The Restoration & the Eighteenth Century

The Glorious Revolution ( Bloodless Revolution)
Charles the Second with no legal heir died in 1685, but he was succeeded by his brother James the Second, a practicing Romen Catholic. Most of the English people were utterly opposed to James because it was believed that the Roman Catholic had set fire to London and were plotting to hand the country over to the pope. After James had a little boy, pressure on his royal family became so great that in 1688 they fled to France. James was succeeded by his Protestant daughter, Mary and her Dutch husband, Willam of Orange and thus the so-called Glorious Revolution was accomplished (1688). This period played an important role on our American history. If things would have went differently with King Charles the Second and his crew, nothing would be as the are now in American. The events that took place gave brith to a continuing thriving Nation. That people were now on a new road towards thinking, writing, and speaking about.

"satire"- Instead of saying I love Literature, I'm going to tell you how much a hate it. The sun is good, warm, beautiful, and gives us life; (instead) The sun is bad, ugly, too hot, and drains the life out of us. Like the news, movies, and tv shows they always tell a portion of what's the truth. "Almost...well" everthing that broadcast something does this, they "satire"- ridicule, banter (teasing), gossip, and make a mockly of what's the truth.

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift (1729) talks about the children of poor people in Ireland, from being aburden to their parents, country, and for making them beneficial to the public. Unless I was the knig I can't find myself living in Ireland in these times, but I see a similar relationship with today time . In Swift article, it's hard living under the king trying to make a good living. In order to do that you must work, so having babies growing up doing the work for you was a big plus, but it takes food, time, and loving care to do this. Same for today, you must work or do something to support a family let alone youself. Which in most cases if you just do nothing, you like 2pac said "I'm hungry so I'm loking for a purse to snatch," your either going to died or live. Jonathan's article uses satire in a way how the Irish just let their people suffer and go through bull that they don't even have to. This proposal, where he suggests that the Irish eat their own children, is one of his most drastic pieces. He devoted much of his writing to the struggle for Ireland against the English hegemony.

From The Diary of Samuel Pepys
It seems Sannuel Pepys live an exciting life and his diary is proof of it. On October 13, 1660 there was a public excution and a private explosion. When Sannuel got his chance to see the king beheaded at Whitehall; to see the first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the king at Charing Cross. Then the private explosion with Sannuel and his wife which lead to him breaking a basket that he bought her. Sannuel life seems to be full of action but non less than an normal life. He had good days and bad nights but non as bad as the first day of the great fire of London. It seems that day he really didn't care about the fire but at the same time it was just one of those days. The fact that he lost his home didn't even phase him, but as for everyone in the town they where going nuts. People can learn a lot from Sannuel, not just the events he witness but his true characther at heart and soul. Sannuel to me is a guy who lives his life to the fullest each day and don't matter how may things may turn out in the end they would be ok. That's the way people today should look at things, your always going to have good and bads days but how you take them about is up to you!

What I think was most important to people living in this time was living in leisure, comfort, elegance, and like an gentleman. "Pepys was not a writer but an official in the goverment office that maintained the Royal Navy and provided it with ships and supplies. The head of the iffice was Pepys's cousin Edward Montague, a great frien and supporter of King Clarkes II." "Pepys had an insatiable appetite for experience, a vast capacity for pleasure, and an immense deise for learning-languages, literature, science, and everything connected with naval occupation." "He liked expensive cloths and oil paintings, in everything he sought pleasure he usually found it." "His house was full of creatures: cats, two dogs, a whistling blackbird, canaries, even for a time an eagle." "He owned many books, carpenters' tools, maps and charts, a telescope, and several musical instruments which he could play." "Whenever his head ached from business or his wife was angry at him for flirting wiht another women, he took refuge in the theater." "Now if that don't sound like a guy living it up big then I don't know what is."

The Renaissance

The Renaissance
To me this sounds like the period when everyone is starting to come to their sinces. The new theories about life, philosophy, religion, and art were strengthened by a group known as the Humanists, they are the one's to me that sounds like they were the first to gang some since. The Reformation is another example that people were starting to think for they selves, and another major contention was the tremendous corruption within the Church's hierarchy, all the way up to the Bishop of Rome, who appointed individuals to various positions within the Church (bishop, cardinal, etc.) on the basis of financial contributions.Thanks to the printing press this also help lowered the cost of books and other printed items and they no longer relied on the Pope to translate the messages in the Bible for them. As for King Henry the eight, well how cool is to be king and not only that to have six wives. Things seems to be good in his shoes till one of his own wife out lives him, but other than that the future were in the people hands now.

