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- 17661: The Scarlet Letter - Intoleran
- ... continue their lives conforming to whatever society excpects from them. While at the same time Hester lives in isolation and gains a true sight of the community. She sees their lives objectively and gains a new insight into their pain and grievances. While the Scarlet letter is meant as a punishment, without it Hester would never know this detachment that lets her see the truth of the Puritan people. She could ...
- 17662: The Scarlet Letter - Dimmesdal
- ... restrain. While self-restraint gives Dimmesdale strength, it is also his biggest flaw. Overall, Dimmesdale is a good person. He is just lacking the ability to be courageous enough to admit his sin to the world. Although he was strong, it ended up being his demise.
- 17663: The Missing Dialogue in Antigone
- ... Haimon, Sophocles is able to present his political issues in a clear manner. Works Cited Sophocles. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. trans. Fitts, Dudley and Fitzgerald, Robert. Harcourt Brace and Company: New York, 1949. . A
- 17664: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
- Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest While some critics contend that The Importance of Being Earnest is completely fanciful and has no relation to the real world, others maintain that Oscar Wilde's "trivial comedy for serious people" does make significant comments about social class and the institution of marriage. These observations include the prevalent utilization of deceit in everyday affairs. Indeed ...
- 17665: The Scarlet Letter - Individua
- ... Puritans threw her out of their lives because she was not a drone to their ways, but a distinctive person. Fear was the motivation that drove the Puritans to exclude Hester Prynne from society. This new society was afraid that their community would fall apart "in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished" (68) if they did not seek out those individuals that were immoral in their eyes. Their ...
- 17666: Superstition in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- ... truth. The Salem witch trials were horrifying and it changes many peoples lives. The belief in witches did not end with the strange excitement. This strange episode in the history of Massachusetts astonished the civilized world, and made an unfavorable impression on others. WORK CITED Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Ellen Bowler. ed. et al. Literature the American Experiance. Englewood cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994.
- 17667: The Crucible: Hysteria and Injustice
- ... for the hysteria that comes from the combined fears of ignorant people. We should also realize that being an individual has bad effects sometimes and even though we might be right we have to be brave when fighting society because we will not always win. VI. Conclusion: I'm glad I read this play. Even though I've been told to think for myself, I never saw such a good example ...
- 17668: The Remains Of The Day - Digni
- ... novel, dignity is exoterically found in the form of proper gentlemen, as well as butlers who allow nothing to distract or faze them from doing their duty. What about the everyday definition in the modern world. This dignity today is rarely encountered other than in the higher levels of old fashioned society, politics and perhaps serious business matters. With all our upbringing, culture and modernisation, few have retained what was known ...
- 17669: Johnny Got His Gun Book Report
- Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN is a controversial anti-war story of a soldier who lost his arms, his legs, and most of his face in a World War I from a shell. Trumbo's soldier is Joe Bonham who comes from a patriotic background. The boy works in a bakery, supports his mother and sisters after his father's death, he is ...
- 17670: The Crucible: John Proctor and John Hale - Good Citizen vs. Good Person
- ... the narrator of this play. Nor did he believe in all the Puritan beliefs and laws. He didn't believe that witchcraft was invading the community, I have wondered if there be witches in the world - although I cannot believe they come among us now (p.69). This is considered heresy towards the beliefs of the Puritan religious authority, and the Reverend Hale points that out to Proctor. Proctor did not ...
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