...Martin Luther King Jr wrote a powerful letter from Birmingham regarding the great injustices present in society, which the black community faced every day. Although present in other communities it was worse for those who resided in Birmingham (King, 1963). Mr. King was asked to Birmingham in case there was a need to engage in a nonviolent direct action due to the injustices in Birmingham. These injustices included racism, inequality with blacks as they were unable to vote making it not really a democracy, the outrageous brutality taking place in Birmingham like the bombings and the burning of black homes and churches. King used his religious beliefs to support his actions in helping his black brother and sisters trying to right the injustices. He quoted St. Thomas Aquinas saying “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law”, he states that by helping out he is doing the right and just thing by his religion and the moral thing unlike what was happening in Birmingham. He goes on to say that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere because whatever affects one directly effects all indirectly which is how Birmingham was tied to all of the other communities in the south (King, 1963). King uses the four steps to nonviolent campaigns which were thee collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action. King uses these steps in regards to his Christian ethics by stressing...
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...The Phenomenon of “ Father Absence” Reflections on Zweig’s Letter from an Unknown Woman. Abstract The father-absence is a widespread phenomenon in the society nowadays. However, it is recently that people notice the psychological importance of father as a significant influence on female character development. Empirical research has demonstrated various negative outcomes for females in single-parent homes such as being overshy, self-abandoned as well as indifferent to the sorrounding, all of which influence their life-choice. This paper deals with this problem mainly from how psychologically father-absence affects the development of the female character which strongly decides their fate based on Stephan Zweig’s novel: Letter from an Unknown Woman. Key words: father-absence， the Name-of-the-Father 1. Introduction Letter from an Unknown Woman is one of the most famous novels composed by Austrian writer Stephan Zweig. Its cyclically-told tale of romantic yearning and pining for love is embodied in the doomed, delusional relationship of the two romantic leads: a young neighbor girl's steadfast, sacrificial love for a self-absorbed, dilettante writer. Zweig uses the form of the woman’s monologue as a letter to show us a tragic story of her whole life: how she falls in love with her neighbor, keeps faith for him through her whole life while the man has never recognized or remembered her. Many critics believe that the root-cause of this love-tragedy lies in...
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...distant conversations with his father using formal language like he is talking to a guest, ‘I’ll get the maid to make up a bed if you’re stopping’ presents the awkwardness and exemplifies the struggle men had to face when they came back home, showing that it wasn’t as easy as expected. Furthermore the use of ‘if’ makes Weir’s father sound even distant like it is a burden for him to stop and that it is an inconvenience for him to be back home. This makes the reader feel incredibly uncomfortable as we have read the men in action and have connected with separate characters in an emotional way. So to see the men being treated unjustly for what they are doing makes the reader feel just as uncomfortable as the conversations between Weir and his father. However this is not an unusual thing, as many of the soldiers were neither celebrated nor got the recognition they deserved from fighting at war. The awkwardness is furthermore highlighted when Weir himself ‘could think of nothing to say’ to his father. The lack of colloquialism used between these two characters, connotes the experience and horrors men faced at war and how they have been sculpted into his mind. Whereas his father is very dismissive and oblivious to what his son is doing. This is further emphasised by the argument that unfold between father and son. ‘No it’s been worse’. ‘Worse than what? Worse than it says?’ ‘No it not that. Its....I don’t know’. The callous accusation’s from his father establishes the compassion that...
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...was a norm at that time, so the question arisen is how the Founding Fathers - leaders of America thought and took action about slavery. According to the Declaration, slavery is unacceptable. Among the Founding Fathers, George Washington...
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...parallel plots of King Lear reinforce the play's major themes of filial ingratitude, blindness, and betrayal. King Lear and Gloucester both have loyal and disloyal children. Lear decides to retire from the throne and is dividing his kingdom up to his three daughters. Two of Lear’s daughters, Regan and Goneril lie about their love for him and only desire the heir, however, his other daughter, Cordelia, speaks the truth and is not interested in the heir. Sir, I [Goneril] do love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor, As much as child e'er loved or father found— A love that makes breath poor and speech unable. Beyond all manner of so much I love you. (Shakespeare Act I Scene I 56) Goneril and Regan claim to love their father more than they can express, and more than a child has ever loved ones father. The lie reveals to the audience that they did so to receive a portion of the kingdom. Gloucester has two sons, Edmund who is a bastard and Edgar who is legitimate. Gloucester treats Edgar better than Edmund and positions him inline to receive the throne since he is not a bastard. Edmund gives Gloucester a forged letter supposedly from Edgar, outlining...