The Renaissance--The Sonnets
The difference between Shakespeare poet and Spencer poet is the rhyme scheme. While both Shakespeare and Spencer uses the same first rhyme scheme the rest is different; Shakespeare uses a ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme, and Spencer uses ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. I like Shakespeare way saying things in his poem, I like Spencer poem too but Shakespeare poem just has more heart in it to me. He literally made this poem eternal throught out the ages of men.

Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
First Section: ask a question should he compare me to a summer's day, but then he shouldn't because I am more temperate and lovely than the rough winds about in the summer of May.
Second Section: sometimes too hot the summer sun shines but not always it does, as well for everything and everyone's beauty it fades alway.
Third Section: that my eternal summer and beauty shall not fade, nor should death brag and take me in his shade with this poem.
Conclusion: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this poem, and gives life to thee.

Sonnet 30
Edmund Spencer
First Section: He is referring his love to a girl as fire to ice. Why is that the more his fire burns the colder her ice gets.
Second Section: Here he is wandering why can feel his love burning him up in a boiling sweat and feel his flames augmented manifold; Is not delayed by her heart frozen ice cold.
Third Section:
Conclusion:That the power of love can change the course of nature.

William Shakespeare Sonnet 1

FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

First Section; As beautiful people grow old and die, they are pass on through their child
Second Section; Selfish people do not last long
Third Section; Don't take things of this earth for granted
Conclusion; All things of earth will evently die


Edmund Spencer
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand"

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize!
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name;

Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

First Section; Spencer one day wrote his wife name down in the sands on a beach, but the tides washed it away
Second Section; Spencer's wife tells him things of a mortal world were not mint to last forever
Third Section; Spencer comes up with a way to do so with his poems,
Conclusion; their love would give them a new life even after death

My Sonnet
Antonio Hitchcock, it is my name
With an essence in my body and soul
An gigantic question is in my brain
Entitices are convincing me to go
To grow, love, and prosper is my motto
Voices are telling me to be about
I would live like there is no tomorrow
Hisitation is in my body like grouch
For no mistake or reason I am here
To of creation or abolition I appear
Analyis of life is only to fear
Who inspire or discourage become peers
Interrogation is only to thy self
As destined for one to wear thy owns belt

Section1.) I question life
Section2.) To grow, love, and prosper
Section3.) Tohate, destroy, decline
Section4) Turn; To do nothing
Conclusion) No question just live your life

The Middle Ages

The Crusades: A time (1095-1270) when Eurpean Christians battle against Muslims over religion and land. Since Jerusalem was the brith place of all religion the land was consider Holy. So Christians and other religious nations thought it was their duty to gain control of this land and call it their own. The Christians failed to conquer Jerusalem but they learn mathematics, astronmy, architecture, and crafts that made possible rich.

The Murder of Thomas a Becket: The Chaucer's pilgrims set out for Canterbury, their gaol was the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket. Thomas, a Noman, had risen to great power as chancellor under his friend King Henry th second. Appointing his friend Thomas as arch-bishop of canterbury, Henry hoped to gain the upper hand in disputes with the Church, but the independent and combative Thomas took the pop's side. In December 1170, four of Henry's knights murdered Becket in his cathedral. The public outrage backlash against Henry for monarchy in its power srtuggles with Rome. This setback led to the kinds of liberies taken by several of clergymen in The Canterbury Tales. Thus, Chaucer's monk lives a life of luxury withouot regard to the poor, his Friar Chases women and money, and his Summoner and his Pardoner blackmail people with threats of eternal damnation.
The medieval Church did have one postive effect, it fostered cultureal unity a system of belief and symbol that transcended the natioal cultures of Europe. Its monasteries were the libraries and publishers of the time, and its language, Latin, remained the international language of educated Europeans. Its leader, the pope, was king of all kings and his "kingdom" had no boundaries.

