Young Goodman Brown Essay

Prompt:  In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899), protagonist Edna Pontellier is said to possess “that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.” In a novel or play that you have studied, identify a character who conforms outwardly while questioning inwardly. Then write an essay in which you analyze how this tension between outward conformity and inward questioning contributes to the meaning of the work. Avoid mere plot summary.

There are forces brought up to the world of beliefs and practices. The semi-existing dream or sudden epiphany recalls Goodman Brown into another a demeaning reality. The protagonist faces those who seem out of place, those suspicious upon the audience’s perspective, but not that to Young Goodman Brown’s author, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Since the protagonist travels along a path, acquainted or not, Goodman Brown senses an ever changing self in the course of a traditional society. The practices that one group may do depends on the individuals who take on the beliefs, so that’s where the protagonist struggles to make amends with his morals or with society’s meaning of beliefs
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Sonnet XXVI Essay

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,
To thee I send this written embassage,
To witness duty, not to show my wit:
Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine
May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,
But that I hope some good conceit of thine
In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it:
Till whatsoever star that guides my moving,
Points on me graciously with fair aspect,
And puts apparel on my tottered loving,
To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:
   Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;
   Till then, not show my head where thou mayst prove me.

Prompt: 1992 Poem: “The Prelude”  (William Wordsworth)
Prompt: In the passage below, which comes from William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem “The  Prelude,” the speaker encounters unfamiliar aspects of the natural world. Write an essay in which you trace the speaker's changing responses to his experiences and explain how they are conveyed by the poem's diction, imagery, and tone.

The poem fits the prompt because the speaker addresses the higher official in gratitude. In manner of speaking, the prompt suggests that the speaker of the poem can express his views of his position and takes upon poetry to a broader meaning. This Shakespeare Sonnet definitely includes diction, imagery, and tone in order to answer the prompt.

A sonnet written by Shakespeare expresses historical experiences such as an ambassador showing his utmost appearance to a higher official. By doing this, the poem settles down the loyalty of one to the employer per se. Since the speaker of the poem is of lower standing, the way of words are conveyed in the context of specific literary terms. Since the speaker changes his responses due to his duty as a servant, in turn the show of a worthy colleague, the text specifies diction, imagery, and tone of the sonnet to determine the speaker’s course of action and thought.
The speaker of the Shakespearean sonnet knows what he is being considered of. The choice of words, or diction, quoted: “to witness duty, not to show my wit”, which can be interpreted in showing his task as a messenger and not one who boasts about clever comments or intellectual quickness. There’s a drastic change in how one delivers a message transitioning “to show me worthy of thy sweet respect” so that that the audience can receive full attention. Another example of diction happens when the speaker formally acknowledges the vassal’s intellectual abilities quoted: “I hope some good conceit of thine…”
The tone of the poem is easily spotted amongst a relationship between two parties with one being subpar. That being the ambassador (to be continued)

Brave New World Essay

There is a big difference between humanity and individualism. The individual finds oneself in a world of struggle and overcomes that conflict as a whole. Humanity on the other hand is recognizing people's interest and preserving the fate of being a human. Two concepts clash in segments within the context of Brave New World. The importance of both is how much one can about how life as a person living both ideas should accept perfection among all. Even when perfection is ideal, it contradicts the beliefs of what it is to become a person who feels differently. Humans are definite in the structure of conditioning, hence the conflicts that arise in our inner self to act against perfection and outright societal demands. In the notion of outward conformity and inward questioning, literary techniques follow the deeper meaning of Brave New World in respect to the parts of understanding life through conscious determinants.

Consciousness lies between the fundamental human morals and individual thought process. Civilized people think of happiness as a luxury, such as Lenina and Bernard from Brave New World. Nothing sticks out more when soma is involved or a hypnopaedic person whose life goal is to achieve it. Because society asserts their wants for such emotions, not having someone in an example of Romeo and Juliet juxtaposes the conformist idea of having anyone they want in the suspected Brave New London. But the moral about happiness does't relate to content or rejoice, since the motif of a "blushing" or "flushed" face resembles nonchalant emotions than a reflective countenance. This internal conflict is affected by society as an outrageous practice, therefore it supports the book's deeper meaning of individual discovery. There's also a contrast in the internal feelings that Bernard suspects of transformation, but clings to ideas of a neutral state. The struggle within man himself defines the overarching solution of society fixing unruly statuses around conflicting peoples.