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...better environment for Eliza’s ailing mother, her father, a lieutenant coronel in the British military, moved the family to South Carolina in 1738. Rather than live in the city of Charleston her father chose to purchase a few plantations in a rural country area approximately 17 miles away. Eliza’s father was called back to his post and left Eliza to run the three plantations. With an interest in Botany from finishing school Eliza created a new strain of the indigo plant from the West Indies. This allowed for a staple crop export to England so they would not be reliant on getting their indigo from France. At 21 Eliza married Charles Pinckney a widowed lawyer in his forties and they had four children together. Two of her children Charles and Thomas were generals in the American Revolution. During her years in South Carolina, Eliza was a prolific letter writer to her father, family and friends. A collection of her letters from 1739-1762 are published in The Letterbook of...
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...In the scarlet letter, Pearl is the scarlet letter in flesh and blood. Pearl is the being that makes Hester’s sin known. In the beginning of the novel, Hawthorne foreshadows Pearl’s symbolism of the scarlet letter when “but that first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was--shall we say it?--the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom” (Hawthorne ). Pearls fascination and fixation with the scarlet letter is repeated numerous other times in the novel, including when pearl makes her own scarlet letter out of seaweed (Hawthorne 174) and when she points out the scarlet letter on a suit of armour in the Governor's mansion (Hawthorne ). Pearl's name itself was given to her by Hester as a reminder of her sin: “But she named the infant ‘Pearl’ as...
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...Parents always care about their children and spend most of their time teaching them lifelong lessons through their personal experience, stories, or failures. This is also true for Lord Chesterfield. In the eighteenth century, he writes this letter to his son who was traveling far from home. This letter is trying to let his son realize the importance of his pieces of advice and make sure that his son will follow them. In order to achieve this purpose, Chesterfield uses rhetorical strategies such as parallel structure and strong words to establish himself as an advisor and a father. These two identities force his son to obey him. Lord Chesterfield begins his letter with a parallel structure: “I know…” This sentence reveals a fact that Chesterfield knows his son very well. He can see his son’s reaction to all of his suggestions, which is indifferent. By making this statement at the beginning of the letter, Chesterfield...
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...The Character of Pearl Pearl is a major character in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Even though she is a young child through most of the book, she plays a very important role. Pearl asks many different questions throughout the text that make the adult characters even question themselves. She is more perceptive and more honest than anyone in the rest of the book. Without Pearl, “The Scarlet Letter” would not be as successful as it is. Pearl is supposed to be an average child, but she is also there to help us realize things we might not have seen on our own, and to symbolize sin and guilt. When we first meet Pearl, most of us realized that there was definitely something special about this little girl. She has a special insight into things in the book that I would have never noticed without Pearl. Hawthorne uses Pearl in a special way to reveal that Dimmesdale has something to do with the scarlet letter. Pearl is not used to being around a lot of people, so when she accepted Dimmesdale so openly it helped the readers realize who he truly was. It says “Pearl, that wild and unpredictable little elf, crept over to him. She took his hand in both of hers and laid her cheek against it.” (92) This is a kindness that most little girls would only share with a family member, such as their father. There is also other information that Pearl gives to reveal to us that she knows who her father truly is. When Hester and Pearl come across Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale on the...
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...not believe in the same God that her father and community believe in. She doesn’t tell her father and in result has nightmare and is forced to lie to her father to keep them happy. When Keith returns after running away her father beats him bloody because Keith did not want to tell him where he went. Butler portrays the father as a loving father however he has no problem hurting one of his kids in order to protect them. The father wants to keep Keith safe but Keith ends up leaving, angry at his father. Although her parents wanted to keep...