The Magna Carta: The event that most clearly heraldeda return to older, independent, democratic tendecies in England was the signing of the Magna Carta by King John in 1215, at Runnymede. John was strongly backed by the Pope, but the English barons forced him to sign the document. The signing then , was a defeat for central papal power. It is true that the Magna Carta was witten by aristocrats for aristocrats; the barons had no interest in the rights of the common people. Years later, the document became the basis for English constitutuional law in which such rights as trial by jury and legislative taxation were established.

The black Death: The Black Death or bubonic plague was another blow to feudalism besides the growth of cities and the Hundred Years' War, that strunk England in 1348-1349. The highly contagious disease spread by fleas from inected rats, reducing the nation's population by a third. Causing a labor shortage and inevitably gave the lower classes more leverage than they had ever had agisnt their overlords. The freedrom of the serfs was one long term result which knocked out the last support of feudalism. The warring House of York and Lancaster reconciled by the time the marriage of King Henry 7 in 1485. Henry was the frist of Tudor line that would lead to Elizabeth 1. The Middle Ages had ended, England's Renaissance was about to begin.

The Canterbury Tales: I remember reading The Canterbury Tales and I forgot how long this story was. This story kind of remines me of the Mayflower, how these people who all come from different places with different talaents but all looking for the same thing. Like the Mayflower, the people are on a voyage looking for a new life and place to call their own. The Canterbury Tales talks about everyone that is on this voyage. From the way they dress to their way of living.

Frist there was an kinght who rode with turth and honor. He possed fine horses, but was not gaily dressed. He wore a fustian tunic stained and dark with smudges where his armor had left mark. He had been to many of places and done many of things. Now he was on this ride towards something new with his son the Squire.

The Suire, with locks as cuurly as if they had been pressed.He was twenty years of age with wonderful agility and strengh. Short was his gown, the sleeves were long and wide. He knew how to sit and ride a horse. He could make songs and poems and write. Courteous he was, lowly and serviceaqble, and carved to serve his father at the table.

There was a Yeoman with him at his side, he wore a coat and hood of green, and peacock-feathered arrows bright and keen under his belt he bore very carefully.
Of woodcraft he knew all the useful ways. Upon his arm he bore a bright bracer, and at one side a sword and a buckler, and at the other side a dagger bright. A cropped head had he and a sun-browned face.

There was also a nun, a PRIORESS, her greatest oath was but "By Saint Eloy!"
And she was called Madam Eglantine. Very well she sang the service divine, she spoke French fairly and fluently, and certainly delighting in good sport. She had good manners and care for all animals She wore a small coral trinket on her arm, with a string of beads and gauded all with green.
Another NUN with her had she, who was her chaplain; and priests, she had three.

A MONK there was, one of the finest sort, an outrider; hunting was his sport. Here this monk was governour of the cell. The rule of Maurus or Saint Benedict, by reason it was somewhat old and strict, his sleeves were made with fur at the hand with fine grey fur. With red eyes, a bald head, and smooth as one anointed was his face. He also had many excellent horses and greyhounds, as fast as a bird in flight.

A FRIAR there was named Hubert, a very festive man. In all the Four Orders is no one that can equal his gossip and well-spoken speech. He was an easy man in penance-giving, he knew how to gain a fair living. His tippet was always stuffed with pocket-knives and pins, to give to young and pleasing wives. In towns he knew the taverns, every one, and every good host and each barmaid too-Better than needy lepers and beggars, these he knew. He knew his way with the women and could help resolve disputes that were brought up.

There was a MERCHANT with forked beard in motley gown, and high on horse he sat, upon his head a Flemish beaver hat. His boots were fastened neatly and elegantly. He spoke out his opinions very solemnly. He knew how to deal foreign currencies, buy and sell. This worthy man kept all his wits well set; There was no person that knew he was in debt, so well he managed all his trade affairs with bargains and with borrowings and with shares.

A CLERK from Oxford was there also, who'd studied philosophy, and he and his horse was poor is a rake. He took utmost care and heed for his study. Not one word spoke he more than was necessary; and that was said with due formality and dignity and short and lively, and full of high morality.

A SERGEANT OF THE LAW, keen and wise, disinterested he was, and of great dignity. Because of his knowledge and high reputation, he took large fees, had robes more than one. He knew all convictions, common and crime recorded since King William's time. He could write a contract so explicit Not any man could trace a fault in it; and every law he knew entirely by rote. He rode but simply in a medley coat, girded with a belt of silk, with little bars, but of his outfit no more particulars.

