Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster Daniel Webster was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, on January 18, 1782. Daniel was delicate, but a brilliant child, his family realized this, and made great expense to put Daniel and his brother Ezekiel through school. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1805. Daniel Webster, was a well known public speaker and major constitutional lawyer; he was a major congressional representative for the Northern Whigs during

The play "The Devil and Daniel Webster" was written by Stephen Vincent Benét in 1938. Stephen Vincent Benét was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an overall temperment that would be fitting of a New England community. The main character is Jabez Stone, a wealthy New England statesman whose possition

The Political Career of Daniel Webster Daniel Webster contributed a large potion of the Civil War. To begin, he was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18, 1782. His parents were farmers so many people didn't know what to expect of him. Even though his parents were farmers, he still graduated from Dartmouth College in 1801. After he learned to be a lawyer, Daniel Webster opened a legal practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807. Webster quickly became an experienced

The Devil and Daniel Webster Movie In the movie and the short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster", written by Stephen Vincent Benet, there is illustrated the battle between the forces of good and evil. Although the story allows the reader to mentally picture the scenes and the movie does the depicting for the viewer, there are several similarities in each script. Some of these similarities are the way the characters are depicted and the final scene. There are several incongruous

story I had read was the Devil and Daniel Webster it was written by Stephen Vincent Ben’et. This story is a lot alike most of his other stories discussing what it means to be an American. Also this story is one of his most famous stories it combines folk-lore and history also it has been made into a play and so to be coming out a movie. Story Summary      In this story it begins speaking about a character named Daniel Webster, which was from Marshfield, but,

In “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet, Jabez Stone, a once poor farmer, is fighting for his soul. By his side, a powerful lawyer, Daniel Webster, stands ready to give his riches and even his own soul to do everything in his power to help Mr. Stone. The Devil or “Mr. Scratch” gives a “fair” trial for both himself and Jabez Stone by allowing a powerful lawyer to take the defendant's side and by helping himself authorize deceitful jurors and a judge to decide the

about people on the devil’s trials is called “ The Devil and Daniel Webster”. The author of the short story is Stephen Vincent Benet and the genre of the story is a fantasy. The short story’s main character is a lawyer named Daniel Webster. Daniel Webster defends a man in court named Jabez Stone. Daniel Webster is protecting Jabez by going on trail against the devil. The judge of the trail is John Hathorne. The trail was rigged against Webster because, the judge was the executor of the Salem Witch Trials

Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. These men all died nearly a decade before the civil war began, but they didn’t know how much they would effect it. States’ rights was a very controversial issue, and one which had strong opposition and radical proposals coming from both sides. John C. Calhoun was in favor of giving states the power to nullify laws that they saw unconstitutional, and he presented this theory in his “Doctrine of Nullification”. Daniel Webster strongly disagreed with this

Intent and Motive in The Devil and Tom Walker and The Devil and Daniel Webster      Washington Irving, in writing "The Devil and Tom Walker", and Stephen Vincent Benet, in writing "The Devil and Daniel Webster" illustrate to the reader the consequences of man's desire for material wealth and how a person's motivation for a relationship with the devil affects the outcome of the "deal". In these two different, yet surprisingly similar narratives, the authors present their beliefs about human

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Benet is a classic American short story. The story is about one lawyers attempt to best the devil in court. Daniel Webster is petitioning that his client Jabez Stone be released from a contract where he signed his life and soul away to the Devil. Now it is easy to see immediately how this story relates to religion and Christianity. The title alone gives it away by mentioning the Devil. But the story itself truly shows how Americans present themselves to the