Heart Of Darkness: Themes In Garden Of Evil And Heart Of Darkness
.... for his self being.
Independent Novel Study-Style
1. Irony-Occurs when a set of circumstances turn out very differently from
what was expected..
Foreshadowing-Gives the reader a hint to what will happen later in the
story.
Flashback-When they look bac at what they have done before.
Point of View-The point the story is told from.
Imagery-When a sentence or passage gives a good picture as to what is
going on.
Archetype-Struggle, Mans struggle for inner innocence.
Allegory-A story that has a main theme and a hidden moral.
Satire-To make fun of a situation.
Diction-refers to style of .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Scaffold
.... her path was set.
The second time at the scaffold was a turning point for Hester.
She, Pearl, and Dimmsdale are together for the first time, “...the three
formed an electric chain” as if they were always meant to be together if
something, or someone, had not gotten in their way (140). But it is here
that Hester finally realizes the damage which hiding Chillingworth's
identity has caused Dimmsdale. Chillingworth was “a secret
enemy...continually at his side, under the semblance of a friend and
helper...” when in truth he was tormenting Dimmsdale at every opportunity
(153). When Hester sees the miserable state that he is in, weak .....
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The Scarlet Letter: An Analysis Of Symbolism
.... for Hester has won the respect of the Puritans even if she has sinned
terribly.
Hawthorne uses the prison building to describe crime and punishment in
contrast with the tombstone at the end of the novel. This statement
suggests the crime and punishment will eventually lead to the death of the
malefactor.
One positive symbol is the rosebush outside the prison. I feel it
represents a sweet person hidden in the encasements of a dark prison, a
true diamond in the rough.
The symbol for Puritanism, according to one critic, is when Hawthorne
uses the beadle. I can see how the Puritans are compared to minor parish
offici .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Sin
.... was; he was embraced by it. However, his sin
didtake it's toll. He was disfigured horribly and became atwisted man,
scarred by sin. He also was robbed of thepleasure of destroying Dimmesdale
which was his reason forliving. He died shortly after Dimmesdale.
Hester Prynne, however, was the complete opposite of Chillingworth in
that her sin gave her life, not destroyed it. She took her punishment and
embraced it, using it to rebuild herself not as a pathetic sinner, but as a
pseudo-saint. At first, the town shunned her as a sinner. However,after
they saw that she was good, and her sin was of love,the same town embraced
and .....
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Summary Of The Scarlet Pimpernel
.... towards his wife, Sir Percy's adoration of
her was not shown anymore. However he continued on with his life of which
a part was left untold to his wife whom he could not trust. He never let
her know of the secretive life he led as the celebrated Scarlet Pimpernel.
Later on, Lady Blakeney was blackmailed into making a deal with a
French spy named Chauvelin. He had promised the return of her beloved
brother, Armand, from death in France if she promised to help in leading
him to the elusive man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel. It was a difficult
moral decision, but out of the love for her dear brother and not knowing
tha .....
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Review Of The Scarlet Letter
.... can
be seen in both lights. Either they can be perceived as just upholding the
law -she committed a crime, they enforce the law. On the other hand are
they going to extreme measures such as wanting to take Pearl, Hester's
daughter, away just because Hester has deviated from the norm, all to
enforce an unjust law that does not even apply to this situation?
Although the subjects of the novel do apply to important issues in
history and could have had influences on the time period, they were not
great. During the times and in the Puritan community this did not have a
large affect on anything. Sure, they did not want anyone .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Alienation
.... she feels she
does not deserve the gratification. Though sewing could be "soothing, the
passion of her life …Like all other joys, she rejected it as a
sin." Hester no longer feels worthy to wear the finery she is capable of
sewing for herself. All of the "gorgeously beautiful" things she has "a
taste for" are sold to others, they "found nothing… in…her life to
exercise [themselves] upon." Instead of applying her time towards "the
better efforts of her art", which she would enjoy, she employs in
"making coarse garments for the poor" in order to repent for her sin.
Hester's "own dress was of the coarsest materials and most s .....
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The Scarlet Ibis: Summary
.... turns around and finds Doodle under a tree with
blood in his mouth. His heart gave out from running too hard, and his
brother held him as he died.
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The Secret Sharer: A Summary
.... becoming a secret sharer, if the word secret
is taken for an adjective. This could be an image of a miser, who
generally does not share his wealth, but does so only in secrecy. A secret
sharer could also be an imaginary friend. It would be a person who is
secretive, and you share your thoughts with them. A Biblical
interpretation of the secret sharer could be that of the snake in the
garden of Eden. Since the snake shares the ultimate secret of knowledge
with Adam and Eve, it could be considered a secret sharer. The
connotations of the two main words in the title show a contradiction. A
secret has a mysterious somewhat .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Ways People Are Punished
.... People should pay for what they do and be
punished properly. For example, if a man rapes a woman he should be
castrated. This way people would have fear and not commit crimes.
Torture is also a better punishment rather then death. When a person
dies they don't pay for what they have done, they simply die. When they
live with pain, they pay for it. For example, a person whose havds were
cut off for stealing something would suffer much more that a person who was
quickly killed. The only upside of being sent to prison is that people are
tortured there. Many of the men who are sent there are raped by other men.
The re .....
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Comparison Of Margaret Mead's "Coming In Age" To Russian Youth
.... Often society depicts these groups as dangerous, deviant and
delinquent. These groups, however, just show many of the valued structures
of society, but in a more radical way. They have a standard code of dress,
values, ethics and rebel in order to force their ideas onto the public and
to feel part of a recognizable group.
Margaret Mead noticed little individual differences among the Samoans.
"We have seen that the Samoans have a low level of appreciation of
personality differences" (Mead, 1973, 161). The Samoan's strong cultural
and family traditional values do not allow for individualism. In comparison,
Soviet y .....
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The Scarlet Letter: The Plot
.... jail cell.
"Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false
and unnatural relation with my decay."
His second sin is allowing himself to become obsessed with
vengeance against Dimmesdale].
"But, as he proceeded, a terrible fascination, a kind of fierce,
though still calm, necessity seized the old man within its gripe, and never
set him free again until he had done all its bidding. He now dug into the
poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a
sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been
buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to .....
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