David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...
His play makes clea the facts from the past that sinners and guilty people were mistaken for witches in Salem (Bu*censored* 128 -129). ... If a person sinned they had to confess it, regret it, a perform some act of penance. To avoid being hanged many people in The Crucible confessed to sins they did not commit. ... Adultery was one of the worst sins someone could commit. ... It was an atrocious sin for children to even dance, so to avoid punishment they would pretend to be under the spell of the Dev . ...
Waiting for Godot qualifies as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous works. Originally written in French in 1948, Beckett personally translated the play into English. The world premiere was held on January 5, 1953, in the Left Bank Theatre of Babylon in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly throu...
In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was founded on the ideals of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much l...
