Arthur Dimmesdale was the town minister in The Scarlet Letter, a story of a young woman who committed adultery and faced the consequences, such as wearing a scarlet “A” on her chest. Dimmesdale was a very interesting character because he was very religious but also committed a sin that haunted him everyday. He also happened to be the man who was involved in the young woman’s adultery. He was never convicted, however he still faced the consequences everyday. Dimmesdale was a man of God.
Though assigned books in English class are not always books on my must-read list, Into the Wild was a winter reading assignment with a captivating main character, Chris McCandless. After winter break, Room 7304 discussions revolved around if Chris McCandless was “great,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s definition. As the class majority believed McCandless was heartless and ridiculous and suicidal, I couldn’t help but believe in his “greatness.” If I could meet Chris McCandless, American hiker and itinerant traveler destined to reach the Alaskan wilderness, I would ask him how was he able to block out all the societal influences, even during high school. How was McCandless able to be this strong, independent thinker without being the black sheep and
Secrets eat away at the soul, wearing it down piece by piece until there is nothing left. This causes guilt to completely cloud a vision of a person making sure the secret is concealed. This leads to the person to become consumed by the secret and can damage a person into becoming ill for keeping confidentiality. The soul suffers from containing the truth becomes ill as well. The soul becomes just as damaged as the person wounded by the truth not being exposed.
The two poems contrast with each other in their character and in meaning. While Prufrock remains strongly self conscious and questions his own existence, the man in Marvell’s poem is portrayed as a confident bachelor ready to make the most of the time he has. This contrast makes allusions
“Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.” stated Mother Teresa, wholly summing up the purpose of her life mission: to become poor to help the poor. Most would agree that this quote is uplifting, and yes inspiring. However, Something Beautiful for God, a biography relating Mother Teresa’s life written by Malcolm Muggeridge, could have been so much more inspiring if the author had restrained himself from adding his own personal insights and draining sentimentality. A biography should be written as impartially as is humanly possible in order to uphold the original facts of the subject’s life, to convey inspiration to whomever finds it himself, and to avoid cluttering or adding anything to the concise message of a remarkable person’s story.
In The modest proposal, The author Jonathan Swift gives his idea on how to eliminate poverty-stricken children in Ireland. His big scheme is that the poor children should be taken, fattened up, and used as a food supply for the wealthy. The benefits of using a child for a resource should not outweigh the ethics and rules of society. In the writing the author even begins to go into how he would prepare the kids for meals and ways he believes their taste would best benefit society.
Political Criticism Ireland had trouble with economic,religious,and many other things in the year 1729. Roman Catholic was the major population. There was many crisis in Ireland in this time period. There were very many poor people. Family couldn’t take care of themselves because they had too many children .
James Flanagan Eng 102- Toliver 07 March 2023 Swift’s “Proposal" Summary and Analysis Jonathan Swift, a political pamphleteer, Anglican clergyman, and Anglo-Irishmen, anonymously discusses in a pamphlet Swift publishes in Dublin, Ireland, the solution to famine, homelessness, economic failure, and poverty. Swift, in "A Modest Proposal," argues that cannibalism and infanticide can solve Ireland’s problems and become a prospering nation. Swift discusses that this solution will enable mothers to receive payment for selling children, allowing taverns to prosper, reducing the number of catholic people in Ireland, giving payment for debts,
What a shame it would be to never do certain things, but have all the time in the world to. In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot, that’s just the case. This poem was written about a man looking back on his life. This man, J. Alfred Prufrock, seemingly regrets not doing things, such as finding love, while he still had the chance. Throughout the poem, Prufrock is hesitant about love because he wants something meaningful for himself.
Prufrock says that there will be time one day to do many things; the time will eventually come. Then the tone switches to disappointment for he is disappointed that he did not make any effort to try to change his destiny. He feels that he did not get anything in return; he doesn’t feel that it’s worth to keep going on about his feelings. “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.” (Stanza 16, line 1)
“She turned just in time to see one of the players rushing toward her at full speed, his head craning to catch the wayward ball. She didn’t have time to react before he slammed into her.” In The Last Song, by Nicholas Sparks, a spilled soda has the power to change Ronnie’s whole summer in ways she never thought it could. Nicholas Sparks is the author of many bestselling books and if you haven’t read them you’ve probably seen or heard of one of his movies based off of the books. Some examples are Dear John, A Walk To Remember and his most famous book turned movie, The Notebook.
In the poem “For Poets”, by Al Young, the theme is the challenge of stepping out of your comfort zone and seizing moments in life. Young expands and argues his theme through the literary devices used in the poem. These literary devices include symbolism, hyperbole, and metaphor. Al Young portrays life’s obstacles, our society’s attitude towards self expression, and experiencing nature. In conclusion, life is a big obstacle and in order to live it, you must go out of your comfort zone and try your best to give it all you’ve
Alfred Prufrock” is fragmented structure itself where he uses scattered, broken pieces that eliminate the traditional linear flow of a poem. This is mostly done through his exquisite imagery. Eliot writes, “I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas” (“Prufrock” 73-74). With this fragmented image, again, we learn more about Prufrock than we do about Eliot; it explains how Prufrock would be better off being a shelled creature, such as a crab, so he is protected by his outer-covering and doesn’t truly have to interact with anyone in the real world. Eliot also uses imagery to indicate the indecisive personality of the speaker.
This self-denial gives him further resolve at the end of the poem to still refuse to propose. Eliot’s allusion to Shakespeare’s Hamlet is clever in this way because in the play Hamlet is also indecisive; so much so that he needs a reminder from his father’s ghost to kill his uncle, Claudius, who killed his father, took the throne, and married his mother (Shmoop). In this same portion of the poem as the Hamlet allusion, Prufrock admits that he thinks he’s too old to marry, that he is so old fashioned he still “wear[s] the bottoms of [his] trousers rolled” (Greenblatt 1304, line 121). This shows the reader that Prufrock still is adamant that he is not going to propose to the
Prufrock invites readers to visit his involuntarily boring life and take a look at how the people around him live. In this