There was a FRANKLIN in his company; white was his beard as is the white daisy. His house was never short of food and pies of fish and flesh, and these in large supplies. A dagger and a purse all of silk hung at his belt, white as morning milk. He had been sheriff and been tax auditor; there was nowhere such a worthy vavasor.

A HABERDASHER and a CARPENTER, an ARRAS-MAKER, DYER, and WEAVER. Freshly and new their gear, and well adorned it was; Their weapons were not cheaply shaped with brass,
But all with silver; neatly made and well their belt and their purses too. Each man of them appeared a proper citizen.

A COOK they had with them, he knew how to recognize a draught of London ale. And he could roast and boil and broil and fry, and prepare a stew, and bake a tasty pie.

There was a SAILOR, living far out west; for all I know, he was of Dartmouth town. The hot summer had burned his face all brown. He sadly rode a carthorse, in a gown, of thick woolen cloth that reached unto the knee.He knew well all from Gottland to the Cape of Finisterre,
and every creek in Brittany and Spain; his vessel had been called the Madeleine.

With us there was a DOCTOR OF MEDICINE; To speak of medicine and surgery,
for he was instructed in astronomy. He cared for and saved a patient many times
by natural science and studying astrological signs. Well could he calculate the planetary position,to improve the state his patient is in. He knew the cause of every sickness,
whether it brings heat or cold, moisture or dryness, and where engendered he was a very good practitioner.

There was a WIFE of BATH, who was somewhat deaf. At making clothes she had a skillful hand. She bettered those of Ypres and of Ghent. Her head-dresses were of finest weave and ground.
Her stockings were of the finest scarlet red, tightly fastened, and her shoes were soft and new. Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue, and her feet spurred sharply under that. In company well could she laugh and chat.

A good man was there of religion, he was a poor COUNTRY PARSON, but rich he was in holy thought and work. He was a learned man also, a clerk. Who Christ's own gospel truly sought to preach, and devoutly his parishioners would he teach.

With him there was a PLOWMAN, his brother. That loaded many carts with dung, and many other had transported; a true worker was he. He loved God most, and that with his whole heart
at all times, whether it was easy or hard, and next, his neighbour, even as himself.

A REEVE and a MILLER were also there; A SUMMONER, MANCIPLE and PARDONER. The MILLER was a strong fellow, be it known. Hardy, big of brawn and big of bone. He was stoutly built, broad and heavy. His beard, as any sow or fox, was red. Upon his nose right on the top he had a wart, and thereon stood a tuft of hairs, red as the bristles in an old sow's ears, and his nostrils they were black and wide. His mouth was like a furnace door for size. He was a jester and knew some poetry, but mostly all of sin and obscenity. A blue hood he wore and a white coat, and a bagpipe he could blow well.

There was a MANCIPLE from the Inner Temple. That he knew the markets, watched them closely, and found himself ahead, he did quit nicely.

The REEVE was a slender choleric man, who shaved his beard as close as ever he can. His hair was closely cropped around his ears; His head, the top was cut alike a pulpiteer's. Long were his legs, and they were very lean. Well could he manage granary and bin.

A SUMMONER was with us in that place, who had a fiery-red, cherubic face, all pimpled it was; his eyes were narrow As hot he was, and lecherous, as a sparrow; with black and scabby brows and scanty beard He had a face that little children feared. Well loved he garlic, onions, and also leeks, And drink strong blood red wine untill dizzy. Then would he talk and shout as if he's crazy.

With him there rode a noble PARDONER Of Rouncival, his friend and his compeer.This pardoner had hair as yellow as wax, but smooth it hung as does a strike of flax; In driplets hung his locks behind his head, down to his shoulders which they overspread; but thin they dropped, these strings, all one by one. A voice he had that sounded like a goat.

The cat that I like in The Canterbury Tales is the Knight. He's a gentleman who frist began to ride about the world with truth, honour, and courtesy. He is very wise, strong, and brave with a temper as meekly as a maid. He been to many places and done many things, now he's on this voyage without a sinigle thing. I like this character because he did a lot with his life but chose to live a simple life. This cat is down to earth and doesn't need fancy things to live. He's a real and true soldier and that I can respect.

