The Scarlet Letter: Use Of Romanticism In Development Of Characters
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child. Although the usual penalty for adultery is death, the Puritan
magistrates have decided to be merciful to her declaring that Hester's
punishment will be to stand for several hours on the scaffold, in full view
of everyone. In this "powerful but painful story," (Chorley 184) Hester
realizes her sin, and acknowledges that she must pay the price for her
crimes. She might, Hawthorne tells us, have left the narrow-minded colony
to start life all over again in a place where no one knew her story. The
sea leads back to England, or for a woman of Hester's strength, the track
leads onward into the wilderness. But Hester tur .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What A Change!
.... to illustrate the conflict between the desire to confess and the
necessity of self-concealment. Hawthorne grew up with his two sisters and
their widowed mother, and an uncle saw to his education at Bowdoin College.
In 1852, Hawthorne wrote the campaign biography of Franklin Pierce, an old
college friend. The best of Hawthorn's early fiction was gathered in
Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, and The Snow-Image. These
capture the complexity's of the New England Puritan heritage. Hawthorne's
writing had a wide range of influence upon people, such as Melville who
dedicated the great classic Moby-Dick to him. .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Attitudes
.... settlement, Hester could
return to Europe to start over. She decides to stay because she makes
herself believe that the town "has been the scene of her guilt, and here
should be the scene of her earthly punishment" (84). This belief gives the
impression that she views her action as a sin and feels a need to further
punish herself. But this belief only covers her actual feelings. To the
contrary, as Hawthorne describes, her real reason for staying is that
"There dwelt, there trod the feet of one with whom she deemed herself
connected in a union, that, unrecognized on earth, would bring them
together before the bar of final jud .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden And Reznor
.... a nonstop chronic beat, has made
his soul numb. He has lost track of reality and fallen into this deep hole.
Mr. Antolini, Holden's old teacher, said to him that he was headed for a
great fall. Little did he know that throughout the novel, Holden has been
falling until he reached a stopping point towards the end of the story,
when he decides to stay home. This is exactly what Reznor is trying to
dictate in his song. All these events have made him continuously suffer
that at one point, the pain just goes away. The suffering that Holden
feels, the drunk, sick, child in danger of catching pneumonia easily
relates to the dying, b .....
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Hololiterature: A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet Letter
.... (So named because viewing it requires shining the same coherent
light back through it) The laser is placed on a platform in the sand and a
mirror directs the light diagonally across the table. A beamsplitter
divides the beam into two parts. One goes to a mirror that directs the
light through a spreading lens onto the photographic plate at an angle.
The other beam is bounced off a mirror and through a spreading lens onto
the object to be holographed. The table is allowed to settle and an
exposure made. The light from the first beam, called the reference beam,
and the reflected light from the object combine to produce micros .....
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Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Desai's "Clear Light Of Day": Tension And Conflict Between Traditional And Modern Views
.... to build their
churches on there was no turning back. Many of the abused and outcast were
converted when they saw that these new people prospered in the evil lands.
The people started to revolt against their traditional gods. "Three
converts had gone into the village and boasted openly that all the gods
were dead and impotent" They were beaten severely. With the coming of
governmen t the Christians gained power and shook the faith of the old ways.
I believe the book pivots on this statement:
"Does the white man understand our custom about land? How can he when he
does not even speak our tongue? But he says that our cust .....
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How Huck Uses His Creativity, Luck, And Wits To Get Rid Of The Pits
.... in the Cabin, and
slaughtered it, making sure that it left behind a pool of blood on the hard
packed dirt ground. He disposed of the dead hog by throwing it in the
river to float downstream. Huck also opened a sack of corn and left a
trail leading to a shallow lake nearby. Before leaving the cabin, he
filled another sack with rocks, and made a path toward the river. This was
done to simulate the trail of the robbers dragging their bounty to the
river bank. Huckleberry hoped that pap would think he was killed by a
group of robbers that stole all his possessions. After using these tactics
to avert any search parties, he floa .....
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How The Main Characters In "Crime And Punishment" And "One Day In The Life
.... No-one's come out of a ‘special' alive."
This shows how severe the conditions are as no-one has ever lasted a mere
eight years. "A couple of hundred grams ruled your life." Here, he tells
the reader that a few hundred grams of bread would determine a man's life
in that camp showing how little food is given to the prisoners. He is
forced to live and work in conditions that would repulse the average person
today. "The belly is a rascal. It doesn't remember how well you treated it
yesterday , it'll cry out for more tomorrow." The way these people were
treated were inhumane and intolerable, yet Shukov continued to survive.
Work wa .....
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Huck Finn Is A Very Troubled Young Boy
.... accepts they are very gracious. When they arrive on the
raft and notice that Jim is a black slave they inquire about him. They ask
Huck if he's a runaway slave and they seem interested in selling him for a
good price. Huck being the great thinker he is argues, "why would a slave
be going south?". That really stumps the two men and they leave it at that.
It is instances like these where Huck is able to think quickly and lie his
way out of situations that makes him able to survive on his own.
Another instance which I can remember clearly is when Huck fakes his
death in the very beginning of the book. When Huck is broug .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Contradiction
.... it on the back side, and slung the ax in the corner" (24). If Huck
were lazy, he would not have gone through all that trouble to escape, if he
escaped at all. A lazy person would have just stayed there and not worried
about what happened. At another point in the novel, Huck and a runaway
slave, Jim, are on an island where they think they will not get caught.
Huck decides to go to town to get information dressed as a girl. "So we
shortened up one of the calico gowns and I turned up my trouser-legs to my
knees and got into it. I put on the sun-bonnet and tied it under my chin.
I practiced around all day to get the hang of .....
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Huck Finn's Conflict With Society
.... is still present in society today. There are many
reported cases of clergy having affairs or molesting children. For
instance, Reverend Baker has had relationships with prostitutes. He always
apologizes, but then he does it again. One of the precepts of the Catholic
religion is to follow the instructions of the Pope. Many Catholics however,
do not follow the Pope's instructions on birth control or abortion.
Government officials are also hypocritical. They preach family values, yet
often they do not follow these values. Senator Packwood resigned from the
Senate for his actions. Dick Morris lost his job and his respect ov .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Decides To Reject Civilization
.... go to shore, something negative involving civilization would arise.
The dark side of human nature and suffering would meet up with the two of
them. They always stumbled upon the under-belly of society.
The symbol of human suffering was the Grangerfords family. When
Huck found himself in front of their farm after the ship wreck, his first
impression was a positive one. He thought that the Grangerfords were a
pleasant, normal family. However the dark secrets that existed within the
family could make skin crawl. The paintings and writings made by Emmeline
Grangerford, who died when she was fourteen, are of rather morbid subj .....
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