English final exam- authors/themes

Walt Whitman

"I Hear America Singing" and the war poems read in class, American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.

Doppelganger

"Twin" in German, A double of a living person -ex: doppelganger in "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Edward Taylor

(1642-1729) Puritan minister considered to be the most gifted and complex writer before Emerson and Whitman, *wrote Huswifery*

Jonathan Edwards

(1703-1758) Preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. He played a critical role in shaping the Great Awakening and his sermon "In the Hands of an Angry God" is considered a classic piece of early American Literature.

Olaudah Equiano

(1745-1797) African who was sold into slavery and bought his way out -kidnapped as a boy (age 11) from his home he was sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times -he served in the Seven Years' War as a captain's boy and was then sold to a slave trader where he went to the Caribbean -from there a white colonist bought him and he eventually bought his way out of slavery -he went to England to live and published a book about slavery and his experiences -his message was widespread and helped to inspire the abolition of slavery.

The Crucible

(Arthur Miller, 1953). Miller chose the 1692 Salem witch trials as his setting, but the work is really an allegorical protest against the McCarthy anti-Communist "witch-hunts" of the early 1950s. In the story, Elizabeth Proctor fires servant Abigail Williams after she finds out Abigail had an affair with her husband. In response, Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft. She stands trial and is acquitted, but then another girl accuses her husband, John, and as he refuses to turn in others, he is killed, along with the old comic figure, Giles Corey. Also notable: Judge Hathorne is a direct ancestor of the author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Be able to discuss different aspects of a poem. (random terms i think we should know??)

*Diction* refers to a poem's entire word choice, the overall effect, like the ingredients selected for a recipe, creating the tone or mood of the poem. *Alliteration:* Repetition of initial consonant sounds of words, typically in the same line ("summer season")

Mark Twain

*Huckleberry Finn* He was America's most popular author, but also renowned platform lecturer. He lived from 1835 to 1910. Used "romantic" type literature with comedy to entertain his audiences. In 1873 along with the help of Charles Dudley Warner he wrote The Gilded Age. This is why the time period is called the "Gilded Age". The greatest contribution he made to American literature was the way he captured the frontier realism and humor through the dialect his characters use.

Hidden Sin is Deadly

-Dimmesdale dying due to keeping his guilt inside -Could push to say Chillingworth died due to sin. He kept trying to ruin Dimmesdale's life and get revenge on him and he became so consumed with this, when Dimmesdale died Chillingworth had nothing to live for.

Puritanism

-believed they had to enforce God's rules and will at any cost -everything that happened was a result of God's attitude towards humans -Bradstreet, Bradford, and Taylor are examples

Romanticism

19th-century western European artistic and literary movement; held that emotion and impression, not reason, were the keys to the mysteries of human experience and nature; sought to portray passions, not calm reflection. -plots are arranged around crisis moments -Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau are examples

Realism

A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be -terms of struggle -evolution affected how writers looked at their characters -nothing more or less than the treatment of materials

Satire

A literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. Historically perceived as tending toward didacticism it is usually intended as a moral criticism directed against the injustice of social wrongs.

The Scarlet Letter

A novel about Hester Prynne, a woman in seventeenth century New England who is convicted of adultery. At the beginning of the story, she is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her dress as a sign of her guilt. Hester will not reveal the identity of her partner in adultery. Her husband (Chillingworth) comes to realize who her lover (Rev. Dimmesdale) is and takes revenge on him. Eventually, her dying lover publicly admits his part in the adultery.

William Bradford

A pilgrim that lived in a north colony called Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was chosen governor 30 times. He also conducted experiments of living in the wilderness and wrote about them; well known for "Of Plymouth Plantation."