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...Jacob Bussey Professor Caskey American Literature 8 February 2016 The Real Side of Letters The Scarlet Letter was set in the 17th- century puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years of 1642 to 1649. The people thought the church of England was to complex and wanted simpler truths and better structured forms of worship. They want to “purify” the church of England, they got the name of Puritans from that. The Scarlet letter starts off to let everyone know "all the characters are saved, and by this measure the novel is a comedy” ( Samuel Coale). The reason he is saying that is because through out the story they are not acting Christian like one bit. Dimmesale is the biggest hypocrite of them all, he will preach from the bible but does not live by it. Dimmesdale becomes the biggest sinner of them all when he declared himself from the scaffold after he finished his election sermon. “Dimmesdale is irreparably...
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...It is so hard to hear him suffering and I was starting to get very scared for him. My husband and I have been continually praying for Michael and that he stays safe, but we haven't heard from him in a while. So, I was starting to get very anxious. I remember walking out towards our mailbox one day and seeing something sticking out. I letter a little more formal than usual. My heart sunk, and I started sobbing before I even opened the letter. As I walked inside I handed the letter to Michael. Not being able to come to words he read the disturbing letter. Dear Mr and Mrs Bergin. I am sorry to inform you that Michael Bergin has passed away. He was very sick already, but he died when a heavy shell exploded near the aid post where he was currently standing. This event happened at the 3rd Australian field ambulance, Belgium. I am also a chaplain who was friends with Michael. When he died, so did so many people's hearts. He was such a lovely person to be around and a great friend. He was always very committed and brave. He has been awarded the military cross posthumously. Michael is someone that we will never forget...
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...treated as slaves. Celie, being the main character of the book, endures every form of abuse from individuals in her life that should have been showing her love. Everyone abused her except her sister Nettie, whom she found herself trying to protect from their father. Celie’s mother abused and cursed her, even while being on her sick bed because her husband, Celie and Nettie’s father, desired to have sex with Celie more than he did with his wife (Celie’s mother). Marriage is a union between a man and a woman although in today’s society in some states it could be man and man or woman and woman. However, within the traditional marriage, the man is said to be the head of the household, especially within the Christian faith. Marriage consists of God, the husband, and then the wife which is how it was intended to be. In this context, historically, the men within a marriage ruled or oppressed the wife. The wife had to do whatever her husband demanded of her. Alice Walker’s The Color Purple explains the marital oppression of women, which included an older widowed man who is given a younger unattractive wife by her step-father after asking for the more attractive daughter for marriage. Chanequa Walker Barnes of Duke University Library states, “The Color Purple is a story about pain and, ultimately, triumph.” Being that Celie is the unattractive child, she endures violence, rape, and the lack of love from those who should have protected her. Dealing with such for so long causes her to struggle...
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...Edmund’s true nature has been revealed to the audience through his soliloquy, we as an audience become aware that his polite terms of address “your lordship” is used solely to manipulate Gloucester and gain his trust. “I hope for my brother’s justification, he wrote this but as an essay of my virtue”. This phrase is used by Edmund to manipulate his father into thinking that his own intentions are pure. He also wishes to manipulate his father into thinking that he has faith in his brother Edgar and that he believes he is innocent, creating a false sense of security within the scene. Edmund appears to have respect for his father in the scene with his polite term of address and his polite apology: “I beseech you, Sir, pardon me”. This is however a false respect, as Edmund’s whole act of loyalty to his brother is a lie. He is using his manipulation of Gloucester to trick him into believing that his respect for him is true. The phrase “I find it not fit for your o’erlooking” gives the impression to the audience that Edmund is intentionally hiding something from Gloucester, in order to make it appear as though he is protecting his brother from some kind of...
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...Abigail Adams writes a persuasive letter to her son John Quincy Adams to explain her reasoning for sending him to France with his father diplomatic father John Adams. In her letter, she reminds J.Q. Adams of his intelligence, opportunities, and his natural gifts. In her writing it is clear that she has a strong maternal instinct and feels a responsibility to prepare her son. Abigail is attempting to protect and educate her beloved son in her letter by using a variety of rhetorical devices including persuasion, comparison/contrast, and figures of speech. Originally John Q. Adams was not intrigued by the idea of voyaging to France for a second time. But A. Adams was able to convince her son to embark on this particular journey with his Father. In her letter she is listing all the aids J.Q. Adams has by accompanying his father on the trip. She feels he will gain experience and become more educated by traveling and being around a different culture. She is attempting to make him...
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