Recognized as Cassandra Clare, Judith Rumelt was born on July 27, 1973 the daughter of writer Richard Rumelt and Elizabeth Rumelt a business school professor. Clare spend her childhood moving place to place in England, France and Switzerland where eventually found an interest in books. During high school in Los Angeles writing began to attract Clare from a novel named “The Beautiful Cassandra” by Jane Austen. Clare began her career as a reporter after majoring in English in an entertainment magazine writing fanfiction inspired by other books like The Lord of the Rings and The Draco Trilogy by Harry Potter (Famous Authors). Cassandra also worked on anthologies for short stories on fantasy such as Magic in the Mirrorstone, The Girl’s Guide to …show more content…
defeating the Dark Lord and So Fey. It was not until 2004 when Cassandra started off as a serious writer when publishing City of Bones, the first segment to the Mortal Instruments Series. “The first book in the series instantly topped the New York Times bestseller list and paved way for the next two installments, City of Ashes (2008) and City of Glass (2009)” (Famous Authors). Imagination can create the simplest thought into a miraculous form of art. Cassandra Clare’s use of fantasy in her novels help establish a different level of darkness and supernatural viewpoints. The creation of the Mortal Instruments Series was first established when Cassandra saw black painted footprints on a ceiling in a tattoo shop. In her eyes it seemed to be a trace from a supernatural battle and developed the idea of demon hunters in a secret society where magic elaborates by a system of tattoo runes. A battle between good and evil with heroes, horrific creatures, enchanted weapons, modern places which include abandoned buildings or skyscrapers. “I wanted to create a world where the city became the forest- where these urban spaces hold their own enchantments, danger, mysterious and strange beauty” (Clare). A majority of fairy tales held darkness and magic in a forest, but Cassandra wanted to add the danger within the city to express the natural beauty that could be hidden in the unexpected. The supernatural genre is a form of art with a combination of horror and fascination from an abnormal world that is not shown in society. It is seen as a sign of danger that includes spiritual aspects in a way where no one would dare to get involved. Darkness gets dragged in since evil gets involved from the ignorance, deception or betrayal one has. As James Poniewozikjan would say, “Boredom is a natural part of development to grow restless with the cosseted world you were raised in and thus prepare to separate from it. Fantasy fiction is custom fit for that stage of life or at least a certain mode of fantasy is” (Poniewozikjan). Cassandra Clare separated herself to a whole other world to develop something more than just a fantasy story. It is a domain filled with unordinary sights where the reader begins to understand how this place transforms one’s mind differently than other novels. Converting appearances to distinct paranormal and vagueness with enchanted features, settings or individuals. In the novel of City of Bones, a young teenager witnesses unusual characteristics apart from everyone else and discovers that she is a descended of Shadowhunters (group of warriors who fight evil aspects).
Within the last twenty four hours Clary tries to figure out why her mom disappeared and how she is connected to this unfamiliar shadow world. During Clary’s visit in the Shadoworld, Cassandra Clare decides to indicate supernatural and darkness with creatures, weapons or locations. In Cassandra’s volumes, Downworlders tend to be any hybrid living being that are part demon and part human including vampires and werewolves. Demons are known as beings who serve Satan traveling in different dimensions destroying anything in their way. Demons come in variety of forms and some common demons would be ghouls, poltergeist, hobgoblins or goblins. Cassandra added other appearances to demons such as Agramon who transforms itself to the target’s greatest fear and scares them to death. Agramon’s figure is an enormous dark cloud of gas with glowing eyes. Azazel was defined to be one of the angels who fell with Lucifer teaching humanity about weapons leading to the corruption of wars. While Shadowhunters (part human and angel) known as Nephilim are warriors who control or keep the peace between human civilization and the Shadoworld. Shadowhunters have custody to power from enchanted objects against any intimidations happening among both
worlds. These Shadowhunters possess variety of weaponries like seraph blades, polearms, aegis, athames or ranged weapons to fight off any kind of threat. Aegis is a type of blade made from the Iron Sisters that had been moderated and raged in angel blood. Athames is a double blade covered with tattoo runes which are used when summoning demons to carve magical forces against it. Tattoo runes are markings that grant supernatural abilities for Shadowhunters when fighting against demons. Cassandra Clare’s friend motivated her to research the history of tattoos and stated, “It was believed in many cultures that marking your skin, with paint or tattoos, would bring you bravery in battle along with other powers” (Hayman). Cassandra’s inspiration toward the history of tattoos shaped a dependable effect during a battle between darkness and bravery. Without it Shadowhunters would have a less opportunity going up against their opponent from other distractions and using only force would not be enough to kill them. These marking give different significances such as courage, vision, binding, healing and loyalty. Themes are expressed in variety of topics to adapt stronger statements within the story. Locations put meaning to the story line regarding the supernatural or the darkness genre because they foreshadow characteristics demonstrating viewpoints from distinct characters in the book. Just as in the novel, The Silent City, the vampire hideout and the institute provide examples to the diverse environment they live in. As the search for Clary’s mom goes by she was sent to a place called The Silent City which is located in the New York cemetery underground to visit the Silent Brothers, Shadowhunters who serve as medics. When entering the grave, “A set