You can tell the literature I readed reflect the Middle Ages simply by their names. The Crusades, The Black Death, The Magna Carta, all these titles has meaning refering to the Middle Ages. The Crusades (1095-1270) meaning Holy War, was aserie of wars waged by European Christians against the Muslims. In 1215 English barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta (the "Great Charter") as an effort to curb the Church's power, which became basic for Engish constitutional law. The Black Death or bubonic plague, was a highly contagious disease which struck England in 1348-1349 reduced the nation's population by a thrid.
It's their names which tells me a time of the Dark Ages and Holy War. A time of war and death, birth and rebirth between people, land, and nations.


The Pardoner's Tale; Relates to a lot dealing with the Middle Ages. The main statement of this story is that greed is the root of all evil, and lies, cheats, and deceats will only bring you trouble. "Well," through-out the Middle Ages there was much lies, cheats, and deceats; and everyone is either seeking power or who alright has it living their own selfish lifes. Just as the Crusades or Holy War, European Christians fought Muslims for Jerusalem just over relgion. The Black Death, or bubonic plague, that struck England in 1348-1349 killed the nation's population by a third. In The Pardoner's Tale there were three young brothers that was looking for death. I guess it was do to the caroues and blasphemy oaths they were doing in the begining. They felt it was not fair for one out of three dies amongs the living and they wanted to kick deaths butt for it. Well on their way they met an old man and ask him did he know were death was, too what they didn't know was that he was death. So death indisguise told the young three that they would find death under a tree. Instead they found a pile of gold florins, from there it was murder she wrote. The older brother order the youngest to go get some bread and wine and so he was off, but little did he know the plot of the older two would slay him in his return. As for the yougest he had a plot of his own to slay the other two, so he brought some poison and put it in two bottle of wine with one clean for himself. So in his return he was murder by the other two and in their celebration they both share a poison bottle of wine and in so they both die.

Beowulf

Beowulf

I remember reading the story Beowulf before but it was a while back. I felled in love with this story the frist time I read it and reading it again just reminded why. Some of us as people are bless with certain gifts and talaents that makes us different and stand out from other peolple. In this story Beowulf is one of these people. Unlike other men Beowulf was bigger, stronger, and his courage was like no other person. Beowulf was unique, no one was like him or could compare themselfves to him and that is why I love the story of Beowulf.

When I think of the story Beowulf I think unique. Everyone is unique in their own way and people should respect them for who they are. Beowulf had friends that stuck with him til the very end and it is these people who are really friends you can call on. People are all unique, different, but never more better than anyone else. That's what make us so loveable as people, that we respect one another for who we are. So when I think of the story Beowulf, I think of every person for what they really are. . .unique.

What really stuck out to me in Beowulf was his courage. Beowulf was a man who wasn't afraid of anything or anyone. He didn't let anything get in his way nor stop him from reaching his goal. He was determine not to do his best but to be the best at whatever his help was needed. Beowulf had more courage than anyone else could imagine. He was strong and had a big heart that wouldn't let him down. Even though he was a man his courage made him a god ammos man and it is that I saw that stuck out to me.

The Anglo-Saxon's culture were like warriors and the bards, they had the brains and the strength. A person who fits this culture perfectuly as you can guess is Beowulf. Beowulf was strong but not only that he was smart as well. To find more evidence to what Anglo-Saxon's believed I found in the text; Hrothgar, guard of the Danes, spoke: "Holy God, out of kindness, has sent this man to us to save us from Grendel's terror." Then when Beowulf spoke, "and wise God, that king, shallchoose who shall win glory." Also in the text it says "It is well known that God always rules the race of men." All these are direct evidence of Anglo-Saxon's believes in Gods, such as Odin ans Thor.

To compare this story to some hero stories from our culture I chose Superman. I chose Superman because he and Beowulf share similar power. Both of them was born with their special gift and use it for the good of mankind. Superman and Beowulf both depend on their strengh to get them through hard times, but Superman have a littile more extra power than Beowulf but both of them have share strong courage. Like when Beowulf told the king and others that he would beat Grendel with his bear hands and did. Then it never fell him to do it again with Grendel mother or any of the other stories that Beowulf depended on his strengh. Beowulf and Superman may share strengh and courage but but Superman it's call super for nothing. Superman have a lot of power that he uses, Beowulf don't. Superman has x-ray vision, skin of steel, and eyes that can burn a hole through the moon. Superman can blow a house into pieces and can freeze a person into a block of ice with his breath. Then he can fly into outer space and anywhere he wants in a flash.

