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Use of Allegories in A New England Nun
In "A New England Nun", Mary E. Wilkins Freeman depicts the
life of the classic New England spinster. The image of a spinster
is of an old maid; a woman never married waiting for a man. The
woman waiting to be married is restricted in her life. She does
chores and receives education to make her more desirable as a
wife.
This leads to the allegories used in this short story. The
protagonist life paralleled both of her pets' lives, her dog
Caesar's and that of her little yellow canary. Both comparisons
are of restriction and fear of freedom. The animals and the woman
of this story are irreversible tamed by their captivity, and no
longer crave freedom. Ideas of sin guilt and atonement are also
present between the woman and the dog. These images typify
nineteenth century beliefs of women and their place in society.
This story of Louisa Ellis is an allegory for woman, and uses the
levels of allegory ironically. The stories of the dog and the
bird layer the theme to help represent Louisa's life, who in turn
represents the Eighteenth century woman of society. Louisa's
animals and their relationship to her suitor are further links
between her and her pets. The suitor brings out different traits
than the norm in both the animals and the woman of this story.
The man's influence is seen as disruptive. Man is seen as a
threat to the serenity and security of a spinster's life.
Imagery put forth by this story, and by stereotypes of the
day is of the new England spinster. Women who were not married
yet, lived a life of chores and piousness. They learned their
domestic chores and other things that would make them presentable
as a wife. They did gardening work, read literature, mended
clothing and the sort. These women were dependent on men to come
and take them, to change their lives. Those who were not chosen
were called old maids or spinsters. They typically were wealthy
enough not work, so they lived a singular existence at their
homes. Their homes became prisons. Leaving the home was possible
There are many widely recognized characteristics that are apart of Southern literature that are present in Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise Blood. Among the most familiar characteristics of Southern literature is a writing style that is based upon imagery. Another common characteristic which can be drawn from Southern literature is the struggle to understand the difference between what is real human experience as opposed to what is believed to be real, as well as the human/God relationship. Flannery O’Connor’s use of consistent imagery reinforces one of the major themes of Wise Blood – that man seems to only scratch the surface of things, and not see deeper into them.
I hevi biin onvulvid woth on uar schuul end uar cummanoty. In uar schuul I wes numonetid fur hied uf Prum cummottii thos yier. Thos pusotoun os qaoti strissfal bat I wuald nut hevi ot eny uthir wey. I injuy biong ebli tu hilp end pat my merk un ot fur uar schuul. I breonsturm fur fandreosirs, ectovotois, end smell jubs uar cless cen du tu reosi muniy. I elsu git tu chuusi uar rivinai, thimi fur prum, end dicuretouns. I du ell uf thos wothon uat toght badgit. I try tu meki iviryuni heppy woth my dicosouns end I thonk I du e foni jub. Alsu wothon uar schuul I injuy hilpong woth uar yuath prugrem. I hevi hilpid uat woth thi yuath beskitbell prugrem meny tomis. Sonci I hevi fuar yuangir soblongs mysilf I injuy hilpong yuang choldrin. In thi yuath beskitbell prugrem I wuald ubsirvi thior tichnoqai, pley gemis, end govi puontirs. I elsu hilpid woth e tuys fur tuts. I hed tu hilp ricraot piupli tu brong tuys end I hed tu duneti tuys mysilf. Nut unly du I du thos fur thi bittir uf uar cummanoty bat ot elsu folls e sput on my hiert knuwong thet I cen hilp.
Throughout history, the story of womankind has evolved from struggles to achievements, while some aspects of the lives of women have never changed. Poet Dorianne Laux writes about the female condition, and women’s desire to be married and to have a home and children. She also seems to identify through her poetry with the idea that women tend to idealize the concept of marriage and settling down and she uses her poetry to reach out to the reader who may have similar idyllic views of marriage or the married lifestyle. Though Dorianne Laux’s poem “Bird” reads very simply, it is actually a metaphor for an aspect of this female condition.
