Moby Dick And The Scarlet Letter: Unpardonable Sin
.... carried by individual members of the same society a hundred years later. This gives the theme of the unpardonable sin personal importance and understanding of the social causes that happened over a lifetime before the effects that still linger.
Reading Hawthorne’s Ethan Brand, Rappaccinni’s Daughter, and Young Goodman Brown, in this order elucidates a view of Hawthorne’s theme of the unpardonable sin. The story of Ethan Brand defines the unpardonable sin. Ethan pointedly narrates precisely what the unpardonable sin is. In Rappaccinni’s Daughter, a larger statement is made about the unpardonable sin and its relation to original sin .....
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A Room Of One’s Own: Cranial Spelunking
.... giving her a pen and paper. By placing your stream of thoughts on paper, you can easily explore how the human mind processes information. The flow from one thought to another is like a stream (thus the name). More often than not, visual stimuli are what form the current that directs the stream. This is especially true in younger children.
Often times a child will run, fall, bump his head, look around, start crying, see a toy, stop crying, run to get the toy, see a dog, chase the dog, etc. This is because the human mind at this point has no interference from past experiences or any desire to find meaning. You will never see a ch .....
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“Pearl: The Scarlet Letter Endowed With Life”
.... acts as a guardian angel to Hester and Dimmesdale. She both guides them and teaches them the true lessons of life.
In the beginning of The Scarlet Letter, the infant Pearl represents the immoral love affair between Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. The whole town recognizes the fact that Hester had committed adultery because her husband had not been seen for over two years, and Hester had just bore a child who was only a few months old. When Hester walks to the scaffold, ready to pay for her crime, she realizes that the infant symbolizes her sin of adultery. She opposes the temptation to use the child to cover up the scar .....
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The Great Gatsby: Characters Show The Deterioration Of The American Dream
.... not attain anything else. He has no respect, power, or success. Gatsby realized that the life of the higher class requires wealth to become their priority and he realizes that is the only way which will allow him to be with Daisy. When Gatsby fails to reach his dream all he has left to show for is his wealth, which was not even gained morally. Gatsby engaged in criminal activity as his only path to being among the rich. His need for money had become so intense that he "was in the drug business" (95). He had entered a world where money took precedence over moral integrity.
Gatsby shows yet another way that the American dre .....
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Broken Wigwag
.... While sitting at the dinner table at a chic Soho restaurant, Satomi recounts in her mind, “The age I live in, at this place, I was ill at ease. I felt I didn’t belong here at all. I could never act like I was accustomed to this type of demure place like some other people . . . I felt myself starting to hunch over more and more. But tonight’s dinner was in Rie’s honor, I kept telling myself to pull together.” Satomi encounters many situations where she feels like she doesn’t belong. In nearly every one she makes a comparison to how much different and better matters would be if she were still in Japan. Her whining grows sta .....
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The Killer Angels
.... of Gettys-burg is fought. The author provides many detailed maps of both army's positions.
Throughout the book, the reader is shown the pain, difficulty, anguish, and other dilemmas the armies face leading up to the final confrontation. In the beginning of the book we learn about the North from a spy for the South. His job was to scout the North's position as well count the number of troops. He reports to General Robert E. Lee and recalls what he saw. The spy's information proved useful to the Confederates' at the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg. The fight at Gettysburg is a series of battles. At first the South gains grou .....
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Shaping A Nation
.... to divide this nation. Lincoln pulled these two sides together and helped them unite. He abolished slavery with the thirteenth amendment and managed to keep the southern states from seceding from the Union.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president that brought the United States out of the great depression and positioned it as a superpower. His most significant contribution was introducing the New Deal. He also was the president to create social security. Roosevelt helped the Allies in World War II with the Lend-Lease Act, which allowed Britain to place orders on supplies and weapons without paying money. Roosevelt was the .....
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The Great Gatsby: America's Era Of Disdain
.... he masked his counterfeit wealth from bootlegging with an image he wore with the help of Dan Cody. He was the man that gave Gatsby the opportunity. After Cody’s death Gatsby “was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man”, and in this he based his rising. So begin his incessant parties of frantic careless “gaiety”.
Of course this was all a carnival to attract the “vast vulgar and meretricious beauty” which was the solemn reason of Gatsby's turmoilent rising. The green light represented the ideal criterion of society. Daisy was Gatsbys dream. .....
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Theocracy And Guilt And Punishment In The Scarlet Letter
.... the minds and lives of its people. This concept of theocratic domination is presented in the novel in several different forms. It is shown in the actions of town officials, enforcing the laws of the bible and punishing those who go against biblical law. This is shown when they punish Hester Pryne for committing the sin of adultery. Theocratic Domination is also presented by how the thoughts and thinking patterns of characters are affected by the laws and ideals of the society. This is shown in Dimmesdale and how he punishes himself for his sin of adultery because society tells him that this is an evil and unacceptable ac .....
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Jane Eyre
.... idea; it was involuntary), I was thinking of Hercules and Samson with their charmers" (p.289). This statement possibly begins to suggests Janes unsatisfaction with Rochester's position of complete dominance in their relationship. To Jane, Rochester embodies the idea of love which she has so long been denied of. As I stated earlier, the whole movie is about Janes journey towards acceptance, by herself and by others. It is this journey which persuades her to move on when she finds Rochester's physical and material love unacceptable.
Jane's next stop on her journey is Moor House. Here, she meets St. John Rivers, her cousin. Unlike .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Escape From The Truth
.... getting together by saying he has a tumor in his brain. This is the type of lies Holden tells. One reason for this might be that he is trying to hide his true identity. He does not want people to know who he really is or that he was kicked out of his fourth school. Holden is always using fake names and tries speaking in a tone to persuade someone to think a cretin way. He does this when he talks to women. While he is talking to the psychiatrist he explains peoples reactions to his lies like they really believe him, when it is very possible that he is a horrible liar and they are looking at him with a “what are you talking .....
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A Rose For Emily: Emily’s Disbelief In The Truth
.... and Homer Barron. The narrator was representative of the pas mainly through their words and description of what was going on. Homer Barron along with the townspeople represented the “next generation, with its modern ideas” (p. 120) in the present.
Miss Emily was characterized as a “fallen monument” (p.119) one of great refinement, an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death and decay, as seen when she lets her home become “an eyesore among eyesores” (p. 119); this being an excellent metaphor of her home and Emily herself.
Her home was once grand and beautiful, as was she. “ .....
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