Gothic Writing

A sub-genre of romanticism is gothic literature, settings in bleak or remote places, a plot involving violence, characters that are in psychological or phsyical torment and a supernatural element is often present

Henry David Thoreau

American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. *He wrote Walden.* He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support the Mexican War.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement., wrote essays such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature"

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet was the first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Wrote "Upon the Burning of Our House"

"Upon the Burning of our House"

Anne Bradstreet; she exemplifies Puritan plain style, instills fear to show God's power, shows the Puritan emphasis on a simple life and devotion to God. Anne writes this poem about the way that she and her family were becoming too attached to the physical and material things that they owned and so God burned them all away so that they would become more pious like they were supposed to be. She felt glad that he had taken away her home and possessions.

"To My Dear and Loving Husband"

Anne Bradstreet; the poem begins by describing the compatibility between the speaker and her husband. The speaker then describes how much she values her husband's love, how strong her love is, and how she will never be able to repay her husband for his love. The poem concludes with the speaker urging herself and her husband to "persevere" in their love for another so that they can live forever.

"Reconciliation"

Author: Walt Whitman -Themes within the poem include love your enemies and death cleanses.

"The Outcasts of Poker Flat"

By Bret Harte. Four people are banned from their town for doing "bad deeds." They get snowed into a cabin they were staying in on the mountains and eventually die. Many stereotypes: Oakhurst: apparent success, Billy: blackhearted villian, Mother Shipton: prostitute with a heart of gold, Tom: the innocent

The power of evil in trying to find someone's secret

Chillingworth in trying to figure out Pearl's father.

"Because I Could not Stop for Death"

Death, in the form of a gentleman suitor, stops to pick up the speaker and take her on a ride in his horse-drawn carriage. They move along at a pretty relaxed pace and the speaker seems completely at ease with the gentleman. As they pass through the town, she sees children at play, fields of grain, and the setting sun. As dusk sets in our speaker gets a little chilly, as she is completely under-dressed - only wearing a thin silk shawl for a coat. She was unprepared for her impromptu date with Death when she got dressed that morning. They stop at what will be her burial ground, marked with a small headstone. In the final stanza, we find out the speaker's ride with Death took place centuries ago (so she's been dead for a long time). But it seems like just yesterday when she first got the feeling that horse heads (like those of the horses that drew the "death carriage") pointed toward "Eternity"; or, in other words, signaled the passage from life to death to an afterlife.

"Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"

Dickinson, Talks about worshiping in a non traditional church setting that is founded in nature. Tone is semi condescending/ defensive. THEME = NATURE & RELIGION

Names: Pearl, Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth

Dimmsdale=dim. he symbolizes darkness and hippocratic behavior. He also symbolizes that even though a man is holy or good they still sin. Pearl=Hester probably considers Pearl beautiful and rare, just like real pearls. Puritans also considered pearls as a luxury and vanity. Hester and Dimsdale sinned when they had an affair, and Pearl is the result of that luxury and vanity. Pearls are created by an irritant entering an oyster, usually a piece of sand or grit. Hester was the irritant thrust into the oyster that was the Puritan society. She "spoke out" via her affair with Dimsdale. The result is Pearl. Hester="Prynne" sounds like "prim," a Puritan virtue. Chillingworth=cold and calculating

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allen Poe; A short story about a friend (narrator) visiting the decaying House of Usher. One instantly recognizes the theme of death, in the house, it's two inhabitants (Roderick+ Madeline) who are dying, and even the setting of the season (fall). The tale is supposed to be terrifying, and Poe makes it that way by giving the reader connections. Roderick and Madeline are not just brother and sister but twins who share "sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature" which connect his mental disintegration to her physical decline. As Madeline's mysterious illness approaches physical paralysis, Roderick's mental agitation takes the form of a "morbid acuteness of the senses" that separates his body from the physical world. Poe explores the inner workings of the human imagination but, at the same time, cautions the reader about the destructive dangers within. When fantasy suppresses reality and the physical self, as in Roderick's case, what results is madness and mental death. Madeline's return and actual death reunites the twin natures of their single being. The true focus of this story is the narrator's reaction to and understanding of these strange events. Even to look into the dark imagination where fantasy becomes reality is to evoke madness. That is why Roderick twice refers to the narrator as "Madman" in the final scene. The narrator has made a journey into the underworld of the mind and is nearly destroyed by it; however, he manages to escape and turns to watch as the "House of Usher" crumbles. (LONG. D:), *A short story about a man who visits his mentally ill friend (Roderick) and the friend's deathly-sick sister (Madeline). Madeline dies and is buried in the mansion's vault, but after a week, the she escapes and has her revenge on Roderick for burying her alive, while the narrator escapes and watches as the mansion burns to the ground*

