Essays Tagged: "Demon"
Revised Proposal on Gustav Klimt
ning my artwork I was planning on creating apiece that portraied the Ying-Yang using the image of a demon and an angel ,but then I realized that it might be more interesting if I create somethingdiffe ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists
An Analysis of the Opening of Canto XXVIII
Eighth Circle of hell. In this pouch the Sowers of Discord and Schism are continually wounded by a demon with a sword. Dante poses a question to the reader:Who, even with untrammeled words and manyat ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Symbolism of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter' and particularly the Pearl
as Hester would walk through the streets, she would be looked down upon as if she were some sort of demon from Hell, that committed a terrible crime. This would give her much mental anguish and grief. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Studying the setting in the forst quarter of a boys life
ld have happen differently.2) Overly passiveEx. Does not say anything when he is bullied ie. By the Demon who was trying to disturb and get Cory in trouble during church and the Branlin twins who were ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The growing up of a young boy" Based on the book, "Bless me, Ultima".
im morals and lessons. Narsico is percieved as the town drunk, but is a good person. Tenorio is the demon in this story, as he wants to destroy Ultima. This book is about Tony's experience in adjustin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Stone Angel" by Margaret Laurence's
the outcome of her life as well as the lives of those around her. 'Pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Does the problem of evil disprove God's existence?
emony.' Thisessay parallels Swineburne's, but states that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnimalevolent Demoncreated the world. By looking at how weak the argument for cacodaemony is, one can see howunlik ... rld. By looking at how weak the argument for cacodaemony is, one can see howunlikely it is that the Demon exists and then can see that the existence of God is just as unlikely.In 'The Problem of Evil' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?
ing, Where Have You Been", there is a clear interpretation of evil in Arnold Friend and how he as a demon tries to pull Connie into the dark world of sex and emotion. Oates seems to extract scenarios ... less what really is out there. The harsh reality that Oates includes in her story is that there are demons like Arnold. Many people have interpreted Friend's character as the Pied Piper of Tucson who ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Prohibition of alcohol in the States. A Noble Experiment?
caltemperance societies sprouted up everywhere. Millions pledged to never touch anotherdrop of the 'Demon Rum'. Many of the same progressives who favored abolition jumpedon the temperance bandwagon as ... y moderate or excessive as 'immoral' or in the case of the churches, 'sinful'. So beganthe idea of 'Demon Rum'.Soon, alcohol was seen as something decent people did not associate themselves with.Stori ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
The use of horror in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
rankenstein, horror is a tragedy.In both books studied, the two main characters of the stories, the Demon (creation) in Frankenstein and Dracula both had powers. The Demon's power was super human stre ... d beheaded by four men who devoted their lives to the destruction of this monster."And now you rest demon"Said one of the four men. This shows the sorrow the men had; it shows that they understood the ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Pearl as a Symbolic Device to Work on the Consciences of Hester and Dimmesdale
e between Hester and Dimmesdale. The beautiful estranged daughter of the town adulteress, Pearl has demon-like traits. She is a very strange child, yet she is the one who leads both Hester and Dimmesd ... things Pearl says and does to Hester and Dimmesdale appear to be harsh and make her appear to be a demon child, but, at the end, the reader realizes that for Hester to finally accept her sin and Dimm ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A new chapter of Scarlet Letter, if you are asked to compose an additonal episode, heres one
and his hands clenched into fists."Reverend, today and among other days I have been viewed as a demon, an example towards others of the devil's work on earth, due to an act of passion." The tone ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Tale of Happiton" - significance
The Tale of Happiton is a great story that demonstrates many qualities about individuals. Hofstadter created a situation where the townspeople ... uation where the townspeople of Happiton were faced with a very difficult situation brought on by a demon, and would have to write plenty of postcards in order to help slow down the bell that would po ... ific date, and to keep waiting, and questioning their own beliefs on the validity of the letter the demon wrote, it caused them to lose interest, and to think of better things to do with their time. T ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
"The Odyssey" by Homer, and in "The Ramayana", by R.K Narayan.
ve and decided to seduce him by every art in her power"(Ramayana 70). This quote suggests that this demon-like character is a temptress. After Soorpanaka frightened Sita, Rama felt that her visit was ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
"On natural death" By Lewis Thomas.
techniques such as logos, pathos, and ethos, Thomas is able to alter the perception of the creeping demon into an exotic experience.Thomas' use of parallel sentences creates his mood about death an ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Of Love and Other Demons", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Love is a sacred thing, yet also a terrible demon. Without love we can't survive. When people give one another love it gives them strength and c ... people give one another love it gives them strength and confidence in themselves. Of Love and Other Demons, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is about a twelve-year-old girl, Sierva Maria, who has the absence ... en Maria and Father Cayetano Delaura. For the first time Maria experiences love, "the most terrible demon of all." She finally knows how it feels to be loved and love someone else. There love for each ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".
ound her. As an older woman faced with death, Hagar comments that, "pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they ... her prideful and stubborn personality is the very thing that destroys her relationship. Hagar also demonstrates her prideful manner and the need to rebel and prove herself when she marries Bram after ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Scarlet Letter Symbolism.
As Hester would walk through the streets, she would be looked down upon as if she were some sort of demon from Hell that committed a terrible crime. This would give her much anguish and grief. On the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr. Linden's Library- A short story that I dreamed up...don't ask why or how :D It's kind of creepy, and leaves you with a cliff-hanger- you think up the ending!
icular volume's purpose turned from a textbook to a cell. The Great Mage, Salivedor, confronted the demon that had been haunting a greenhouse somewhere in Europe. He had been called in to exterminate ... the deaths of two family members who owned the greenhouse. Not able to kill it, Salivedor cast the demon into a book, closing it and forever locking its fate. Or so he had hoped...*It had been easy, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
Gladiatorial contests.
s was when a gladiator fell he was hauled out of the arena by a slave dressed as the Etruscan death-demon Charun. The slave would carry a hammer which was the demon's attribute. Moreover, the Latin te ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies