The Effects And Implications Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter
.... a more intangible manner of exclusion also exists, in that
Hester becomes a pariah. She is subject to derision and malice from the
lowliest of vagrants to the most genteel of individuals of the community,
though many are often the recipients of her care and attention: “The
poor...whom she sought out to be the objects of her bounty, often reviled
the hand that was stretched forth to succor them...Dames of elevated rank,
likewise, were accustomed to distill drops of bitterness into her heart.”
Hester cannot feel any sort of kinship with the townspeople in light of the
treatment she receives from them, thus alienatin .....
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The Effects Of Sin In The Scarlet Letter
.... the sin Hester committed changes her personality and identity.
Once a beautiful woman, Hester now looks plain and drab. Once passionate,
she is now somber and serious. She had contained a precious quality of
womanhood that has now faded away. Her plain gray clothes symbolize her
temperament and disposition. There are also good effects that the sin has
on her. She becomes more giving and caring, and is endlessly helping the
poor and sick and doing neighbors favors. Hester feels that she owes it
to the community, and is also forcing herself into a life of service to
others. The sin stays with her throughout her life, and .....
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The Effect Of Sterotyping In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn And Intruder In The Dust
.... money behind a curtain in their room, but then the duke thinks that
they did not hide the money well enough. Huck observes them hiding the
money and describes it. "They took and shoved the bag through a rip in the
straw tick that was under the feather bed, and crammed it a foot or two
amongst the straw and said it was all right, now, because a n_____ only
makes up the feather bed, and don't turn over the straw tick only about
twice a year, and so it warn't in no danger of getting stole, now." (Twain
235). The reasoning behind the duke and king's action shows the stereotype
that they have towards the Negro slaves. They think th .....
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The Influence Of Realism In Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilyich
.... was to see who would take Ivan's position at work. Another
example of illusion of reality is when Ivan is lying down in excruciating
pain and his wife, daughter, and son-in-law enter. Ivan sits and watches
as they ignore the pain he is enduring to argue about something as petty as
opera glasses. This seemed true to life because people cannot address a
situation as big as death, so they talk around it. Ivan is dumbfounded by
their apathy in the presence of his impending death. They then said, if
they were going, it was time they left. At this point, Ivan wishes to be
with Gerasim. Gerasim is the contrast to the other minor cha .....
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The Effects Of Setting On Character In "The Masque Of Red Death" And "The Shawl"
.... are what kept them alive.
In comparison of the way the setting affected character, we see
they were quite alike also. Prospero's morbid lifestyle was quite unusual.
His room of black with scarlet panes of glass, his ebony clock with a low
dull monotonous chime and the bizarre masquerade party all show he was
unusual and fascinated with the bizarre. Stella's description of ravenous
black hair, the cold weather, and her unfeeling for others made her out to
be quite unusual as well. Also both characters were seen to be selfish but
in different ways. Yet it is quite similar. Prospero had a kingdom yet he
separated himself .....
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The Effect Of Prejudice In To Kill A Mockingbird
.... to go outside, he will be unfairly viewed as a visitor from
abroad because of his mysterious ways. Boo stays inside his home because
he knows that his society will ridicule him. After being isolated for so
many years, Boo is developmentally challenged. Boo has lost his basic
social skills and will not survive outside of his home.
Boo is the object of rumors and is viewed as the towns erratic
figure. The town speculates what he does inside his home. People believe
that Boo "went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows…
any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work"(9). The town
would .....
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The Great Gatsby: A Full Spectrum Of Character
.... by his collection of fine,
tailored shirts. It would seem that Tom's relative wealth, also, had at one
time impressed her enough to win her in marriage. In contrast to that,
Gatsby seems to not care a bit about money itself, but rather only about
the possibility that it can win over Daisy. In fact, Gatsby's extreme
generosity gives the reader the impression that Gatsby would otherwise have
never even worked at attaining wealth had it not been for Daisy. For Gatsby,
the only thing of real importance was his pursuit of Daisy. It would seem
that these elements are combined, too in the character Myrtle. Myrtle is,
as Daisy, impressed .....
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Gray's "The Epitaph": An Analysis
.... "Large was his
bounty, and his soul sincere" was how the man lived, and although his soul
was a true one, he was still a marked man, and now he is only marked with a
stone that protrudes from the ground known as The Epitaph.
God is a part of life which gray dispises. He goes against the
idea of a belief in one immortal being who rules over people and casts
judgments and leaves some people for broke. "The bosom of his father and
his god" were those that were unhelpful in the dead man's life, because he
ended up just as everyone else will, dead, it is just that he was not
blessed with as much life. Gray probably knew someone who .....
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher: Poe's Writing Technique
.... in the story Poe's use of symbolism in his gothic stories is
a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a
symbolist is one of his strengths, for it means that he only turns to
symbolism when it has a distinct role to play. His symbolism generally
takes the form of allowing some object to stand for an abstraction or
personal attribute. Five persons figure into this tale, but the interest
centers exclusively in one-RoderickUsher.(Levine, 125, Buranelli 85)
Roderick, cadaverous eyes, large liquid and luminous beyond comparison.
His lips are very thin and pale. Usher suffered from a morbid acuteness .....
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The Role Of Nick Carraway As Narrator In The Great Gatsby
.... is endowed with a keen sense of observation which he uses to reveal the
nature of each character. Through Nick, the reader is able to sense the
shallow emotional depth Tom Buchanan is capable of experiencing and his
apparent harshness of attitude towards others. The brutality of Tom
towards his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, as described by Nick (page 37, line 5
- below) is highly demonstrative of this fact. In comparison, we see
Gatsby, on the other hand as generally being a physically an emotionally
reserved person (but not when it comes to Daisy). His general hospitality
and mysteriousness as described by Nick creates an air .....
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Steinbeck's "The Flight": Naturalism
.... would put a spider web in their wound.
When he relizes that his time of running has come to an end he begins to
turn to his religion. He starts to “cross” his chest as a Roman Catholic
would. Then his time comes and he pretty much commits suicide.
When Pepe leaves his home his sister has already predicted his fate
and everyone knew what was going to happen to him. It is was his
environment that killed him. Pepe adventure begins because of a death and
his adventure ends with a death of him.
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Frankenstein: The Forbidden Fruit
.... months did he learn of the ways of mankind. He
became self-aware and learned common knowledge. He tediously acquired a
written and oral language. Then he yearned to meet his benefactors. For
years after his creation, the Creature was innocent.
Throughout his bitter life, the Creature was dealt one blow from
humanity after another. After spending time in the cold, wet woods, he
sought more adequate shelter. He found the small house of a shepherd, who
ran in terror after beholding the so far harmless, yet hideous, Creature.
The Creature was disturbed, but did not give it a second thought after
finding and consuming the .....
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