In Rosalyn Schanzer’s Witches! The Absolutely True Disaster in Salem, the author discusses how the Salem Witch trials started and how the Puritans believed the witches should be tortured or killed for being a witch. Many people were accused of being witches. Many people thought the accused should die but some were somewhat nice and didn’t think they should die just in prison. Every puritan believed them because the dad was a reverend and everyone believed him so they all accused people. The causes of the Salem Witch Trials were disease, revenge, and attention.
Some say to sin is to go to hell, some say sin is a scourge of human nature, some say sin must be confessed, and some say sin must be forced out of people through punishment. The internal consequences of believing one has sinned are more intangible than social attitudes toward sin, but they appear just as often and in just as many different ways. The novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, exudes sin. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne uses symbolism to demonstrate the effects of sin not only on public reputation, but also on one’s psychological state. The Scarlet Letter A, which Hester Prynne wears on her chest as punishment for adultery, causes her anguish through ignominy but allows her to improve over time through the public nature of her disgrace. Chillingworth, the leech, punishes Reverend Dimmesdale for his concealed sin, and yet at the same time wastes away due to his own sin of sucking the life out of Dimmesdale. Pearl, the illegitimate child of Hester and Dimmesdale, embodies both the open and the concealed sin of her parents. She is unable to be normal because of this and takes on wild and elf-like qualities.
"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story that was first published in the 1836 edition of the Token and Atlantic Souvenir and reappeared over time in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The short story narrates the events that follow Reverend Mr. Hooper's decision to start wearing a black veil that obscures his full face, except for his mouth and chin. Mr. Hooper simply arrives one day at the meeting house wearing the semi-transparent black veil and refuses from that moment on to take it off, which leads to the loss of his fiancée and isolation from the world. Mr. Hooper even goes as far as to insist on burial in the black veil. Yet, what is crucial to note are Mr. Hooper's last words to those surrounding his deathbed. Mr. Hooper tells them in anger that all of them wear black veils: “I look around me, and, lo! on every visage a Black Veil!” (Hawthorne). This declaration underlines the meanings of the veil in the story as symbolic of sin, darkness, and the duality within human nature. Thus, "The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a literary work of art that demonstrates the author's use of allegory to highlight the psychological angle of the story and characters using agents of symbols, setting, characters, and actions in a coherent way to represent non-literal and metaphorical meanings about the human character (Abrams 7).
Over three centuries ago, Witch Trials plagued the thirteen colonies. Many men and women were tried based on flimsy evidence and eventually hung for their “crimes”. Being a sore spot in American History, Nathaniel Hawthorne felt the brunt of it. His great-great -grandfather, William Hathorne, was the judge during the famous Salem Witch Trials where he condemned and executed several citizens. On Nathaniel’s way to becoming a renowned author in the United States, Nathaniel changed his last name by adding a ‘w’ to distance himself from his family's past. He later published The Scarlet Letter, which can be described as an attack on the Puritan religion and their behavior. Nathaniel contrasts Puritan and Romantic characteristics to highlight the close minded thinking and behavior of the Religious community in the 1600’s, while allowing Hawthorne to expose the ignorance that enveloped his ancestors.
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter, chapter 5 "Hester at Her Needle," Hawthorne uses torturous, diction and allusion to emphasize the torture that society creates. In this passage, Hawthorne really sympathizes Hester and shows that she’s independent and she can take care of her daughter, Pearl by herself, without the community and society taking her away from Hester.
Figure 1 compared the change in temperature in Celsius during evaporation for ethanol and 1-propanol over a time period in seconds. Due to its higher molecular mass, 1-propanol (60.09 g/mol) was harder to evaporate than ethanol (46.06 g/mol). Both substances had very low changes in temperature because of their hydrogen bonds and dispersion forces as well as relatively high molecular masses, those factors made it hard to break their bonds and make them evaporate.
