The Scarlet Letter: Hester And Her Daughter Are Isolated From Society
.... her(Hawthorne 78). This house was far enough
from civilization that Hester and Pearl did not have a friend in the world
besides each other.
Pearl, is a descendent both of sweet children who fashioned a play
maiden out of snow and of the friend's infants who stoned the gentle
boy(Van Doren 130). Pearl causes several disturbances to Hester throughout
the novel. Governor Belligham plans to take away the child, if it was not
for Dimmesdale Pearl may have left her mother's arms(Hawthorne 109). All .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Use Of Romanticism In Development Of Characters
.... adultery creates a feeling of dismay and hostility within
the people of Boston. They are not only shocked that she has done such a
thing, but also because she won't reveal the name of the father of the
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 si .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester, What A Change!
.... insight into the complexities of human motivations and
actions. In The Scarlet Letter, he expressed one of the central legacies
of American Puritanism, using the plight of Hester Prynne and Arthur
Dimmesdale 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
colle .....
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The Scarlet Letter: Hester's Attitudes
.... these attitudes are not stable and are susceptible to change. Hester
moves to a cottage on the outskirts of Boston, but because her sentence
does not restrict her to the limits of the Puritan 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 t .....
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden And Reznor
.... I
still feel," Reznor is accounting all the suffering that he has experienced.
He tries to explain that all the terrible things that have happened to him,
all the terrible things he has seen, with 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 th .....
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Hololiterature: A Holographic Interpretation Of The Scarlet Letter
.... interference patterns of light. The third major
requirement is utter stability and freedom from vibrations. As for
producing an actual hologram, here is described a two-beam transmission
holograph. (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 .....
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Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" And Desai's "Clear Light Of Day": Tension And Conflict Between Traditional And Modern Views
.... on,
including ritual killing and banishment of one of the village leaders. But
then things begin to change more rapidly with the coming of the
missionaries. When they gave them the "evil forest" 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
we .....
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How Huck Uses His Creativity, Luck, And Wits To Get Rid Of The Pits
.... him,
except to make his corpse rise. First, he collected all the supplies that
he could find and loaded them into a canoe. After that, he went into the
woods and caught a wild hog. He brought the hog 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
fi .....
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How The Main Characters In "Crime And Punishment" And "One Day In The Life
.... sufferings.
In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the main character, Shukov, is
coping with a tremendous amount pain. "But try and spend eight years in a ‘
special'- doing hard labour. 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 .....
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Huck Finn Is A Very Troubled Young Boy
.... river on the raft. Huck while off on a
little excursion in his canoe runs into two men running away from some
angry villagers and their dogs. When they plead and beg for Huck to save
him and he finally 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 .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck's Contradiction
.... in the door-I beat it and hacked it considerable,
a-doing it. I fetched the pig.and laid him down on the ground to bleed.
Well, last I pulled out some of my hair, and bloodied the ax good, and
stuck 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, a .....
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Huck Finn's Conflict With Society
.... they cannot remember the cause. They kill each
other in duels for no reason, but say that it was in the name of honor.
All of this hypocrisy makes Huck want to rebel against this society.
Hypocrisy 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 instructio .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Huck Decides To Reject Civilization
.... his troubles at home down the Mississippi River. The
river is where he found his sanctuary. Jim and Huck were always safe,
independent, and free out on the raft. It seemed that every time they
would 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 .....
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Huckleberry Finn's Struggles With Conscience
.... is the widow's sister,
Miss Watson, who lives with them and was trying to teach Huck spelling.
From Huck's standpoint, “Miss Watson she kept on pecking at me, and it got
tiresome lonesome” (5). Huck's immaturity is obvious as he expresses his
dislike of how Miss Watson wanted him to sit up straight and stop fidgeting.
Huck's immaturity is clear in the beginning of the book.
All of Huck's discipline leaves his life as the book progresses,
and Huck's father shows up to take him to live in a cabin in th .....
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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn: Themes Related To Society Today
.... various devices to
ascertain if her suspicions are true. Among these is threading a needle
and throwing a bar of lead at the rats which swarm around the house.
Finally she makes Huck own up that he is a boy. In any case, this is a
great example of a young boy lying until his nose is a foot long. Lying is
prevalent among today's children as well.
Racism has an obvious connection to today's society. In the novel
Huck says many "racist" comments. In this scene Aunt Sally hears of a
steamboat expl .....
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