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…of a family of true hearted, New England Puritans. Hawthorne spent some of his time with a private tutor. He had hurt his leg while playing ball and walked with crutches. Though doctors could find nothing wrong, Hawthorne insisted that he could not possibly go…

…Oedipus The King Laius marries his cousin Jocasta. (They are now the King and Queen of Thebes) They are childless. Laius goes to a future teller and the future teller tells him that he will have a son and his son will kill him and sleep…

…The dystopian novel, 'The Handmaid's Tale' implies the fact that there are two types of freedom, freedom to and freedom from. It is the paradox between 1980's America and Gilead that is examined continually throughout the novel and it's the ideas…

…to the art. Photography was eerily predicted in the mid-1700's by la Roche in his work Giphantie. In this tale, it was possible to record images from nature on a canvas coated with a sticky substance. Unfortunately the author died before he could see his fiction…

…Portrait of medieval society in "General Prologue" of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"         On the 21. September 1066 the history of England changed forever. On that day William, who will be later know…

…on the road. After having a few poems published and withdrawing from a millitary academy he eventually wound up in Baltimore, Maryland, penniless. He soon found that his relatives there were as poor as he was. Even so, they welcomed him into their homes and hearts…

…will develop and grow fetuses for the use of it organs? What will become of a child once it is used for its heart? Will it just be thrown into the dumpster like garbage? Hopefully people will detest such ideas, and forget this form of receiving new organ downers…

…to be the coldest one this year. Is it really that cold? Or is it your fiery body, which went from hot to cold, too fast. You stop. The light is red. It tells you "Stop!" And yet you go. You see a window. As you pass by, you hear an argument. You have it good. You have…

…Margaret Atwood's controversial dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, leaves the reader with the lingering question of "what if?". Set in the near future, what is known to be the United States, is overtaken by puritan conservative Christians, creating…

…Since what seems like the beginning of human civilization, the role of the female has varied from society to society. This role is symbolically represented in The Odyssey by Homer and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, two of the most famous works…