In the end of the story Beowulf, Beowulf dies but is given an honorable death. All good things must come to an end but Beowulf die because the very friends that was there to help him were cowards. This makes me mad in way because sometimes good people die because others don't have the courage to make an stand. Beowulf did had one friend to aid his side and it is that friend that gave Beowulf a honorable death. It is these friends that hero's names carry on through the agies. It is these who put the respect in names for our hero's. It's a shame Beowulf didn't have much friends like Wiglaf who came to his aid. I say Wiglaf is a hero his self, he did what no one else would do and that was to save Beowulf. The people should have made Wiglaf king for his heroic act and they should serve him til the day they die!

Antonio Hitchcock
Modernism
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by; James Thumber
The reason why I chose this story because I wanted to see what was the secret Walter holds. As a modern person everyone holds secrets, some not fancy and others to die for. Some if I were to find anything that would have to do with modernism, it couldn’t be any easier to read "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."

In the story Walter Mitty is daydreaming he’s back in war while driving his wife to the hair store. Not only there but after he drops her off, he’s daydreaming again on his way to park the car, then going to pick up shoes and dog biscuit. He’s daydreaming even after picking up his wife and outside the drugstore she went to. Throughout the whole event he was daydreaming, but who doesn’t everyone daydreams a little if a lot everyday of their lives.

Like Mrs. Walter people are daydreaming all the time and it’s often things that people say, do, or see that makes this happen. In the beginning of this story Walter is daydreaming he’s on a ship:
Not so fast! You're driving too fast!" said Mrs. Mitty. "What are you driving so fast for?" "Hmm?" said Walter Mitty; this was when Walter was daydreaming the first time driving with his wife.
Every man uses daydreams to get away from the world or just his wife that’s in the world. It’s a nature thing people do, even when you try not to it’s like your mind even got a mind of it’s own. As for women, they use it for whatever means necessary. But anyway Mrs. Walter is daydreaming again after he drops off his wife, he drives by a hospital and that’s when things start to kick in:
"Back it up, Mac! Look out for that Buick!" Walter Mitty jammed on the brakes. "Wrong lane, Mac," said the parking-lot attendant, looking at Mitty closely. "Gee. Yeh," muttered Mitty; if you don’t pay intention daydreams can cause you to loss focus just as Walter did.
All that this proves is that Mrs. Walter is a modern person. People do not chose to daydream it just happen when things are on their mind. So if being a daydreamer is define as modernism, then Mrs. Walter is a modern person.

Antonio Hitchcock
Realism

"A story of an Hour"
"She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome."

Here in this part Kate feels remorse for the lost of her love but embraces her life ahead. This is a good expression of what a realist would feel in times of death of a love one. What she saying that it’s hard for her to look or think about her husband on his dying bed but is willing to live her life to the fullest and let this as a stepping stone for her, lost in the past but not forgotten. She is able to let things go even when they mean so much to her or even in death she will overcome the matter and move on.

She was sad that her husband died but gald that he was out of her life. This remines me how cruel women are, "oh sure they'll cry at you funeral, but party and luagh soon as night come". Women are cruel creatures in this world, instead of leaving you they'll put up with you til the bitter end, then cash your check in the moring. Louise was indeed sad, but with sadness comes greater happness.

A social issue that Chopin wants to solve she already did when she made herself stronger to move on in life. The issue that why can’t women live on a happy life even when they lose something as lovable and important as their husband. There are times in people lives where we would have to make a decision where a situation will make us or break us. Your ether going to become stronger than you were before or become a stone on the floor.

"The Battle with Mr. Covey"
Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half way out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment- - from whence came the spirit I don't know- - I resolved to fight; and suiting my action to the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat; and as I did so, I rose.
Frederick Douglass shows in his story that he was a realist in his time. That doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from every human being has an animal side that fights for our survival. Humans aren’t born slaves or mint to be slaves so there shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone when they fight back. It’s like when you take any animal out of its nature home to become your house pet, it’s not going to go easy or at that at all.

