Scarlet Letter 2
.... the values of a marriage. It would be
most improper to have one who has committed as sin as she had to be
involved in the marital bonds of another couple. Nevertheless, she does her
work dutifully and completely.
She is emotionately worn out by all the work and penance for her sin.
Midway through the novel she no longer appears as a hidden beauty. Hester
now wears her hair in a cap, and the only effort of considerable worth is
that which she expends in her teachings to Pearl. .....
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Scarlet Letter 3
.... his emotions. The thought of Hester and Dimmesdale in an intimate conversation in the confines of the society in which they live is incomprehensible. Yet here, in the forest, they throw away all reluctance and act as themselves under the umbrella of security which exists there in the forest.
In Puritan society, people stress self reliance, among many other things. However, the people more than stress self reliance- they assume it. The Puritan people assume that you need only yourself and God, and .....
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Scarlet Letter Essay
.... it is used again when Arthur stands up on the platform of the scaffold giving false penance, which drives him further into isolation. Then at the end of the story it is used again to reunite Arthur with himself, the community and God before dies. It is also used in this scene to reunite Pearl with herself making her normal. He also used the cottage where Hester lived has a place of isolation for her. The cottage was just out side the sphere of the community. It was also on a sterile piece of land wh .....
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Shirley Jackson The Lottery An
.... of resistance to everything the lottery represents. When her family name is called, she pushes her husband, "Get up there, Bill." (561) In doing so, she acts rebelliously, ironically contradicting custom by reversing the accepted power relation between husbands and wives. In her name Hutchinson, Jackson alludes to the religious reformer Anne Hutchinson, who, because she was a woman preacher, was considered a threat to society and strict Puritan laws. She was banished from her society, as Tessie is stoned .....
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Siddhartha
.... obtain. He learns all that he knows about spirituality and peace from the river. At the end Vasadava leaves into the woods to die in peace.
Kamaswami- Kamaswami is the rich merchant that employees Siddhartha at one time. He is driven only by money and greed. Not much is said of Kamaswami except that he loses his star merchant Siddhartha.
Kamala- Kamala is the prostitute that teaches Siddhartha of physical love. She is driven by money, but is also very spiritual. When Siddhartha leaves her she c .....
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Silas Marner
.... gold. He shut out the rest of the world and any love he had for anything with it. “His life had reduced itself to the functions of weaving and hoarding” (602). In this life with only gold, and without love, Silas was an unhappy and lonely man. Later in his life when he is happy, he recalls counting his gold every night and “how his soul was utterly desolate”(710). He remains in this bleak position for fifteen years until his gold is lost and replaced with something to love.
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Slaughterhouse Five
.... He begins the book by stating, “All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true...I’ve changed all of the names.” Viewing war as a senseless act, Slaughterhouse-Five allows Vonnegut to express his feelings on the matter. Through Billy Pilgrim, he is able to indicate his views. Many things which he viewed as senseless acts were very violent. “[The two scouts] had been lying in ambush for the Germans. They had been discovered and shot from behind .....
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Social Reform In Charles Dicke
.... period of time, Oliver is chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner. After making this simple request, “the master aimed a blow at Oliver’s head with a ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle” (16, ch. 2). This pain and neglect caused a change in Oliver. He realized that he must rebel against the society that wishes to oppress him, in order to truly start living. In Great Expectations, Pip receives a great deal of abuse at .....
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Stanley And Livingstone And Th
.... River. When Dr. Livingstone had first traveled the Zambesi and made his trans-continental journey he had missed Kebrasa Rapids, which made the river impassable beyond this point. The Zambesi was too shallow for the main boat of the expedition and once they reached the Rapids the river was completely impassable without going round them to travel unless by land. The mission was a failure from the start and very disappointing. The last mission Livingstone went on was an attempt to find out whether the .....
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Stranger Than Fiction Brave Ne
.... its citizens, if a person is not promiscuous they are seen as outcasts. The more partners a person has the more popular the person is. A person is discouraged from having along term relationship with one person. If they have a long term relationship their loyalty to the government and Ford is in question.
And you know how strongly the DHC objects to anything intense or long and drawn out. Four months of Henry Foster without having another man - why, he’d be furious if he knew...
Sex .....
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Symbolism In The Old Man And T
.... They were intentionally putting down the old man and his accomplishments especially when one of the fishers said to Manolin “What a fish it was. There has never been such a fish. Those were two fine fish you took yesterday too.” Which Manolin did not like because he knew that it was the old man’s day to shine and not his. In ways the fisherman were like the people that had to choose between setting Jesus free or a murder free and they chose the murder because they did not underst .....
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Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
.... is a symbol of
darkness. Ironically, even through the forest is also a symbol of the unknown, it is there that Hester reveals to Dimmesdale that Chillingworth is indeed her husband. Thus, in some instances, the forest is a symbol of revelation or truth.
The weather in the novel also serves as a prominent symbol. The atmospheric conditions have an uncanny way of conforming to the mood of the novel. The first reference to weather in the novel occurs when the grim beadle is shouting at the crowd to .....
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Sympathy For Macbeth
.... They were intentionally putting down the old man and his accomplishments especially when one of the fishers said to Manolin “What a fish it was. There has never been such a fish. Those were two fine fish you took yesterday too.” Which Manolin did not like because he knew that it was the old man’s day to shine and not his. In ways the fisherman were like the people that had to choose between setting Jesus free or a murder free and they chose the murder because they did not underst .....
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Seeing Futher Through Tears Th
.... my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play umpire. . ." (Lines 53-55, 63-64, Scene 1, Act 4).
Romeo's inclination to fall in love easily was first shown in his love for Rosaline. It was illustrated perfectly when he first met Juliet. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight. For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night". (Lines 50-51, Scene 5, Act 1) He say this but he seemed to have forgotten Rosaline like old news, even though he speaks of Juliet as he spoke of Rosaline only a few short .....
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Sins In The Scarlet Letter
.... great anger towards her and took upon himself some of the accountability saying it was “...my folly and thy weakness,” (Pg.52) which was the cause of Hester's sin. Chillingworth's only feeling was one of revenge towards the man who had been Hester's lover. Chillingworth was obsessed by hate and revenge so much that when Dimmesdale died “... the life seemed to have departed...” (Pg.72) from him and he died within a year of Dimmesdale's death. Chillingworth never felt guilt or atte .....
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