"Huswifery"

Edward Taylor. Expresses his wish to serve God. The "conceit" of a spinning wheel shows the speaker's desire to be part of God's plan--a device through which God is transmitted. He talks about how he would like to be used by God for good, and that he wishes for God to completely take over his life. The man in the poem uses a spinning wheel as an analogy as to how he wishes to be closer to God.

"Nature"

Emerson's best known essay 1836; in the quest for self-fulfillment individuals should work for a common communion with the natural world

"I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed"

Emily Dickinson, compares abstract nature to an intoxicating substance. The poem is not about liquor or drunkenness. It is about the beauty of nature and how you can feel drunk on the metaphorical beauty of it. She describes being drunk on air and dew.

"This is my Letter to the World"

Emily Dickinson; . Emily writes about her work as the letters she presents to the world. But the world never wrote back to her because they never realized how much talent she had during the time that she was alive. She seemed to be able to predict that someday people will be reading her poems and learning about her world views. She wished to pass on the messages and lessons that nature had taught her. She saw the world as a place she wanted to shield herself against and so she never left her house and always kept in isolation to where she never stepped foot past her house/garden. At the same time, she still wanted the world to see her work as something that is influential and can even today change lives. Nature was important to Emily because it showed a world that did not judge or ask for anything in return. Emily Dickinson uses unique literary devices to portray her thoughts to all those that read her words. Emily used slant rhymes which are words that do not rhyme exactly and uses dashes to highlight important words,. At the end of the lines, emily uses figurative language, which are words capitalized for emphasis. The theme of the poem is that if people were to judge, they should judge by the truth. In Emily Dickinson's form of literature, her works shows individuality and how she perceives the world.

"My Life Closed Twice before it's Close"

Emily Dickinson; Pattern ABCB DEFE, On a personal level, the poem's speaker is telling of the losses he or she has suffered, so painful that they were like death itself. Though the speaker has not yet experienced real, physical death, he or she cannot bear to imagine anything that could be more terrible than the two deprivations already experienced. The speaker does not tell us what these losses were, but one might imagine some bereavement—the death of a loved one, the end of a passionate affair. On a universal level, the poem describes the great tragedy of human life, for to be human is to suffer loss. Here heaven and hell, great symbolic opposites according to conventional wisdom, come together in their relationships to the word "parting." If there is a heaven, all we know of it is that we must leave behind our loves and lives on this earth in order to enter there. At the same time, all human beings, to some degree, have known the misery of the private hell of separation and loss because that is an unavoidable part of human experience.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Wrote poems such as , "Success is counted sweetest" and, "Much Madness is Divinest Sense"

Flashbacks

Events in the story are interrupted for events that took place in an earlier time

Identity

Ex: Huck finding his identity, Hester losing her identity to the Scarlet Letter, Chillingworth being consumed by rage.

The River

For Huck and Jim, the Mississippi River is the ultimate symbol of freedom. Alone on their raft, they do not have to answer to anyone. The river carries them toward freedom: for Jim, toward the free states; for Huck, away from his abusive father and the restrictive "sivilizing" of St. Petersburg. Much like the river itself, Huck and Jim are in flux, willing to change their attitudes about each other with little prompting. Despite their freedom, however, they soon find that they are not completely free from the evils and influences of the towns on the river's banks. Even early on, the real world intrudes on the paradise of the raft: the river floods, bringing Huck and Jim into contact with criminals, wrecks, and stolen goods. Then, a thick fog causes them to miss the mouth of the Ohio River, which was to be their route to freedom. As the novel progresses, then, the river becomes something other than the inherently benevolent place Huck originally thought it was. As Huck and Jim move further south, the duke and the dauphin invade the raft, and Huck and Jim must spend more time ashore. Though the river continues to offer a refuge from trouble, it often merely effects the exchange of one bad situation for another. Each escape exists in the larger context of a continual drift southward, toward the Deep South and entrenched slavery. In this transition from idyllic retreat to source of peril, the river mirrors the complicated state of the South. As Huck and Jim's journey progresses, the river, which once seemed a paradise and a source of freedom, becomes merely a short-term means of escape that nonetheless pushes Huck and Jim ever further toward danger and destruction.