A social issue that Frederick Douglass wants to solve would be why is he there in the first place? Why is he a slave and why is he treated so? But the question is not why are things so but how did it come to this? Things happen in our lives that just can’t be explain for what purpose or cause. It’s just that we many looks upon the situation for us to take control of, meaning things shouldn’t happen where human beings are able to work on. People can’t help it because it rains but people can help when there’s a nation to be fed. As humans we are able only to do so much so when mistakes happen we are able to learn from them.

Lit. Antonio Hitchcock
Dark Romanticism Nov.7,’06

Nathaniel Hawthorne: would be against the transcendental philosophy because his great grandfather was one of the judges in the Salem witchcraft trials during Puritan times. During these trials, nineteen people and two dogs were hanged, and one man was crushed to death by stones all in the name of God.

Herman Melville: would be against the transcendental philosophy because when he was twelve he witnessed cannibals eating human flesh from a ship he was working on.

Edgar Allen Poe: would be against the transcendental philosophy because his mother died when he was very young, his stepfather disowned him when he went to college, and all three of his wives died from tuberculosis. Then he got addictions to opium and alcohol so coming up from that he knew not everyone was good nor himself.

Me myself I would have to be in with dark romanticism. Why because I myself know that everyone has maybe a little good in them but no one is absolutely good. Jesus was good man himself is not; even if man was to try he still couldn’t be absolutely good. I know I sin every day, so does everyone else so who is to say whose good and who’s not? I’ll say the ones who learn from their sins and try to do better are good, so people everywhere are trying but whosoever should achieve it should be doing good. The hard thing is being a man in a world such as this it’s hard to be good.

The Black Cat
"This story is bad enough to be an book!" I really like this story from the beginning to the end. I knew the ending was going to have something to do with that cat I just didn’t what. I knew that it was going to be the cat that would lead to his down fall but as I read the ending I would have never aspect it to be way it was.

The article "the Black Cat" is a story that tells about a man who is in love with his new pet cat. As stress and old age grows upon him making him more hostile with everything around him, he burst in rage against the pet cat he loves the most. After dealing with remorse of his sinful act another cat comes in his life that looks exactly like his old dear pet, but this time the cat like his wife as the new master. Having old wounds reopen again he enrages at his wife’s pet, but before he can once again achieve satiation his wife put a stop to it. Unhappy with this act and even more enrage than before he gives her a taste.

The characther is dark and evil in this story. He murders the black cat "One morning, in cold blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree;- hung it with tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart;- hung it because I knew it had lopved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence." like he does this all the time. You can't have a bit of good in to do something like this in cold blood. Anyone that knows when he or she is doing something wrong and does it anyway is bad or in this case evil. Anyone who doesn't know when they are doing somthing wrong is just crazy.


The Raven
The Raven is a story of constant change, changing moods of the character and the reader as I go. I love stories with constant change such as this because it gives the story life. This story "The Raven" is about a man at home who was reading a book and falls asleep, dreaming that someone was tapping at his door only to find it a raven. The raven speaks and his only words are "never more."

The man finds this scene amazing in joy of a bird that speaks and thinks of the master that maybe it once had before. "Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster" being by the bird had an unhappy master, this is an example of an anti-transcendental idea. "Prophet said I, thing of evil-prophet still if bird or devil!" Here he refers to the raven as a devil and that’s something a transcendentalist would never do. "And his eyes have all seeming at demon that is dreaming." The man is saying that he is looking into the eyes of a demon and that is also something a transcendentalist would never do.

Edgar Allen Poe's life
In Allen early life his father abandoned their family in 1810. His mother died a year later from "consumption" (tuberculosis). He became estranged from his foster father over gambling debts he acquired while trying to get more spending money, and traveled to Boston under the assumed name of Henri LeRennet, arriving there in April 1827. Then he secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. She was 13 at the time. Every time something bad happens in his life he writes a poem like when his cousin Virginia broke a blood vessel while singing and playing the piano. Blood began to rush forth from her mouth. It was the first sign of consumption. He wrote the "The Raven" after this scene with his cousin illness. He then wrote more poems such as "Al Aaraaf", "Alone" "Annabel Lee" and more such as "The Bells" "Bridal Ballad". Most of his works came from a bad event in a point of time of his life.