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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible are both distinctly different narratives of the Salem Witch trials. The Scarlet Letter is a novel and The Crucible is a play. While The Scarlet Letter deals mainly with the sin of adultery, The Crucible mainly deals with witchcraft. Both have obvious similarities like the…

orioThe Divine Comedy (The Inferno and Purgatorio, in this matter) without Virgil would be like coffee without cream. Without Virgil, Dante would never have completed his journey. Without reason, Dante would never have the courage to go through his redemption. We meet Virgil in the Inferno just when Dante begins to lose all hope in…

While her husband works on the ranch, Elise tends to her chrysanthemum garden daily. One day while tending to her garden, a charming tinker man pulls up to her in his wagon and tries to make a business transaction with her. Seeing that she is not interested, the tinker strikes up a conversation with Elise…

Womans were non considered to be equal to work forces. Womans were regarded as being more fragile. mentally and physically. than work forces. and in demand of attention and protection. Wifes were expected to postpone to their hubbies. Womans laboured under certain legal disadvantages. When a adult female married. for case. any belongings she owned…

Louise Mallard’s Power Hour Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a short story that speaks wonders in its one thousand words. The unique reaction of Chopin’s character, Louise Mallard, to her husband’s supposed death and her resulting death upon seeing him walk through the door allows for various interpretations to be made by…

In both Lord of the Flies and I’m the King of the Castle, the plots explore the challenges faced by individuals and the resulting consequences. Both novels prominently feature the behavior and actions of the so-called ‘upper class’, as indicated by their titles of ‘Lord’ and ‘King’. Through their works, both authors critique the discriminatory…

From the very beginning of the play Romeo is seen making very bad choices, he was heartbroken over Rosalie who did not love him back and he decided to attend a ball hosted by the feuding family the Caplet’s- despite the fact that he was not invited: just to see her. This was certainly a…

            The opening scene of act three shows the courtroom of the Salem house as Judge Hathorne questions Martha Corey about her allegedly engaging in the practice of witchcraft. Giles the husband of Mary stood up to defend his wife of the accusation and because of his act of questioning the court, Danforth along with…

Robert E. Howard was born and raised in Texas during the early 1900s, a time not too far removed from the days of the Old Frontier.  While growing up, Howard talked to many old timers who still recalled the days when Indians were a threat to the frontiersmen and danger lurked at every turn of…

The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeares most popular dramas. Its humor and comedy revolves around Kate Minola. a strong-minded adult female who is seen as a termagant due to her involuntariness to conform to the unwritten regulations of lady-hood and Pertruchio who is convinced he was born to chasten [ Kate ]…