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The Devil And Daniel Webster
767 wordsThe play "The Devil and Daniel Webster" was written by Stephen Vincent Bent in 1938. Stephen Vincent Bent was born in 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His education came from Yale University and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has a wide array of characters, each with a distinguished personality, yet an overall temperament that would be fitting of a New England community. The main character is Jabez Stone, a wealthy New England statesman whose position was the state...
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Folklore And Stephen Vincent Benet
1,074 wordsIn 1898, Stephen Vincent Benet was born into a military family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He had an older brother and one sister, all of who became well known authors of the 20 th century. As Stephen grew up he constantly heard folktales that had been passed down from generation to generation, and as he began to write books, his great knowledge of folklore becomes evident. In the story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Benet writes a classic short story about how a normal human could soften the he...
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Devil And Daniel Webster Orson Welles
2,434 wordsThe Devil and Tom Walker is a folk tale about a greedy man who meets the devil in a swamp in the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. Tom Walker and his wife are very greedy and are always trying to outdo each other. When Tom meets the devil for the very first time, the devil tells him of the great sums of money that was buried by Kidd, the pirate under the oak tree in the swamp. The devil makes the money available to Tom, but Tom does not comply just to spite his wife. The wife then decides to m...
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Devil And Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent
1,412 wordsStephen Vincent Benet Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the fight for freedom can a world advance in its literary achievements. A writer, just like an artist, builds his creations from the mood and settings of the surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social genre of the time gave way ...
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Devil And Daniel Webster Jabez Stone
1,165 wordsThe Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet is truly an exemplary short story which instills upon the reader the very difficult struggle between good and evil, heaven and hell. The purpose for writing this piece was to convey the message that, at times, it is necessary to gamble everything one has in order to improve his or her life and that of their families. Benet manages to convey this message in the story through his many uses of literary techniques such as foreshadowing and chara...
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