granite steps led down into the hole, their edges worn soft by years of use. Torches were set along the steps at intervals, flaring hot green and icy blue. The bottom of the stairs was lost in darkness” (Cassandra 179). Hitting the bottom of the floor there was a pure ashy ivory marble floor surrounded with white vaults which were tombs. The Silent City holds the council, criminals, a graveyard for past Shadowhunters and other information that cannot be given to non-brothers. The Silent brothers dedicate themselves as keepers of knowledge in the Nephilim who do not engage in battle because they pursue in research. The Silent Brothers keep record on everything that relates to the Nephilim guiding Shadowhunters with the need of further information for demon responsibilities. In interchange for their abilities they gave up part of their humanity allowing them to no longer leave trace of any kind, no longer sleep or not being able to move their mouths when speaking. Cassandra Clare combines both the location and the characters to demonstrate how every detail can connect to anything involving the Shadoworld. Authors have a tendency to include messages throughout their work in order for it to proceed. Disagreements may occur in any novel from readers who have distinct perspectives than others either if it is from the characters or the plot. Behind the concept of City of Bones, Cassandra Clare managed to attract disagreements about the racial and sexual representation written in her novel. In the past centuries discrimination had a reputation where characters appeared only in a few different ethnic groups. During an interview with The Book Thief Cassandra clarifies, “how she wants to represent the ethnic makeup of a modern city she’s setting her story in like it is reality and not just have an all-white, minority-less cast of characters” (Book Thief). Cassandra Clare wants to give readers the chance to see other races because the world is not only about a single morality. Cassandra’s decision to support contrasting characters give respect to the readers who are represented in her work. Cassandra Clare decided to openly write about a gay character in her work. “I’ve had my books banned in some libraries and schools, which is a really weird feeling and angry letters from people” (Book Thief). Clare understands the importance of showing these type of representations because there are readers who are homosexual and providing these appearances let them feel accepted. Clare wanted to furnish these certain subjects so people can begin to feel comfortable and acknowledge those sort of situations. Cassandra triggers passionate thoughts in her writing to make her readers react emotional toward the characters and their actions. Karen Jensen described her response to one of Clare’s novel, Lady Midnight as “Every second of this book had me either bawling my eyes out or sitting on the edge of my seat, ready to jump out of my own skin” (Jensen). Emotional drama brings readers to get frustrated, in love, amazed or surprised during the course of the story. Clare’s writing makes the attention for readers to feel the urge of becoming part of the Shadoworld to kill demons. During the course of The Mortal Instruments Series, Cassandra Clare does not give readers a brief summary on what is happening. “Many authors give their readers a little recap in the beginning of each book” (Paige). This sort of book layout can manage readers to not bore themselves out with the same information they already knew and make them feel interested into reading the series. The characters begin to change such as Jace who began to have a terrible attitude and personality. “The characters are tested to their limits and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they want to be” (The Book Thief). The development between the characters was transformed into adults throughout the novel by handling their own choices and emotions. Cassandra Clare is known for her spectacular Shadowhunter series, but others claim she had willfully copyrighted another author. Sherrilyn Kenyon is suing Cassandra Clare for plagiarizing her Dark Hunter series because variety of her fans had alerted Cassandra’s reference, “Shadowhunter” in her Mortal Instrument Series. “Both the Dark Hunter series and the Shadowhunter series are about an elite band of warriors that must protect the human world from the unseen paranormal threat that seeks to destroy humans as they go about their daily lives” (Biedenharn). The Dark Hunter series has a similar story line about a teenager who took part of a supernatural group fighting against spirits with magical armory. Cassandra’s publisher even printed copies with Kenyon’s mark on the cover causing confusion in marketing. Kenyon claims that Clare stole her idea of using enchanted objects, but magical cups, swords or powers have been told through older times in the supernatural genre. “Sherrilyn Kenyon didn’t invent the idea of band of humans fighting supernatural, and that she’s claiming ownership over the idea that most humans are blind to a supernatural world and are given a name. She didn’t invent that” (Flood). A professor named Milan explained how someone cannot copyright ideas only the expression of them, if copyrighting ideas was plagiarism then no one would be able to write anything (Flood). Supernatural ideas is passed through different varieties of stories containing magic on either spirits, beings or weapons. The difference with Cassandra Clare’s work would be the thought she put into the descriptions for her novels because the characteristics given for the locations or the characters gave an impact to hundreds of people. Detailing differently to paranormal aspects is what impacts the significance that is given to the readers. Cassandra Clare’s reference in changing the dark-hunter word onto Shadowhunter does not measure up to the other themes like the darkness or supernatural genre that Clare provided. “As in other young adult fantasy stories the supernatural is a metaphor for being thrown into harsh, grown up life with demons” (Poniewozikjan). Clare put her mind to another dimension from a single footprint and converted it into the Mortal Instrument Series. Inspiration around the world is everywhere, someone just needs to look closely, and the unexpected is precisely what happened with Cassandra.
