Instead of answering the question‚ the reader says “be it so if you will‚”. The narrator says this because whether it was a dream‚ or real‚ it does not matter because Goodman will still be cursed. Goodman is cursed because of all of the supernatural events leading up to his return to Salem Village. Goodman will never be able to see good in‚ or trust the people of the village again. He does not trust his wife faith‚ the deacon‚ or Goody Cloyse in particular.When spiritual matters are concerned‚ it
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In the article "Young people’s mental health: the spiritual power of fairy stories‚ myths and legends" Steven Walker correlates the main ideas and concepts on fairy tales to the building of healthy physiological children and young adults. He starts the article off by telling the story of the Greek legend of Oedipus that where a King and his wife are prophesized as having a child that will grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. In an effort to derail the prophecy they pierce the child’s
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relational and understandable. While Young Goodman brown‚ may have “taken a dreary road‚ darkened by the gloomiest trees” (Hawthorne p.1) the universality of discovering one true self‚ lays within the conquest of hardship and adversity. Providing historical figures serves as intellectuals who surpass the boundaries of standardized community prospects‚ resulting in diverse outcomes and eye-opening perspectives.
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The Devils Highway Valdivia 1 Have you ever wonder why they built borders? Or who built them? Or who prevents and controls illegals from crossing‚ and what they do to accomplish them from crossing? In the book‚ The Devils Highway‚ by Luis Alberto Urrea defines the effects the desert has to offer for the immigrant’s entrance. The Devils High Way is a measureless desert past Mexico and Sonora
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The Fear of a Nation and the Bravery Within: Devil in the Grove It was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who famously said‚ “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”. There was a deep-seated irrational fear in Lake County‚ Florida in 1949 four black boys accused of raping a 17-year-old girl. White supremacists obsessed over controlling the black race‚ and protecting the “flower of southern womanhood”. While blacks feared for their lives. And with the influential but extremely courageous help
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Gatsby wished he and Daisy could live how he had planned‚ a long life of love without Tom. He had wished to return to the time when he could love Daisy out in public when he was the only man for her. Jay Gatsby shows his romanticism in the movie by urging Daisy to tell Tom about them. He wants Tom to know that he and Daisy are in love and that she never loved Tom. Although when Daisy decides she can’t tell Tom‚ Gatsby becomes infuriated seeing that he wants Daisy all
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In the novel The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan and George Wilson both have many similarities and differences in the way they treat women. Whether it is how they treat their wives or the way that Tom treats Myrtle‚ the woman he is cheating on Daisy with. Tom Buchanan believes that since he comes from old money and he did not have to work for his wealth that he is entitled to anything that he wants without having to face the consequences. In the novel it says “she’s not leaving me! Certainly not for a
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bathrooms”. The colored protested and fought for their rights and freedom. They made signs and marched in return of equality. In addition‚ there were many situations where segregation took place. For example‚ the issue versus Brown and the Board of Education and the dilemma between Plessy and Ferguson dealt with segregation. Fortunately‚ segregation doesn’t exist or happen today since America
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successful works into their own creations. The White Devil is a play that is inherently a combination of elements from other plays from the renaissance era. Webster borrows so many elements from other plays that readings of his very own play almost immediately call for a compare and contrast situation. This borrowing is most commonly seen with other authors using hints of Shakespeare in their own work. It is easy to see hints of Othello in The White Devil‚ although Webster’s work is not nearly as successful
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The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee includes the contradictory characters Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. These characters have identifiable similarities and differences. Tom and Boo and similar in many ways. One similarity is they are both compared to mockingbirds in the book. Another similarity is they both just try and help out. A couple examples of this is that Tom helps out Mayella to try and be nice‚ yet he goes to prison and eventually dies for it. Another example is that Boo kills
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