorne illustrates truth in his story by showing that evil is the nature of mankind and that every man harbors his own secret sin within his heart In the story of Young Goodman Brown Na
This year is the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird Even though times have changed quite a bit from the 1930s to the present day it still remains a timeless classic One may wonder why it still remains beloved by young and old What is it in To Kill a Mocking bird that still speaks to us so powerfully today Perhaps it is the quality of Atticuss attitude throughout the novel The childlike fantasies between right and wrong or the concept of society and how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird A
By clinging to what one is accustomed to rather than accepting modern views on questionable topics one hinders development of the younger generations Such is the case in Zora Neale Hurstons revolutionary novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in which the protagonist Janie Crawford defies her characterization as both a woman and a member of the African American community in a quest to find her true self In an effort to give Janie maximum security and protection Janies grandmother marries her off to
Their Eyes Were Watching God In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston there is an African American woman Janie Mae Crawford who goes on a journey to find the woman who is trapped within herself Janie returned to her homeland where she was seen with eyes of treachery because she had abandoned everything she owned for an absurd reason However there was one person her best friend Pheoby who was there to listen and not give in to the rumors being spread about her The novels t
Not Who We Thought They Were The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify Instead of going through this problem of all this great diversity that its this or maybe that you have just one large statement it is this Chinua Achebe In the Merchant of Venice it is hard not to try to simplify things and make the characters into what they are made out to look like but when you look closer you can see that the characters arent who we think they are All it takes is a closer look into their actions and w
Conjurers and Communists Guilty by Suspicion and The Crucible closely resemble each other even though the time periods and hysteria was caused by different things They both have similar characters plot and theme In both cases Hysteria wreaked havoc ruining lives tearing people apart pitting them against one another There are many similar characters in Guilty by Suspicion and The Crucible The first pair of characters that stand out are John Proctor and Joe Lesser They both try to turn the hyster