The world wasn't made to be perfect. Otherwise, people conceive perfection. In the novel, "universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't." The dichotomy from the text suggests that everyone should believe in true happiness while letting go of the important prospects that may tarnish the meaning of perfection. Its an ultimatum that follows no righteous morals and so divides happiness apart from truth and beauty. Humanity could be lost without acknowledging the things that built over it. "The huge table-topped buildings were no more...a bed of geometrical mushrooms sprouting from the green of a park and garden" is seen to be a metaphor to how the infrastructure people builds on comes from a source of nature. There's history to the origin of human when nature is involved and with that being taken away in Brave New World, it symbolizes a thoughtful response of consciousness toward the environment and technological progress. Its also clear to think of the closeness of people to abstract things. The simile: "Like the vague torsos of fabulous athletes, huge fleshy clouds filled the blue air..." is determined by perfect images of people that carry on a popular support for humanity.

Individualism and humanity hinders a thin line, which in turn is blurred. Civilized individuals try to figure out the world with what they think or what they hear. That's where they choose to become content with how the world perceives. One things for sure, one can't live without both present because too many problems arise when one overcomes the other. There's a balance of working things out, whether shunned by one or can't find one's purpose in life, people look for other sources. Brave New World takes the readers to the context of simple inward questioning and outward conformity so that there's a general understanding of how the current world functions. An individual thrives to questioning all sorts of things, but the main focus to solving our problems is looking back at how it all started.

Hamlet (The Madman?) Essay

Since the his first appearance on Hamlet, Prince Hamlet showed his fierceness of madness at the first hearing of the king's coronation. William Shakespeare's Hamlet demonstrates a lively protagonist that nevertheless understands no one, not even himself at most times. Drawn by hate from the sight that King Claudius takes Queen Gertrude's hand in marriage, there's no way a son would not be mad at his mother for one month of mourning a father's death. The question for Prince Hamlet is whether he can overcome his madness or step over his limit of madness to the point of insanity. Act I was the first of many levels of complete and utter uncontrollable abilities that Hamlet considered justifiable. Hamlet overall is not subdued by madness, rather than emotional breakdown. For the rest of the play, Hamlet is decisive in his choices to develop a scheme to get back at his father's murderer, but the emotional capacity Hamlet must endure expresses madness externally.

Hamlet makes out his moves by baiting other characters who are most dear such as Horatio, also compared to as a guard of maybe childhood friendship, to those of the prideful antagonist troubles, King Claudius. He also gets around to people he loves off the family ties such as Ophelia, but is very unsure of himself talking to her in a crazed manner or abusive indecency of a gentlemen when it comes to the letter and the playthrough of Hamlet's play within the play. However, Hamlet in Act 1 Scene II was well-acquainted with Lord Polonius until his suspicions arise to not trust anyone close to the King necessarily. The Prince's madness isn't drawn to attention until he spoke his ghostly father, Senior Hamlet, therefore he plays along without being audacious in finding out the truth soon enough. Hamlet hasn't been concerned at the consequences of being held prisoner or being killed within his own kingdom, but his mental breakdown initiated at the thought of hearing his mother fooled by unruly lust within the other part of the family. Queen Gertrude is half the reason Hamlet wants to go after in vengeance of his father. Betrayal struck Hamlet hard no matter what the deal was, he already lost both his mother and father and gained an unwanted father in return.

Other characters of the plot don't recognize the changing of tides the protagonist has to face. Hamlet's feelings aren't taken into consideration of how he really feels truly about the whole Uncle marry Sister-in-law relationship. There's a vacuum for power that Hamlet hadn't taken the chance to obtain because his sadness wasn't anticipated until the longing of the king's coronation. At the point where Hamlet accidentally kills off Lord Polonius, he still hadn't cared about who he killed, albeit it didn't change how he perceived to kill the king with such feeling or not. This "madness" might be facing could psychologically kill him if he knew the right reasons to kill. It definitely wouldn't do anything good for one man to stoop down at the level of the same murder, if not the same case of murder. Hamlet has needed to think about change before King Claudius is aware of some plot for crime.

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia Characters

Prompt: How do Geoffrey Chaucer's inspirations and use of literary techniques in Canterbury Tales  suggest the importance of both honoring and questioning literary and social traditions?

