The Minister’s Black Veil is considered a Gothic literature. It can be a Gothic Literature because Mr. Hopper starts wearing a black veil and the townspeople start to worry because they thought he committed a crime or possibly murdered someone. Wearing the black veil made everyone curious and wanted to find out what he was hiding from the townspeople.…
One of the most powerful movie elements to how the audience perceives a scene of the film is often looked over. Close to all pivotal movie scenes contain the little background music, also known as underscore. This powerful audio element effects the way audiences feel and react to a scene. The underscore that is present in The Book Thief greatly impacted the tone, mood, and suspense of certain scenes. Three of these scenes that were greatly impacted by underscore were when the Nazi party came to check basements for air raid shelters, when Liesel writes her life story in the basement, and when Liesel walks up Himmel Street after the bomb hits.…
Before we meet the woman, Susan Hill uses the description of the setting in ‘A London Particular’ to foresee what she is like, predicting something wicked. London was described as “Inferno” full of “red-eyed and demonic” “ghostly figures”. These all suggest that Hill was describing or comparing London to Hell, which could imply that Mr Arthur Kipps was about to enter into his own personal hell, containing a “ghostly figure” of haunting and torment.…
“Inconceivable!” Stated Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride. This amazing cinematography was written by William Goldman. This cinema is a lovely fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman named Buttercup and her true love Westley. He must find her after a long separation and save her. In this classic film, they have to battle the evils of a mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. The Princess Bride is based on William Goldman’s novel.…
I think that the point of the reading, “In Our Glory: Photography and Black Life” is seeing the struggle the black people had to go through involving the image people thought they represented, and also how photography has become an important aspect in their life. A long time ago black people had to deal with the fact that white people thought they weren’t equal. The whites were perceived to be better than the blacks. Images can be looked at in the same way. Once photography came out, black people were able to capture themselves for who they were and not for an image of them that everyone thought were unequal. These days though, things are becoming more and more equal.…
The Iroquois creation story is similar to the biblical story of creation. In the Bible, God is credited for the making of the universe and all the non-living things and living things, including mankind. The Iroquois creation story talks about two worlds, one is full of light and mankind and the other world is full of darkest and monsters. This description is comparable to the idea of heaven and hell. According to the bible, heaven is a place full of light, beauty, and this place is where God and his angel reside. While hell is a place full with darkest, pain and anguish. The sky woman is the creator of the universe, just as God is the creator in the biblical story. The good son (good mind) can be compared to Jesus. While as the bad son (bad…
In The Crucible (1953), author, Arthur Miller brings to life many decisions that drag a respectable man to the noose. This play, based on the history of the Salem Witch Trials that occurred in Salem Massachusetts in 1692, though not completely true, does follow the basic line of events. This line of events begins with curious young girls who are caught dancing in the forest by the Puritan reverend of the community, Reverend Parris. An effort to contain the events by Reverend Parris, Parris’s niece, Abigail, and others backfired and resulted in the bringing in of Puritan priests trained in the topic of witchcraft, which quickly led to a mass hysteria of witches in the community. Once accused of being a witch, a citizen had two basic choices,…
Control of reproductive decisions of black women is a highly prevalent a form of racial oppression in America. Due to this form of control, the meaning of reproductive liberty in America has been significantly altered. These issues are addressed in Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body. The novel demonstrates the way in which black women were consistently devalued as a tool for reproductive means, which in itself was a form of racial oppression. The novel also provides the reader with insight as to how experiences of black women since times of slavery have drastically changed the present day connotation of reproductive freedom.…
“Annuka told me they believe that in the forest at night the dead can see. The souls of men hunt the souls of animals,” said Daniel in the 1991 film, Black Robe. Based in the 17th century, Black Robe follows a French Jesuit priest (Father LaForgue) and a fellow companion through Quebec’s wilderness during the peak of the harsh winter months. Their escorts, the Algonquin native tribe, make attempts to lead them to a Christian mission in a Huron village too which Father LaForgue will become head priest and manage the settlement. Along the way, however, the young Priest hurtles multiple obstacles in both his faith, and with the native people. The struggle between what the natives already believe, and what the French, specifically Father LaForgue, are trying to make them understand is the cause to most the conflict, betrayal, and inevitable death in the film.…
On Thursday the 28th February we went to see a production of The Woman in Black at York Theatre Royal. The Woman in Black is a thriller, which was taken from the novel by Susan Hill. It was about a solicitor who is sent to look at the legal documents of an old lady who has recently died in a large house. When the man checks the documents he is locked in and haunted by the spectral "woman in black" and slowly uncovers the horrific secrets that lie within the house.…
The movie Black Robe portrays both the French and the Indigenous as being sworn to their own beliefs, and ways of life. Neither side had any admiration to learn about each other. The French were more open minded in thinking that the Indigenous could change and learn the religion and ways of the Europeans, while the Indigenous Indians were certain the French could never learn to be as strong and as in touch with nature as the Indians were. The French went on a pursuit to change the Indians, whom had no intent to change and become like the French.…
Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences.…
“Liberating Christ” is a critique of Langston Hughes, “On the Road” by Carolyn P. Walker. Hughes uses barely over 1000 words to narrate his story. His great skills of using metaphor, symbolism and imagery are some of few techniques of his great work. Hughes uses nature to express Sargeant’s refusal to participate in life. In Liberating Christ, Walker’s says Hughes has done serious criticism of racial discrimination. There were few other points we will be looking into oppression, anger and hardship and how all of those are put together to overcome racial barriers. To describe Racism between black and white, Hughes uses snow, dark, two doors, dark and light. All these to describe how Sargeant is discriminated and suffers on a “cold night; unsheltered, too hungry, too sleepy and too tired” (Hughes, 55).…
In a community full of judgemental sinners one decides to face the truth. Throughout the short story “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Reverend Hooper was treated as an outcast for confessing to his sins. Although Hooper was doing the right thing in God’s eyes the community thought of Hooper’s sacrifices as evil. In “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Hawthorne portrays God as Hoopers greatest value as he examines the dignity, happiness, and relationships Hooper sacrificed for his relationship with God.…
Sansho the Bailiffs main characters Anju and Zushio names change through the movie. When they are captured and put into working camps they want to keep their identities secret. They knew that if people found out who their father was they would be treated differently, possibly in an even more brutal manor. The new names Anju and Zushio were given resembled the continued struggle to survive the harsh environment they were put in, to live out their fathers ideals, and return to their mother. It was their future journey. Taro, the son of Sansho, tells Anju and Zushio to wait until their older and stronger to escape, then gives them powerful names. Anju is named Shonibu, meaning endurance, perseverance, and patience. Zushio is named Matsu-Waka,…