Ideas on Anne Bradstreet’s “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” a. Anne Bradstreet’s poem from personal experience “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th, 1666” was published in 1867. a. Anne Bradstreet was awakened in the night to find her house on fire. She not only witnessed her home, but all of her possessions being consumed by the fire. She sadly recounts particular items and the place they once had in the house. However, her tone quickly changes from sadness of things lost to appreciation of what lies ahead. Bradstreet gives glory to God once she refocuses on the heavenly home she will inherit.
In the essay A Step not Taken by Paul D’Angelo, there are strong connections between the layout of the story and archetype theories of story framework. One form of an archetype portrayal of a story is that of the monomyth. The monomyth consists of three stages: separation, struggle or initiation, and return and reintegration. The narrator is the main character or “hero” in the story and transgresses through these stages with his experience in the office building elevator. He enters the separation stage when he first encounters the other man in the elevator and witnesses him breaking down in sorrow.
Bradstreet’s Poem Represents Puritan Literature In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, Upon the Burning of Our House, she is awoken in the middle of the night by shrieks and screams because her house is on fire. In this poem she exemplifies characteristics of Puritan Literature. Bradstreet uses biblical allusions and praises God’s providence. Both of those characteristics are two of the various Puritan literature uses. However within Bradstreet’s poem also strays away from typical Puritan literature characteristics.
The first description she gives of her environment “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house…” suggests a gothic-like setting seemingly dark, gloomy and old (73). She then describes her state of being sick and having been prescribed bed rest. This idea of bed rest further isolates her into the confinement of a single room in the mansion. To describe her feeling I think of a person who is alive and placed in a coffin. It furthers my idea of the character having no possible recovery already given to her death bed.
The lighting is a crucial effect during this scene. We begin the scene with Commissioner Gordon’s (Gary Oldman) walking into the hallway of a integration room to find only two florescent lights are on by the door. The lights are light up the door and we are able to see the Commissioner’s full body in the light until he starts walking towards the Joker (Heath Ledger), who is only lit up enough on his face due to the soft glow of the lamp on the metal table. Right when the scene started, I like to think
My suspicions begin to rise when on one night in particular I heard my master, Dr. Jekyll, make a horrible noise in his laboratory. A glass shattered and I heard a screech unlike any I’ve ever heard. I rushed to my masters door and realized for the first time that the door was locked. This was very unlike my master indeed. He never locked the door before this very night so I knew immediately that something terrible must have happened to my master.
It is reveled that the human owners are perfectly aware of ghosts occupying their home and share “it wasn’t that you woke us” in reference to the ghosts looking around the house for their treasure ("Haunted House, and other short stories, by Virginia Woolf"). Typically, if humans are aware of ghost existence in their home or anywhere in their space, they do not adjust very well and feel uncomfortable or mostly frightened by it. While the ghosts are in their home, the couple’s thoughts reveal their complete consciousness of the ghosts searching their home when they think and acknowledge that “They’re looking for it; they’re drawing the
The clothes she has tried on last week, but decided not to wear, are lying on the floor and all over the bed. Dirty dishes are on the night stand. She may be sloppy, but she is one of the nicest people you could ever meet!! Malcolm (my husband) on the other hand is the extreme opposite. Walk into his garage everything is in its place.
She is very religious. In the story she said that Beatrice Taylor “sinned” by having an “accident.” In the story it said she read her bible regularly. The role Emily Brent played in the story was that she was accused of the death of Beatrice Taylor. Emily was then invited to vacation at Indian
One of the central questions of the play is whether Faustus dams himself entirely on his own or whether the princes of hell somehow entrap him. How do you respond to this question? While it is Mephastophilis and Lucifer who allow Faustus to access supernatural powers, it is Faustus’ own self-centred nature that blinds him from the more macabre elements of the agreement between him and Devil. Throughout the play Faustus focuses on what he wants to achieve with his powers and the help of Mephastophilis for example while contemplating on what dark magic can achieve he mentions how he can “wall all Germany with brass” and “fill the public schools with silk”. This could show that while Faustus has got a desire to learn, his emphasis on material objects distracts related to wealth distract him from observing the immoral deal that he is about to undertake.