The Forest is a place for truth and freedom

Hester and Dimmesdale talk only in the forrest. Pearl tells Hester many things in the forest. Hester is free and takes her hair down there, which symbolizes freedom.

LIving in a Cabin Away From Society

Hester did this, symbolized that Hester did not want to fit, or that she never could. She was an outsider to the community.

Psychological reality

How we see the world as reality, through our perception

The power of imagination

Huck Finn: How Huck uses his imagination and what he gains vs. Tom's imagination. -Also, Huck uses his imagination to get him out of tricky problems

The corruptness of civilization: the failure of civilization

Huck Finn: really good paragraph about this on sparknotes "When Huck plans to head west at the end of the novel in order to escape further "sivilizing," he is trying to avoid more than regular baths and mandatory school attendance. Throughout the novel, Twain depicts the society that surrounds Huck as little more than a collection of degraded rules and precepts that defy logic. This faulty logic appears early in the novel, when the new judge in town allows Pap to keep custody of Huck. The judge privileges Pap's "rights" to his son as his natural father over Huck's welfare. At the same time, this decision comments on a system that puts a white man's rights to his "property"—his slaves—over the welfare and freedom of a black man. In implicitly comparing the plight of slaves to the plight of Huck at the hands of Pap, Twain implies that it is impossible for a society that owns slaves to be just, no matter how "civilized" that society believes and proclaims itself to be. Again and again, Huck encounters individuals who seem good—Sally Phelps, for example—but who Twain takes care to show are prejudiced slave-owners. This shaky sense of justice that Huck repeatedly encounters lies at the heart of society's problems: terrible acts go unpunished, yet frivolous crimes, such as drunkenly shouting insults, lead to executions. Sherburn's speech to the mob that has come to lynch him accurately summarizes the view of society Twain gives in Huckleberry Finn: rather than maintain collective welfare, society instead is marked by cowardice, a lack of logic, and profound selfishness.

Slavery

Huge part in Huck Finn -The realization for Huck on whether or not, not telling Miss Watson about Jim was bad and how the whiles treated the blacks.

Hanging Witches

In the Crucible. Did this out of fear. Abigal made the whole thing up and because of it many innocent women and men died.

"Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God"

In this sermon given by "New Light" preacher Jonathan Edwards in 1741, churchgoers were told that God was angry with the sinners of the Earth, and only those who obeyed God's word would be free from damnation.

Anaphora

Literary device of repetition, in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a series of lines. (eg Martin Luther King's repetition of the phrase "I have a dream that...")

Trying to commit the perfect crime doesn't always work

Mutiple examples

Metaphysical Conceit

Overblown comparison, fairly unrealistic but clear, as in comparing woman to rose

Free Verse

Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

"The Interesting Narrative"

Published in 1789. Was described as a history of a victim of slavery who through luck or fate ended up more fortunate than most of his people. He condemned the idea that Africans were inferior to Europeans and therefore deserved to be slaves. He insisted that persons of all races were capable of intellectual improvement. Became the era's most widely read account by a slave of his own experiences.

Repetition

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

"An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge"

Southern planter from Alabama captured by Union soliders and thrown off a bridge with a noose. Dreams he escapes and goes to his family but then at the end the readers find that he made up that entire part between the time he was thrown off the bridge and the rope snapped his neck.

