Sappho (the Greek Poet)
.... into nine books around the third century B.C. Unfortunately, her work was deemed obscene by the Church, and most of it was burned. Most of them were lost, and Sappho was known only through quotations in other ancient writers until 1900, when considerable fragments of her work began to be found on papyrus in Egypt and so only a few hundred lines of her poetry remain. In her lifetime, she invented a 21-string lyre which she used to accompany herself when she sang her poems. She also founded a "thiasos" .....
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Sarah Canary
.... Lucianas’.
Lilian Heker used symbolism and a party to show her feelings about the social class system. Although the first time reading this story it does not seem like anything is really going on, if you read it a second time you begin to see the hidden meanings behind the party and what symbolism was used. If she had not used those elements to explain her feelings it would have made for a very boring story.
Works Cited
Heker, Lilian “The Stolen Party.” Literature for Co .....
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Satire Or Tragedy - Macbeth
.... to Aristotle, a tragedy must have six parts: plot,
character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song. Most important is
the plot, the structure of the incidents. Tragedy is not an imitation
of men, but of action and life. It is by men's actions that they
acquire happiness or sadness. Aristotle stated, in response to Plato,
that tragedy produces a healthful effect on the human character
through a katharsis, a "proper purgation" of "pity and terror." A
successful tragedy, then, exploits a .....
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Satirizing America The Purpose
.... and locked up in a shed for running away. One subtle part of the irony is that the cruelest person to Jim was not the Phelps’, who locked him in the shed, nor the king, who sold Jim to the Phelps. Instead the most cruel person happens to be Tom Sawyer. Tom needlessly put Jim through arduous conditions: first, for knowing that Jim was already a free man, and secondly, such measures were not necessary for the simple task of freeing Jim. Accordingly, they actually allowed Jim out to help them push .....
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Say Yes
.... female having something in her mouth and tossing it and growling is similar to what the couple is doing. They play fight together and growl a lot but in the end they trot off together happily. The symbolism used provides an added insight into the various stages of the story.
Making up and the resulting romance later on that night were the couple's inevitable reason behind their argument. The husband cleaned the kitchen which resulted in it looking new, "the way it looked when they were first shown t .....
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Scarlet Letter
.... not get better as a character until he opened up to Hester in the forest by confessing his love for her.
Themes are an excellent method for tying in a complex story’s plot. Hawthorne executes this with perfection, which is shown by how well the characters written compare to each other. With this knowledge we can better understand how Hawthorne wanted these characters to be viewed and interpreted.
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Scarlet Letter (character Deve
.... is a good person but is also somewhat devious because he changes his name. Mr. Chillingworth’s good side is seen as he takes care of Pearl and Hester with only good intentions even though Hester has partly wronged him (p62). As the book progresses he becomes close to reverend Dimmesdale and is issued to take care of him due to his sickly state. Because of the time he spends with Dimmesdale he finds out Dimmesdale’s secret and how to play him psychologically. Chillingworth’s lust for .....
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Scarlet Letter 2
.... Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one.” (Hawthorne, Letter 116). In The Ambitious Guest the forest surrounds the lonely family. They want to get out of the forest and get to know people. The forest is evil in a way, keeping the family from the outside world. “They dwelt in a cold spot and a dangerous one…” (Hawthorne, Guest 1).
In The Scarlet Letter Hester is plagued with solitude. Since she has the “A” on her chest she is isolated from the rest of the .....
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Scarlet Letter 2 --
.... righteous in admitting their crime rather than carrying the guilt around for the rest of his life. Being unprincipled, Dimmesdale does the exact opposite of his own advice. As a minister of the Puritan church, Dimmesdale holds a very high position in society where everyone looks up to him as a role model. He feels very guilty in his heart knowing that he has committed a sin. People identify him as a guiltless and holy man. When people have that kind of a view for him, Dimmesdale feels even more pressu .....
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Scarlet Letter 4
.... done by God is more austere then man.
Another example of man punishing sin is Roger Chillingworth. He tries to handle God's job of punishing the sinners into his own hands. Revenge for Dimmesdale turns into the reason why he lives:
"I shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books; as I have
sought goldin alchemy. There is a sympathy that will make me
conscience of him. I shall see him tremble. I shall myself feel
shudder, suddenly and unawares. Sooner or later, he must needs
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Scarlet Letter 4 =
.... of life] had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow, and the untempered light” (77). She is beautiful, just as the embroidered letter is, yet she brings her mother much pain. Prynne is the “woman of the scarlet letter” and Pearl is the “likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side” (87) and within Pearl’s personality are the mixed emotions that are contained within the letter—defiance, gloom, shame, and anger. S .....
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Scarlet Letter 8
.... his daughter. After several failures to be honest, the minister was certain that “it must be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, than to cover it up in his heart.” He remained silent and the black secret slowly ate away at his soul, transforming him from a young, lively minister to a coward.
Hester suffered greatly from the community's knowledge of Pearl as an “elfish child,”(162) but she endured far less agony than Dimmesdale, who became seriously ill, because .....
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Scarlet Letter And Ministers B
.... a kid the minister didn’t.
In every difference you find a likeness as seen in the characters of the stories. Obviously both have sinned and both cover this sin up with cloth. They both sorta frightening the rest of the town which is interesting because only one becomes outkasted. But both of them lose relationships. Hester loses her husband, the minister loses his fiancée.
The conclusion is no matter how much difference you see between two things there is also a lot of likeness. Just two .....
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Scarlet Letter Chapter Summari
.... of this tale of human weakness and sorrow.
Comment
The first sentence of the romance introduces a major character, that is, the community. The predominant mood of the tale is established by the words "sad-colored" and "grey." The word "hoods" suggests the secrecy and hyprocrisy of a leading male character, Arthur Dimmesdale; in contrast, "bareheaded" represents the open repentance of Hester, the main female character who wears the scarlet letter. The setting is Puritan Boston, near .....
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Scarlet Letter Critique
.... to Hester’s breast. This occurs over in over throughout the classic novel. The “A” that stood for adultery she had to wear day and night, and it serves as one of the most important symbols in the book. The shame and condemn that came along with letter she is reminded of at all times by the Puritans. Every time that the letter showed up it was a reminder that the Puritans were actually mean, unforgiving, and sinful people that were stubborn although they claimed to follow the word o .....
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