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The Elysian Muse

Youth literary magazine

The Elysian Muse

Youth literary magazine

The Elysian Muse

Photography by Silja Pietilä, 18, Finland

Photography by Safia Henniche, 16, Boston

Photography by Safia Henniche, 16, Boston

Dear Readers and Contributors,

 

I would like to take the opportunity to personally thank you all for the continuous love and support, especially through the pandemic. In just under 6 months, we’ve come so far; the magazine has been featured on Publish YOUth Writing and Poets & Writers, and the editorial team reached a whooping milestone of 100+ Advice Articles written! As we continue grow our global outreach, we’ve published over 280 creators from 25 U.S. States, 25 countries, and 6 continents across the world! 

 

It’s been a pleasure growing this community over the past three years, so I know I speak for the entire editorial board when I say we hold this magazine and our contributors close to our hearts. It takes a tremendous amount of research and effort to manage the magazine, which is why we're so thankful for all of your support. We encourage you to share our publications and Advice Articles to help our other young creators who may be interested in pursuing their craft.

 

Cheers,

Lori Khadse

Founder, Nonfiction Editor in Chief

The Elysian Muse Youth Literary Magazine

Dear Readers and Contributors,

 

I would like to take the opportunity to personally thank you all for the continuous love and support, especially through the pandemic. In just under 6 months, we’ve come so far; the magazine has been featured on Publish YOUth Writing and Poets & Writers, and the editorial team reached a whooping milestone of 100+ Advice Articles written! As we continue grow our global outreach, we’ve published over 280 creators from 25 U.S. States, 25 countries, and 6 continents across the world! 

 

It’s been a pleasure growing this community over the past three years, so I know I speak for the entire editorial board when I say we hold this magazine and our contributors close to our hearts. It takes a tremendous amount of research and effort to manage the magazine, which is why we're so thankful for all of your support. We encourage you to share our publications and Advice Articles to help our other young creators who may be interested in pursuing their craft.

 

Cheers,

Lori Khadse

Founder, Nonfiction Editor in Chief

The Elysian Muse Youth Literary Magazine

Photography by Safia Henniche, 16, Boston

Editors' Choice Works

 

Hawthorne's Irony

Written by Anon

 

The irony and the real point Hawthorne makes about Puritan society in the passage:

“Truly, friend, and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness… to find yourself, at length, in a land where iniquity is searched out, and punished in the sight of rulers and people; as here in our godly New England.” is truly evident. In chapter three of The Scarlet Letter, “The Recognition”, Nathaniel Hawthorne utilizes dramatic irony to highlight the corrupt nature of Boston’s theocracy. When Roger Chillingworth returns to Boston for the first time in two years, a townsman comments that Roger must be happy to find himself “... in a land where iniquity is searched out, and punished…” as a public matter, put on display with the purpose of disciplining the criminal and serving as a symbol of evil for the citizens (Hawthorne 70). Though the townspeople pride themselves in Boston’s public display of sin, Roger is not comforted by Boston’s execution of the law. While nature’s freedom allows Roger Chillingworth to live free from Boston’s theocratic laws and its society’s judgment, once he returns to Boston, he is forced to live under a fake alias in order to avoid facing the public shame of his wife’s sin and the life-long ridicule that is ensured to follow. Though this example of dramatic irony, Hawthorne demonstrates the unrecognized cruelty of Boston’s government that is accepted as right and just.