The Flamboyant Hester Prynne
.... was described by Reynolds as a feminist criminal bound in an iron link of mutual crime (Reynolds 183). According to Reynolds, Hawthorne was trying to have his culture's darkest stereotypes absorbed into the character of Hester and rescue them from noisy politics by reinterpreting them in Puritan terms and fusing them with the moral exemplar.
Kristin Herzog had a somewhat different view of Hester in The Scarlet A, Aboriginal and Awesome. She described Hester as both wild and passionate, and caring, conserv .....
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The Scarlet Letter
.... 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 committing adultery, most
were killed if convicted, but it was not something that upset their way of
living in any permanent .....
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The Scarlet Letter Essay
.... marriage (for him no technicality), and by his own image of himself as a cleric devoted to higher things. Unlike other young men, Dimmesdale cannot accept his loss of innocence and go on from there. He must struggle futilely to get back to where he was. Torn between the desire to confess and atone the cowardice which holds him back, Dimmesdale goes slightly mad. He takes up some morbid forms of penance-fasts and scourgings-but he can neither whip nor starve the sin from his soul. In his agony, he staggers .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird- The Effect Of Environment On Classism
.... residents of Maycomb need only the possibly unfounded link between the individuals and their names as the justifier of their actions. The likelihood that their decision is founded on a different matter is not even considered. It seems that people are not given a chance. Scout dictates this as if it were wholly logical, evidence that she is indeed susceptible to the onslaught of classism she regularly faces. This point is strengthened as the story progresses to Scout¡¯s first day of school. At noon, Jem .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... innocent days. Further, he is repulsed by the banal
and meaningless language that is used by members of that society. As
he becomes alienated from his former, traditional, society, Baumer
simultaneously is able to communicate effectively only with his
military comrades. Since the novel is told from the first person point
of view, the reader can see how the words Baumer speaks are at
variance with his true feelings. In his preface to the novel, Remarque
maintains that "a generat .....
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A Separate Peace
.... Furthermore, Finny being a carefree person does not even care about his own grades, certainly not Gene's grades. Gene does not realize this, perhaps he simply does not want to admit the truth. He has created an enemy
o protect himself from acknowledging that he is not completely satisfied with his character, or lack of character and individuality.
Gene soon realizes that Finny is not trying to be his rival. However, this realization only makes Gene angrier with Finny. He is irritated at the notion tha .....
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All Quiet On The Western Front
.... the trenches. Some of the soldiers were shell-shocked because of the constant bombardment. When one of the boys was wounded, he was taken to a hospital where there were many wounded soldiers. Some soldiers had to have parts of their bodies amputated in order to survive. When Kemmerich was in the hospital, Müller ask for his pair of boots. The boots was a visible reminder to the boys of the cost of war. Paul then has to face his own conscience when he kills one of the Frenchmen. He doesn’t see the fac .....
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Amazing Grace A Book Report
.... with extreme determination, and often sacrificed her well being for the sake of others. She was a real role model for all those living in the ghetto.
There was not a clear cut solution presented in the book, nor is there just one way to solve these problems. It seemed like things were still working against pulling the ghetto out of its poverty. The new mayor of New York City, Rudolph Giuliani, had just cut more funding for AIDS programs, an epidemic which ran rampart in the ghetto, and for welfare, .....
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A Farewell To Arms Is A Classi
.... I could no think. I knew she was going to die and I prayed that she would not. Don’t let her die. Oh, God, please don’t let her die. I’ll do anything for you if you won’t let her die...” p.330. Hemingway
went on for an entire paragraph of him pleading with God. This is how he is able to show that Mr. Henry loves her more than anything, more than life its self. In a way, I think that they loved each other too much. They did not go out often or do anything that was wit .....
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Antigone 2
.... to bury the body creates fear in the reader. They are fearful as to what will happen to
Antigone if she is caught. As the play moves on there is a building of this fear and pity that is felt for many of the characters that finally is resolved at the catastrophe. At that point the reader learns that Creon, the king, has lost his wife, his son, and his niece Antigone, all because he was too stubborn to give in as well as to afraid that if he did give in that he would be judged as an easy king. In .....
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A Good Man Is Hard To Find Ana
.... evil. At one point the Misfit likens himself to Christ, in that they both were punished for crimes they did not commit. Christ accepted death for the sins of all people, however. The Misfit is in a constant battle against his fate that he sees himself being punished without any cause. Although he resists this Christ-like existence he has, he kills other innocent people not to save them, but because “it’s the only real pleasure in life.”
Near the end of the ordeal, the grandmother .....
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A Perfect Day For Bananafish
.... back
up to his room on the night of the suicide. His fixation upon his feet, which do not resemble the childlike feet that he desires to have, and the woman in the elevator’s scorn towards Seymour’s accusing her of staring at his feet, drive him to dislike the adult world even more. He is the bananafish who cannot escape the hole and achieve the spiritualism and childlike characteristics that he so desires. In his opinion, he believes that this suicide will give him the chance that .....
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Adolescence Depicted In The Od
.... rebellion would be more discreet.
We first meet Nausikaa in Book VI, in which Odysseus begins his stay in Phaiakia. Nausikaa is a princess, and it is most likely that she was sheltered as she grew up by her parents. In most cases, children of noble descent are discouraged from mingling with the common folk, discouraged from doing risky or dangerous things, manual labor, etc. Athena comes to Nausikaa and tells her to go to the washing in the morning so that she may meet Odysseus. Athena does not need to .....
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Antigone 4
.... his promise to the people, it seems as if he is completey blinded by his love for power. Creon absolutely isolates himself from the rest of the world and believes himself as being right all the time despite the circumstances. He strongly believes in a powerful kingdom and feels that everyone should dwell by his rules as a king. This reveals him to be a self centered noble who thinks quite highly of himself. Creon later regrets what he has done to his innocent niece. However, this sudden change of heart .....
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An Economic Intrepration Of Th
.... be broken. The ability to follow cruel traditions without any remorse for the damage that has been done has a type of cult mentality. The economic well-being for this town is important, but is it important enough to follow a 100 year old tradition which, logically, does not help the crop condition one bit? Nobody has the answers to everything, but if tradition works, it keeps people from looking outside of their tradition for possible alternative solutions. The actions of many people in our world are d .....
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