Pseudonym Essays

Why do some authors use a pen name? Do they use one because of how their real name might affect their audience? Do they want to write or publish more? Maybe they want to use a different name to write on a different topic or genre. Some writers use a pen name to write and publish more. For example, Stephen King has used the pen name Richard Bachman since the beginning of his writing career to be able to publish a second book every year (Source 4). Joanne Rowling or J. K. Rowling uses a pen name to

In this essay I will be discussing the strengths and weaknesses of sense perception as a way of knowing and how they come to play a part in daily lives. We as human beings rely on all our four ways of knowing to help us make decisions that influence almost everything we know, do and say. These four ways of knowing are: sense perception, language, emotion and reason; and as useful and vital these four ways of knowing are to us they do on the other hand have weaknesses. Sense perception is defined

authors have used pen names, also known as pseudonyms, when publishing books, poems, or articles. Most authors use pseudonyms to protect their identity, avoid bias, or in some cases to switch up genres. Pen names serve an important role in publishing. Many well-known authors have used pen names in many of their works for different reasons. Pseudonyms can be used to help authors in a variety of ways and are often used to do just that. Some authors use pseudonyms to protect their identities from family

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener” gives the reader a task to try to construct who Bartleby is when all the information known about him is through the title of his job “a scrivener” for the lawyer’s company on Wall-Street. The lawyer attempts to control Bartleby time after he joins him just like he has been doing with his other employees who he has already figured out but is stunned when he suddenly sees a change in his work ethic and responds with “I would prefer not to” (Melville 1489)

Why do some authors use their pen names? That’s the question that most people have. Well, most authors don’t use their real names because people may think that it either sounds too girly or too boyish. Then that may not want to read the books due to the author's name. Authors use pen names for many others reasons such as to allow the authors freedom, flexibility, opportunity, fame or money. Authors may even use it for just making themselves laugh because of the name they used. They might even think

With a pseudonym, authors can release double the amount of material, start writing a new genre, or just get a do-over. These names are useful, even more so when they are fictitious. These aliases help writers become more creative as well as help them with their writing style. But why would they want to use a pseudonym? The first reason an author would use a pseudonym is because authors can write more with an alias than they can under their own names. An author who writes without a pseudonym can

Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward De Vere?” The articles believe that there is a chance that Shakespeare did not write all of his works. Some works of William Shakespeare that are considered some of his finest works in English is Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth. In all three articles, the authors believe that Shakespeare did not write his works whether Shakespeare went to be known as a completely different name. The evidence for this can be found in the article “Was Shakespeare a Pseudonym for Edward

Swift’s A Modest Proposal Timothy Blackman Strayer University In reading the article you first have to gather some type of idea what he was talking about. I understand in society we all see a lot of people that are probably considered or labeled undesirables. I spent time trying to figure out if he was ranting about the homeless kids or he was just upset. He also then talks about abortions, which is always a debate for everyone. He later talks about trying to sell children until someone

A Victorian Hero” Charlotte changed her name to Currer Bell because she lived during the Victorian era which “discouraged women from having literary aspirations.” Charlotte Bronte’s sisters, Emily and Anne Bell, write books and poetry using male pseudonyms, which is the term for a fake name. In the article “What’s in a Name?” they used male names “in order to overcome discrimination and get publishers to take them seriously.” During the Victorian Era, women weren’t allowed to

unsurprising that she would wish to share her poetry with only her most intimate acquaintances; in publishing her work, her deepest emotions would be put on display for the scrutiny of strangers. Ferrante likely had a similar motivation for adopting a pseudonym, particularly if Elena 's thoughts and feelings are indeed reflections of the author 's own childhood experiences. By remaining anonymous, both women are able to fully explore the affective experiences of their narrators without subjecting their

at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande. I introduced myself to them at one of the Speel-Ya meetings. To protect their identities, I decided to give them pseudonyms. Although I aimed to get the perspectives of ten students, only four were willing to participate or respond to my questions. Persons consulted are as follows: Subject # Pseudonym 1

it more likely for the Federalists to win. Otherwise, state legislatures would vote against the Constitution because they wouldn’t want to lose their power. 12. Why did many of the writers in the debates over the Constitution use pseudonyms? The writers used pseudonyms to prevent people from judging the arguments based on the writer’s reputation. 13. What philosophical ideas guided the Anti-Federalists’ opposition to a stronger national government? How did those ideas lead them toward specific

and Edward Albee. Likewise, Stratfordians recognize Hamlet as an extremely autobiographical character, which the author seems to reveal himself, but are perplexed by the lack of similarity between the man from Stratford and Hamlet. Connecting the pseudonym Shakespeare to de Vere, de Vere was known at court as “shake-spear” because of his skill at tournaments and

Green, the first pseudonym of many pseudonyms used during his career as a writer. He wrote about 100 detective novels and crime novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making it easily the best-selling American writer of his time. In the early 1920s Gardner began writing Western and mysterious stories for magazines, often under the pseudonyms of A.A. Right, Carleton Kendrake and Charles J. Kenny. At that point, he also began

Ellery Queen is a pseudonym for two cousins named Manfred Lee and Frederic Dannay, who were both born in Brooklyn in 1905. Lee would eventually have seven children and Dannay would have three. Through hard work and cooperation these authors created several prominent mystery stories. The men started writing after entering a mystery writing contest for amusement when they were younger, and to their surprise, won! That very writing contest aided them in creating some of the greatest mystery books and

He had an early enthusiasm for Arabian Nights and led to his pseudonym of "Abdul Alhazred," under this pseudonym Lovecraft became the author of the mythical Necronomicon. During his youth Lovecraft was lonely and suffered from frequent illnesses, many of them psychological (Joshi 3). Due to his constant illnesses, his school attendance was sporadic. Edgar Allen Poe influenced Lovecraft first works. On the days when illness struck Lovecraft, he would spend his time in his grandfather's extensive library

folk be capable of writing some of the world's best plays? William Shakespeare was a commoner who couldn’t write. In one document you can see six of his signatures, they were all drastically different. William Shakespeare the writer, could be a pseudonym for various people. It is highly unlikely for someone that couldn’t sign their name, to write some of the best plays in the world. With the evidence that Shakespeare was a commoner that couldn’t write, how did he get information about royal life

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs is Jacobs life story under the pseudonym Linda Brent. Jacobs’ main focus or theme in the novel is motherhood and the effects of slavery on the female sex. She directs the novel to a female white middle class audience. She initially wrote the novel under a pseudonym to protect her identity and herself from cruelty because it was published in 1861, also the year the civil war started. She agreed to writing her story to expose the wretched life

England Courant when he was 12 years old. His style of writing was greatly influenced by the English periodical, The Spectator, which was widely read and popular at the time. He contributed letters and essays to the Courant under various pseudonyms. Under these pseudonyms, he would write on the current state of affairs or issues of the time with, comical, witty, and satirical points of view. He later went on to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to create his own paper, the Pennsylvania

The very name of a character is a vital aspect of one’s personal identity, revealing particular details of a place of origin or background. In Vladmir Nabokov’s, Lolita, the role of naming takes various forms as a motif and both a characterization and stylistic device. In order to understand Nabokov’s use of names, one must understand first that the novel is written by protagonist, Humbert Humber, as confessional for a murder he has committed. Therefore, false names are used to protect the identity