As humans, people of every trait and character, simplify life by putting labels on things. There are signs and symbols that represent what they are. Well, those signs and symbols remind people of certain things, for say, stereotyping. It is without a doubt a culture based on the looks of individuals and the association they are based off, mainly appearance and social trends. Political attributes to nothing of the cause of what a person might be, but the group of people that are of the same ethnicity or societal means. Characters in the long poem, The Canterbury Tales, were not only defined by their class, but how they differentiated from their stereotypical social standing. Geoffrey Chaucer enabled these characters to act different and live a lifestyle with meaning. One character in particular stood out from the rest. He abides from his culture to make amends to a new one, an evolving one indeed. He was a monk who carried his own duties and righteousness by living outside of the monastery. Chaucer greatly emphasized the narrator to meet a different perspective of the monk, which of course meant that Chaucer made a great deal of deriving the necessary literary tools to explicate labels without labeling.

Chaucer's ideas weren't his original ideas for implementing a tale of characters. He took in account for an inspiration literary piece called Boccaccio's Decameron, which was basically the same set of plotting Chaucer used to explain his characters'. 

All Chaucer did was remixed into his version, but in a simple Modern English format. Colloquial language is what Chaucer intended for, since he wanted to create something new out of something already created. Readers take in consideration that everyday talk and rabble rousing among words is what gets a conversation going, especially if its about putting a label on a certain character.

Understanding one another and each other's situations is the human right to learn new things everyday. The narrator is astounded by the presence of the monk. He's not the usual monk, but he is considered a monk by whatever the narrator thinks is worthy to be a monk-like person. Anyone can be different by whatever they carry. A burden at must, maybe, but a burden that can be changed quite quickly at the tale of a diversifying monk. This monk in Canterbury Tales just wanted to break his monastery ties and live a life where he can survive on his own and defend his property.

Assumptions only makes the person inevitable to remind oneself more than once. Chaucer was basically teaching his readers that, yes you can be these type of people, but you can also be another type of person, the one not seen in society by name calling. Questioning one's social status is best to be considered or reconsidered to the public of an ever so changing world.

Essay #4 Canterbury Tales: Transmedia (Prewrite)

Humans have judged their surroundings, judged others, and even judged themselves. Its no false conception to see the value of man degrade by what they think in the definition of judgments. As history takes the toll of making excuses for people's character, it was either race goes with this or that. Books came along and somewhat changed the perceptions of most people. Nowadays, people have access to the internet, where networking contains no privacy and so individuals are truly seen behind the curtain by just a few words written in 140 characters or a Facebook status. It used to be different back then in Geoffrey Chaucer's time, when observations explained in Canterbury Tales were based on a bemused narrator. The narrator expected nothing more about the common man and his mission to find their own piece. One of the characters would experience networking with an interested face if it were introduced back in his heyday. An unusual character like the monk would change his cultural appearance based on the new things he is offered through media and isn't defined by what he is labeled

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character," is what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. enterprised for everyone to be equally satisfied with who they are and not based on malicious polemic.

Beowulf Essay (You are Beowulf)

Prompt: Beowulf exemplifies the heroic traits and the literary techniques of its time.  Analyze this in the context of our class discussion and the commentary you read, and compare with a contemporary hero and the way his/her story is told.

You are Beowulf

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men" is a quote by Plato who describes heroes in his own fashionable way. Plato probably followed up with Greek mythology heroes who suppressed superhuman qualities, feared nothing, endured a warrior mindset, and expressed love for mankind. That same heroic mentality and physicality applies to the first Old English hero Beowulf. Readers and listeners adorned a person who can do such things that they couldn't do themselves or as a whole. A hero stands out and faces danger in the frontal assault against evil. Beowulf exemplifies such qualities that it inspires today's heroes to act the same way or present in a manner of being a true warrior at heart. Nothing could compare to Beowulf as the force behind preserving man, but it just happens that Beowulf is not the only hero as the contemporary world features heroes today.

As time prospers by, a small amount of individuals value time and exploit to do good where ever they are. They're known as BAMFs or to be more appropriate, a hero who doesn't hold onto the superhuman qualities that Beowulf has, but a person who takes the initiative for doing something morally and virtually right. We see some of these people in literature with a heroic story line that gradually adds up to the character's growth. Harry Potter for example is one of those heroes who faces wickedness at it's finest, but not alone since his friends help him along the way. Heroes in contemporary literature do not fight the battle alone necessary because having someone's back is what heroes really need during desperate times. Harry is trusted with friends like Ron and Hermione who definitely protects Harry's blindsides. Other literature protagonist such as Percy Jackson, a demigod who grows up to be as strong as his father, the god of the sea, Poseidon. Heroes like Percy always need help from friends, unsurprisingly does get aid when fighting mythical creatures. Harry and Percy are recognized to fight evil as it fogs over their realm, they face it head on just as Beowulf has without being told by authority.