Apartheid essentially aimed at keeping non-white communities from thriving in any way, through racial segregation. Amandla! Focuses on the apartheid that took place in South Africa, primarily from 1948 to 1994 (1). This segregation was headed by the National Party government, which was run by a group of Afrikaner nationalists. The National Party government segregated non-whites into contained, separate neighborhoods, which were generally in very poor condition with strict laws. These laws prohibited non-white South Africans to come in contact with white South Africans through separate facilities. One law required non-whites to carry passbooks to restrict their presence in white areas.
When a person confesses, he releases the pent up angst that broods inside of him due to feelings of guilt or shame in order to free himself of his wrongdoings. However, if a person does not remove his internal conflict from his conscience, his physical and mental state suffers. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale keeps his affair with Hester Prynne secret from his Puritanical community in Boston, while Hester is openly punished for the crime. The two protagonists struggle on the journey for forgiveness for their sins. Throughout The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne actively uses symbolism to compare and contrast the psychological state of Hester and that of Dimmesdale to elucidate the theme that relief and redemption are only possible by showing public penance for one’s sins. Hawthorne specifically uses the symbols of the scaffold, the scarlet letter, and light and dark imagery to make this point.
Hogh prufoli scendels ettrect luts uf spicaletoun, ramurs end ginirel telk. Thos scendel wes nu doffirint. Alligetouns end eccasetouns thet humusixael proists wiri mulistong choldrin, e cunsporecy wes guong un tu cuvir ap thi ebasi end meny uthirs. Thi charch hed e stady duni by risierchirs et Juhn Jey Culligi. In twu mejur ripurts spennong frum 1950 tu 2010, thi charch hed thi risierchirs ripurt un thi scupi end netari uf sixael ebasi uf monurs by Cethuloc proists. Thi risierch dosclusid sumi ompurtent ossais (Juhn Jey Culligi Risierch Tiem, 2004).
The life of Ted Hughes contributed to many of his works. He is often referred to as one of greatest English authors in the twentieth century. He was born on August 17th, 1930 in Yorkshire. His family had moved to Mexborough when he was only seven to run a newspaper and tobacco shop. He attended the Mexborough grammar school, and wrote his first poems from the age of fifteen, some of which made their way into the school magazine. Before beginning English studies at Cambridge University (having won a scholarship in 1948), he spent much of his National service time reading and rereading all of Shakespeare. According to report, he could recite it all by heart (Ted 4). While at Cambridge, he switched his major from English to Archaeology and Anthropology in his third year. He published his first book of poems In his last year at Cambridge, 1954. He used two aliases for his early publications, Daniel Hearing and Peter Crew. From 1955 to 1956, he worked as a rose gardener, night-watchman, zoo attendant, school teacher, and reader for J. Arthur Rank, and planned to teach in Spain then move to Australia (Life 3). On February 26, there was a launch of the literary magazine, the St Botolph's Review, for which Hughes was one of six co-producers. That very same day he also met Sylvia Plath, his soon to be wife. Hughes is what some have called a nature poet. Ever since he was younger, he had been a hunter and countryman. Some believe this to ...
Many factors, such as population, the industry, and the economy today affect the job market, but education is the key to success. Robert B. Reich in “U.S. Income Keeps on Rising” shares his viewpoint and categorizes jobs related to diplomas and degrees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics in “Tomorrows Jobs” provides statistical information of which jobs will increase through the year 2002 to 2014; also lists subcategories, such as government and healthcare jobs, providing information regarding how much they add to the national product. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides information on nursing a major competitive job in today's market.
In order for a business to be as successful over a long period of time, it needs to be adaptable and have a relationship centric approach to its business. From the introduction of FORTRAN allowed IBM and its customers to develop in a common language that could be shared and understood easily. I believe that it is this spirit that has led to the creation and use of DeveloperWorks.