At that time, Viola Desmond was the one of the only successful black canadian business woman and beautician in Halifax because there are were very few careers offered to the black. She Attended Bloomfield High school and also, studied in a program from Field Beauty Culture School, located in Montreal. These schools were one of the only academies that accepted black students. After she graduated, she promoted and sold her products because she wanted expanded her business;she also sold many of her products to her graduates. In addition, she opened a VI’s studio of beauty culture in Halifax.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is one of the most respected and admired novels of all time. Often criticized for lacking substance and using more elaborate camera work, freely adapted films usually do not follow the original plot line. Following this cliché, Roland Joffe’s version of The Scarlet Letter received an overwhelmingly negative reception. Unrealistic plots and actions are added to the films for added drama; for example, Hester is about to be killed up on the scaffold, when Algonquin members arrive and rescue her. After close analysis, it becomes evident of the amount of work that is put into each, but one must ask, why has the director adapted their own style of depicting the story? How has the story of Hester Prynne been modified? Regarding works, major differences and similarities between the characterization, visual imagery, symbolism, narration and plot, shows how free adaptation is the correct term used.
The novel “The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850 and is probably the book for which he is most famous. He was a prolific writer and wrote many short stories, a few collections, and several novels during his writing career. Nathaniel Hawthorne was injured as a child and became an avid reader and decided that he wanted to be a writer. Though he was a lackluster college student, after graduation he returned to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts and began his writing career in earnest. Not only did Nathaniel Hawthorne have one of his ancestors who had been one of the three judges involved in the Salem witch trials (of which he was not too proud, but it probably helped his career because it was depicted in his writings), but also he had many influential friends to include President Franklin Pierce, Henry David Thoreau (Author), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet), Herman Melville (Author) and he had actually rented the “Old Manse” mentioned in “The Scarlet Letter” from Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist). The “Scarlet Letter” is a work of non-fiction, but the preface is loosely based on Hawthorne’s actual life due to the fact that he actually did work at the Customs House in Salem and did lose his job there, which gave
July 7, 1865 Mary Surratt was hanged for her suspected part in the killing of Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt should not have been executed. Surratt had conspirators that defended her and she also maintained her innocence throughout the trial.
“Burn the witch!” has been a condemning cry for centuries, but those flames are not always real. Words, looks, and guilt can burn a sinner far more effectively than the pyre ever could, as evidenced by the torments inflicted on the sinners in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each of the characters was burned in a different way, just as they represent different types of sin. Hester Prynne, the adulteress, represents open, acknowledged, and public shame. Through her, we recognize that acknowledging sin eventually leads to forgiveness and healing, in contrast with Reverend Dimmesdale, who represents the festering wound of concealed sin. And the depraved man who seems to be sent to torment them both, Roger Chillingworth, represents revenge, and punishment for sin. Hester Prynne, who wears the Scarlet Letter, has her ignominy before the whole world. Her scarlet A reminds both Hester and everyone else that she is an adulteress. Much of The Scarlet Letter talks about her treatment at the hands of the townspeople, because her transgressions are out in the open, and they can punish her. On the other end of the spectrum is the Reverend Dimmesdale, who fairly goes mad from guilt. Every person considers him a godly, amazing man, while he has actually sinned as much as Hester. His concealed sin eats away at him, and he constantly wishes that he would be brave enough to confess. Some of Dimmesdale’s torments are the cause of Roger Chillingworth, Hester’s former husband. Through Chillingworth, Hawthorne reveals the evilness of revenge. He also represents the punishment for Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin, and is a physical manifestation of their torment. At the same time, Chillingworth is both revenge and punishment. And in addit...