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer," quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson is for people who do extraordinary things. As humans we are obscured by fate and god, which of course Beowulf knew were his decadence of a soon to be demise. In addition, there has to be a balance between the two forces, which also happens to be human action. Human action is what makes a hero viable and diverse advocate for making a difference. Whether if it's saving kids from a runaway chased vehicle by ramming it with a truck or making up money to give a homeless man a second chance, a hero is an everyday person who cares about the safety or future of others. Beowulf captured a similar sense of fortitude with his people by giving back or paying forward to make his kingdom feel content. Today's heroes do the same even if they aren't as rich and powerful as Beowulf, they care to be the anthropologist that others seek to be. It can be one who protects one's country, enforces the law, treats patients, or fights fire. Wait isn't this Beowulf? Nope, just ordinary citizens expressing Beowulf's heroic qualities. 

Upcoming heroes are not really seen in media or novels. They are the light in the dark working everyday to become the hero. Community wise, these heroes always help out to improve or volunteer. The assignments they are given are obstacles they have to match and will provide them with a heroic capacity of knowledge. The heroes of today have a kingdom within their own mindset, a future that awaits them as they fight down stress. The heroes we know now are ones who take up a challenge and can become stronger intellectually and socially. They are able to own their own choices like Beowulf has and takes no order to where they are headed. Assiduous students make ends by being aggressive when taking charge for getting something done. Students are the shadowed heroes who create their own heroic story and can tell their epicness to others.

The 21st century is not limited to one hero. We see heroes pop up from the importance of literature, the surprising media, and the destined heroes of education. A society is satisfactory to have many heroes stand up for what they believe in. Not every hero can be Beowulf, but Beowulf can't be like the other heroes.

Montaigne/Austen Essay #2

Words are what we make up at an instance from what we know and what is happening at the moment. Thoughts make up much of these words, but so much goes on that it takes more thinking to come up with words to make sense.  For Michel De Montaigne, essays were like diaries based on continuous ideas and words that seemed endless. Decisions and choices judged the actions of what a person was thinking, yet reflects how a choice can be made up at an instance.Montaigne's acclaimed written works ascertain the attitude of how much the effect of common language defines the simpleness of imagery.

Readers look for ambiguous meanings within a text, themes or the proper use of literary devices define the attitude of what the author is narrating. Montaigne’s freestyle of handwriting his thoughts, in other words piecing them together so that his readers can get the gist of the mind-boggling that goes through his head. Because Montaigne’s techniques and topics correlate to David Foster Wallace’s quote “What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant,” thus it is determined for readers to seek the author’s innermost thoughts. A part of what the world perceives is said under limited sayings and is typically missing out on the universal aspect of things if there isn’t enough to say. Montaigne’s essays generally broadens the idea of sharing Wallace’s least known facts between “sketch the outlines” and the idea of “all interconnected for words.” It’s easier to focus on one subject and continuously talk about it’s relevance in Montaigne’s essays. For example, one essay named “Apology for Raimond Sebond” was not necessarily a discrete apology for Montaigne’s friend, but the history and comments of the word apology itself. Apology is connotated into so many diverse meanings alone and primarily serves to teach readers the reality of deeply explaining one word that has a true significance.

If people see the essence of writing with confidence and the perspective of actually writing words that could have been from a seminar or a discussion with some other being/beings. Montaigne’s style reflects discussions that have happened, even if it was already discussed early on. The prospect of bringing back a subject is to establish augmentation between peers and to reach a different conclusion. Gradually, audiences will realize that his style opens a window and supports Wallace’s statement. By experimenting with common knowledge and common sense, Montaigne’s efforts for bringing back history, especially ancient Roman/Greek history, he displaces bland, start up ideas. Doing this, he establishes himself with potential concepts or opinions. “What goes on inside [...]” by Wallace is his convenience for looking for an identity, likewise is foreseen in Montaigne when he acknowledges his essays as something that disgusts him, but digresses by writing anyway. It’s the author's attitude that objectify or subjectify their organization of words. The same goes for the author of Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen, who also has a different style of writing that audiences also admire for its ironic love story and family expectations.

