Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Cinema has a power to depict politics not only at its face value but to explore its dark corners. It has a chance to reveal, criticize, and satirize the national politics and social attitudes of the time. Watching and discussing politics reflected in a number of American films from the 60’s and one from the early 70’s, opened up a window for me to observe tones and attitudes of these filmmakers towards the American politics. In addition, these movies give an honest inside look into the branches of

Religion and Law In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the narrator is critical of the citizens of Boston for blindly following religious ideology—due to the absence of separation of church and state—and harshly persecuting Hester as a result. A woman cries, “[Hester] has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly there is, both in the Scripture and the statute book,” emphasizes the woman’s harsh disapproval of Hester and her desire that Hester should be executed because

Animal Farm and 1984, both by George Orwell, revealed to me how awful of a world I used to live in. Having lived for 15 years in a totalitarian regime, I had no idea something was wrong. I was crammed with shallow and heavily theoretical education; I was fed with corrupt morality, ambiguous justice, and ridiculous common sense; I was surrounded by uninspired children, unimaginative students, inept adolescents, and indifferent adults. I was like Boxer the horse from Animal Farm, working diligently

Long Ago in the 1500's there used to be a mobilization of witches. They were formed together to protect the people of Restaria. Furthermore it was over 20 witches within the radicalized group, all of them ran from Restaria. All except Seven they stayed as a united front to protect their town from the demons who rose through the night in the air. Nevertheless after the bloody war the witches bodies were never found. Also their nemesis were left on the ground to see. The whole town saw what happened

18th Century. Then, Francis Cabot Lowell, who was an American businessman and textile merchant, visited Britain and investigated the textile machinery in 1810. He made up the Boston Manufacturing Company and established a cotton mill in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1813. And then Patrick Jackson with others founded the Merrimack Manufacturing Company close to Pawtucket Falls. This was groundbreaking in 1822 because it completed the first run of cotton in 1823. Within two years, more mills and machinery

Albert Camus was a French author, philosopher, and journalist; he was born in 1913 and died in 1960. Camus did not consider himself to be one of the existentialists even in his lifetime. He founded the Group of International Liaisons. He rejected any ideological associations. The Misunderstanding is one of his works that focuses on Camus' idea of Absurd. The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953. It is a dramatized with some sort of fictionalized tales of the Salem witch trials

Emphasis on the Individual During the 19th century Romantic period, an intellectual movement known as Transcendentalism emerged. Individualism was one of the fundamental ideas of Transcendentalists. This new group believed that the individual's purity would be corrupted by organized religious and political parties. Literature in this period was affected by tenets of Transcendentalism. Many of the authors who believed in this movement expressed their ideas in their works. Transcendentalist writers

An Air Of Inconclusiveness: Analysis of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Modern critics frequently discern Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work to possess an air of inconclusiveness, which more so than often allows for divergent interpretations among readers. This shrewd attribute the novelist manipulates throughout his work permits his audience to draw their own conclusions in perplexing scenarios where a negligible explanation is given; making us constantly decipher situations in feasible or astonishing clarification

While reading The Canterbury Tales I’ve noticed some ill that should deem the character to be punished and sent to Hell after death. While some of the people on the pilgrimage didn’t commit hideous crimes compared to others, some committed acts that furthers their reasoning to go to a special dark place in Hell. Throughout the readings of The Divine Comedy and The Canterbury Tales, I am now able to place these characters in their respective circle based on what Chaucer’s characters did. The Prioress

In the midst of intense superstition, Reverend John Hale is ready to jump down a slippery Ouellette 1 slope into false conclusions. He interviews John Proctor on his faith, and becomes uneasy, “I—have—there is a softness in your record, sir, a softness” (Miller 63). As a priest, his strong beliefs lead him to suspect Proctor of witchcraft. In his mind, one who doesn't attend church regularly, and works on Sundays, worships Satan or practices black magic. Accordingly, Hale mentally concludes that