Even Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers of all time, had trouble answering this age-old question: what’s in a name? Are we defined by our given names, our nicknames, or by our personalities and actions, especially the mistakes we make? Nathaniel Hawthorne explores this idea with the characters in his novel, The Scarlet Letter. In contrast to modern-day Boston, Hawthorne depicts a time period where there were no deadlier sins than the lust for revenge, corruptness(especially in high society), and the overwhelmingly evident act of adultery. Vengefulness is still prominent in today’s society, but there is next to no one who showcases such a need for revenge than Roger Chillingworth. A character that should be virtually sin-free, the sister of Governor Bellingham, Mistress Hibbins, represents corruptness in the form of witchcraft in this Puritan town. There may be no better representation of sin than Hester Prynne, who bears her sin publicly and constantly; Hester embodies sin, physically and mentally. Even from the beginning of the story, it was clear everyone would be affected by Hester’s unforgivable act, especially her betrayed husband; although, he hadn’t been entirely innocent either.
In the book City of Bones, Clary is one of the main characters in this book. She is the daughter of Jocelyn, a former shadow hunter. Clary has a special power she barely knows about herself. She can see shadow hunters, while no one else can. She ends up having to work with shadow hunters to he...
It is six in the morning at an Arizona prison. A prisoner named Jonas has been awoken by the prison bell, which sounds more like a horn, and signals that it is time for the prisoners to awake. Jonas quickly gets up, makes his bed and then stands at the door of his cell awaiting a prison guard who will be doing the daily check of his cell. While waiting for the guard, Jonas thinks to himself about what his day will be like, but he soon realizes that it will be the same as the day before, and the day before that, and the day before that, and so on. Jonas then grows quickly depressed, for he realizes, as he always does, that his life is filled with repetition and he is trapped by it. Like Jonas, many characters in the novel, The Scarlet Letter, experience the feeling of being caught in one way or another . Among those characters are Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl Prynne and Hester Prynne. These characters are truly affected by entrapment.
Shirley Chisholm said, “The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, ‘It’s a girl.’” Chisholm’s quote perfectly demonstrates Puritan society which, as any society, is centered on labels and stereotypes with almost everybody being shoved into a group and having their fate decided based upon their stereotype. In The Scarlet Letter, while the local village views Hester through the Puritan image that women are sinners or temptresses, the audience sees that she does not necessarily fit into their characterization of her. Although she does not directly defy societal norms, the reader is able to see Hester breaking away from society. How Hester interacts with the people that are a part of the society demonstrates the unwillingness of Puritans to be accepting, however, when looking at the broader storyline, it becomes evident that Hester is not correctly stereotyped.
One of eight children born to George and Cassandra Austen in 1775, Jane grew up in a happy, loving home, filled with spirited, candid conversations (Teuber 5, 8). Although Jane was “discovered” again during Victorian times, she grew up during the Georgian era, which is considered a period of enlightenment (Laski 24). She was especially close to her only sister, Cassandra, and when she was sent away to school, Jane accompanied her even though she was only six (Swisher 16). Her mother commented, “If Cassandra were going to have her head cut off, Jane would insist on sharing her fate” (Laski 23). At eleven year of age, Cassandra and Jane came home and the rest of their education was overseen by their father (Swisher 16). Mr. Austen had distinguished himself in college as quite a scholar and had built up an extensive library which was at the girls’ disposal (Laski 24). The entire family were avid readers and no restrictions appear to have been placed on what the girls could read (Halperin 26). Although not very organized, the girls received a better education than most girls at the time (Laski 24).
People are influenced by everything from jobs, music, fashion, certain people, even to different cultures. Chefs never seemed like the group of people one would expect to have an impact on the world, but they do. They change the way people see food and show that it is far more than just a way to stay alive it is sort of like a new way of life to say. There was one woman who changed the scene entirely, by graduating from the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu, publishing 19 books, airing 13 television shows, and having 8 DVD releases. Julia Child has been an inspiration for many cooks but has also influenced society as a whole while changing the way people thought about food and at the same time, revolutionizing the professional cooking industry for women.
Throughout the course of history, the concept of women being subordinate to men has always existed. However, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, a woman named Hester Prynne tries to break prejudicial notions against women in a patriarchal society. In the story, Hester commits the crime of adultery and is sentenced by the government to wear a scarlet letter as it symbolizes ignominy. Since she lives in Puritan New England, the people do not value women a lot, her actions becomes a sight of public scrutiny. Yet, with her strength as a woman, she is able to not only survive the situation, but also reverse as she later becomes an important member of their community. In a feminist perspective of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter,
Cassandra is one of those characteristically Aeschylean women who are touched with a divine force that expresses itself in a visual and visionary imagination.