A poppet

The Crucible: Mary Warren, who is the Proctors housekeeper, presents Elizabeth with this gift when she comes to court. She does this to frame her.

Scaffold

The scaffold scenes are one of the most dramatic structuring devices in The Scarlet Letter. They provide a framework for the entire novel and help highlight the most important themes. In the first scaffold scene, Hester and Pearl stand alone, publicly humiliated, while Dimmesdale watches from the side, standing with the other leaders of the community. Emotionally and physically, he is separate from her, but she bravely bears her solitary suffering. Presented in all of its beauty, the scarlet letter symbolizes her artistry and imagination, showing her in contrast to her more conventional lover. From the sidelines, Chillingworth, Hester's husband, learns of his wife's transgression. An evil impulse almost immediately grows within his heart, as shown by the imagery of the "writhing," snake-like horror that moves from his face into the "depths of his nature." The second scaffold scene contains nearly all the same elements. This time, though, the scene occurs at night, nearly seven years after the novel's action begins. Rather than highlighting Hester's suffering, this scene focuses on Dimmesdale's guilt and remorse, which have led him to the edge of insanity. While in the chapter preceding this one they were divided, here Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale stand hand-in-hand, forming an "electric chain." Hester learns the extent to which Chillingsworth has been torturing Dimmesdale, and she makes the important decision to save him from his enemy. However, Pearl shows that Dimmesdale's repentance isn't complete when she asks him if he'll stand on the scaffold with her and her mother in the light of day. He won't. Of course, Chillingworth, the embodiment of evil, is present once again on the sidelines. The scarlet letter makes an appearance as a glowing light in the sky, telling Dimmesdale that even nature knows of his guilt. The final scaffold scene in some ways mimics the first. Once again, all the major characters meet in the marketplace in full daylight. Hester is again the object of unwanted attention due to the scarlet letter, making her an outcast, while Dimmesdale is exalted as a saint. But this scene is different, because Dimmesdale is dying. Realizing that this is his last opportunity to confess before his death, Dimmesdale finds courage to perform this vital act, if for no other reason than to save his soul. As in the second scaffold scene, Hester's strength is emphasized: Dimmesdale needs her to carry him up the scaffold where he can make this revelation. Chillingworth's evil has become full-blown, but his power over Dimmesdale is now gone, because the minister chooses the path of truth. His death frees Pearl from her role as symbol of her parents' guilt, so she can become a compassionate and caring human being. In this scene, the scarlet letter makes its appearance on Dimmesdale's chest.

"Hope is the Thing With Feathers"

The speaker describes hope as a bird ("the thing with feathers") that perches in the soul. There, it sings wordlessly and without pause. The song of hope sounds sweetest "in the Gale," and it would require a terrifying storm to ever "abash the little Bird / That kept so many warm." The speaker says that she has heard the bird of hope "in the chillest land— / And on the strangest Sea—", but never, no matter how extreme the conditions, did it ever ask for a single crumb from her.

"I Never Saw the Moor"

The speaker in this poem begins by explaining the things she has never seen, yet she knows exist like the "Moor" and the "Sea." She then goes to say that despite the fact that she's never seen them, she knows they exist and what they look like and what they are. Dickinson then makes her point in the second stanza. While she has "never spoke with God/nor visited in Heaven" she knows, because of the speaker's strong faith, that God and Heaven are as real as the sea. This is a poem about faith and religion and the idea that even if you can not see something it does not mean you can not believe it or it does not exist. You can still "know" that things you can not provide proof for are real.

"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"

The speaker recalls walking through some grass and scaring a snake away. The speaker describes this in vivid and strange ways, and develops it into an extended metaphor. The snake reminds the speaker of meeting certain people that take his breath away. And the rhyme scheme would be ABAB

"The Soul Selects her Own Society"

The speaker says that "the Soul selects her own Society—" and then "shuts the Door," refusing to admit anyone else—even if "an Emperor be kneeling / Upon her mat—." Indeed, the soul often chooses no more than a single person from "an ample nation" and then closes "the Valves of her attention" to the rest of the world.