The name is what is suppose to be in the whole book of Pride & Prejudice, judgement and pridefulness in 18th century England. There are some ambiguous moments in Austen’s book, but Austen keeps her readers on the edge of true pride and doesn’t go straight to a climax at the height of the book. Montaigne’s style of explaining events are related to Austen’s style of holding back the main conflict until the end. The principal points of getting the reader to know what really happens comes at the near end of chapter for both authors. Although Austen deems on a questionable love story between two unlikely people, Montaigne engages in stories he has experienced or other aspects from what he’s learned and implements it in his writing. Austen’s style jumps around at separate events, similarly like Montaigne’s style of going from one subject to a whole other topic. Examples of Elizabeth being at a ball, then transitions to bedsides or friends’ houses. Montaigne’s essays consists of events that happened to him at that time and he had the need to write about it.

The basis of words relies on the speaker who is willing to share whatever they have on mind. Sometimes it takes more words to explain what is going on just as David Foster Wallace states in Good Old Neon. Montaigne’s techniques and style of writing entertains audiences who desire stream of consciousness at it’s fullest or Austen’s interpretive style of writing that readers want to know more and if that one special scene was going to happen or not, or simply end badly. It all depends on both these authors who narrate their language with inconceivable insight and knowledge. It’s like an image carries a million words to say and this how early writer displayed their work for people of common interests.

Essay #1

Everyday, no matter what the circumstances are, a person is retracted by some abstract or not so abstract force. This person is being taken away from their ‘home’, somewhere or something that matters to them, but it leads to another prospect of how they should go along living that way. In the book, The Poisonwood Bible, Adah is one of the characters experiencing a tension of relationships with her ‘home’; her family in this case. Adah is always silent, almost never talking at all, which deeply reflects how her family acknowledges her hemiplegia condition and her speechless presence. The Price family at first forces Adah into another zone, somewhat a place of ignorance or unwanted attention because of her physical condition. Adah didn't seem to care much when she didn’t acknowledge her family’s settlement in Kilanga. Exile is where Adah collects her thoughts and starts a journey within her own mindset. She not only begins a quiet observing life, though she partakes in little physical activity, Adah is determined to make use of her brain during the hardships of African life.

A laid back character is drawn out by individual family members. Leah, Adah’s twin sister, seeks confidence in herself by disclaiming Adah’s slow pace, which is shamed on Adah many times when she least knows what’s going on. Leah is the most critical individual in The Poisonwood Bible that critiques on Adah in general and simply makes fun of her. Leah casts away Adah in situations where she can’t lift or basically has no ability to talk at the moment. The event that changed how the family was truly feeling about Adah was when the village thought a lion pounced on her and was considered the prey. In that instance, the family didn't react with despair or tragedy. Orleanna Price conceived the message with sadness, but it wasn't a quick reaction as if it were the other girls being eaten by lions. Nathan Price only prayed for her, hoping that heaven takes care of her. Adah’s silent trait brings her forced alienation from the family because of the non-interaction they’re getting from one child.

Alienation is the least of Adah’s worries. The demise with family is mainly getting settled with a new place while one child enjoys her own company with herself to rid of negative attitudes. A positive attitude is what keeps Adah from being too nosy in anybody’s place of privacy. She is enriched in her subconscious, awaiting times where she feels free to do whatever she wants and without regret from her other counterpart. She knows that she is a burden at times, but can’t be faltered by the fact that she can do very little compared to her other sisters. Also, the village sees her with contempt as she is the daughter of the reverend of Kilanga and the disabilities she has interpreted the village’s faith with Christianity and their African gods. Congo life is something that Adah lives up to and expects the worst from its crucial environment to live. A little decency of respect among Kilanga native give Adah the chance to be out there by surviving a somewhat lion attack.

Two worlds brings together a moment to cherish what a person has. One exiled Adah from being called a regular in the family, but the other is to fulfill oneself with greater interest with the surrounding environment. A mindful world, slow with pacing, the exiled world that Adah endured satisfied her need to play with words even when it involved the bible or not. Being told what to do was something that Adah needed, especially coming a family that didn't what to do with a girl with a rare condition and couldn't voluntarily cast her out of their lives entirely. She was still a Price and lived up to what she can do without any real expectations.