Feuds

Think Grangerford's vs Sheperdson's.

"Friendship"

This essay is purely based on Friendship and the depth of the relation. Emerson valued relationships highly. In this work, Emerson says that when two people meet who think alike, they grow intellectually and spiritually through affection. Friendship teaches us many valuable things in life and through friendship we learn to fully admire and sincerely comment on one another for the accomplishments. We truly enjoy being in one another's company and we are happy for their achievements. When we are with our best friend, time just flies by and our sorrows and tragedies all vanish and just their company would keep us happy. Always a good friend would appreciate the fine qualities in us and we could just be ourselves with them. Even if two people do not see for a very long time, their hearts do speak. They can feel each other, even if they are miles apart and when they meet after ages, they could just start from where they left. That depth is the understanding between two people. Friendship deepens with age. Even when you grow old, and when you spend some time with your old friend, memories just pours out as though it all happened yesterday and you could laugh your heads out. It may look a bit odd for an outsider, but as long as we enjoy, the outsider could never understand the fun that friends are having. Having a real friend is one great blessing as we can just forget the rest of the world when we are with them.

"There's a Certain Slant of Light"

This poem is written in four stanzas with the rhyming scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GHGH. The light that she speaks of discovering on the winter afternoons is an oppressive, sad weight that feels like death to her. We can all relate to those times during winter when we feel the weight of all the trees, grass and flowers dying and are reminded of our own pains in this life.

"Self Reliance"

This shows the finest example of "individualism". "trust thyself"- every individual possesses a unique genius that can be revealed through the courage of a person. he says that you are "made this way for a reason"- use your intuition because God has given that to you. Being unique is a good thing. He says that society "coerces men to conform". we have the right and responsibility to think for ourselves.

"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Walt Whitman, A person can learn more through experiencing the situation than learning about it in a class room (a lecture).

A Noiseless Patient Spider

Walt Whitman, compares a human to a spider in the great search for the meaning of life

"One's Self I Sing"

Walt Whitman; a simple poem written in free verse, his muse, as he says, is his Self, both as an individual entity, as well as a member of the human community; Man, and Woman, whose being is greater than the sum of their physical and mental make-up; and the power of a life lived under the laws of God and Man.

Ripping up a letter

When Huck tears up the letter, it is a symbol of how he is rejecting the narrow-minded hate of prejudice. One line from this chapter: "All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up. (Ch. 31) This is a very significant line because it demonstrates the American spirit of independence. There is nothing more important to Americans than being able to make up their own minds. Huck has done that. He has rejected the institution of slavery completely, and with it he is rejecting mainstream society. Huck believes he will go to Hell for this, but he doesn't care, because to him he is doing the right thing.

"A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown"

Whitman: the middle of war

"Of Plymouth Plantation"

William Bradford's book; tells us much of what we know about the Pilgrims, -the narrative records the death and burial at sea of a "very profane young man, one of the seamen" who earlier ridiculed the colonist for their seasickness on the voyage to the new world -hardships:settling in a strange land worsened by winter, rough winds and seas made the long trip difficult, harsh winter killed off half of population

Unreliable Narrator

a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted

Allusions

a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature

Regionalism

an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot

Moral Code of the Old West

hypocritical, whimsical, spontaneous moral code, strict

"Fate"

in Emerson's essay "Fate," it explains that a person's life is fully controlled by fate or destiny as we call it and supernatural forces or greater beings control an individual's life for better or worse.

Hypocrisy

insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have

Picaresque novel

life story of a rascal, a rogue, a "picaro." A picaresque novel follows the episodic adventures of this "picaro." -Huck Finn

Malapropism

the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar (abominable snowman vs abdominal snowman)

Disguises

think Huck Finn and the king and the duke. Also, could incorporate The Crucible: the disguise Abigal put on aka she lied and pretended to be cursed by witches just to get back at the people she did not like (Proctor's wife)