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- 4071: Scarlet Letter- Hester Prynne
- ... Herzog stated that The Scarlet Letter is a story set at the rough edge of civilization. Hester is as much an outcast as any Quaker in the Puritan colony and she takes the colony's abuse laid upon her with a Quaker's dignity. Herzog described Hester's Aboriginal characteristics as caring and conservative. This aspect of Hester's femininity is not the only trait, however, which separates her from the ...
- 4072: Scarlet Letter Essay
- ... certified that doom when she committed adultery, and finalized that doom when she concealed Chillingsworth s identity from Dimmesdale. The effects these events had were the separation from her society, her lover, her husband, her child, and her own best self. She did it all in the name of sanctity, for true love, and she paid the price. Dimmesdale was changed by the affair in a way that [he] grew emaciated ...
- 4073: Sins In The Scarlet Letter
- ... alive. After enduring two years of tortured loneliness and lost love, Hester wished to feel the warmth of love again. She tried to fill this emptiness by making love with the Reverend Dimmesdale. When her child Pearl was born, Hester's adulterous sin was discovered and she was cast out from their society and required to wear an embroidered A on her bosom in punishment. Hester felt guilt for her sin ...
- 4074: Seeing Futher Through Tears Th
- ... a result of their naivety. Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. "My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the charge of fourteen years. . ." (Lines 8-9, Scene 2, Act 1). It is also shown during the balcony scene when she agrees to ...
- 4075: Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
- ... by telling Pearl that she has to catch her own sunlight because she has none to give her. This illustrates the obvious lack of happiness in Hester s life and her inability to make her child happy. The most profound use of weather as symbolism occurs in the forest. When Hester and Pearl first enter the woods, the sky is overcast and dark save for sporadic gleams of light that shine ...
- 4076: Romeo And Juliet- A Thin Line
- ... has been with a person through thick and thin is not a common commodity. However, when do such friends become obsolete? Maturing inspires a transition in each person's life. Such a transition from a child's young, same sex adoration to the infatuation of the opposite gender is a main observation in this play. The tragedy not only about love, but about growing up making the conscious choice between a ...
- 4077: Red Badge Of Courage 4
- ... war, there are men, not man: there are no individuals: they are all united"(Babusci 578). This experience had supplied Henry with loyalty and anguish and with honor and despair. Nevertheless, Henry was purely a child and repeatedly referred to as "the youth"; also, Henry could not embrace the decease of someone as close as Jim became. At length, Henry was without a father, and all he had remaining in the ...
- 4078: Ragged Dick
- ... as Ragged Dick, as he progresses though his childhood. Ragged Dick is a typical Rags to Riches story where Dick struggles through the hardships of city life, trying to achieve the American Dream . As a child, Dick is nothing more than a poor city boy who is trying to earn money on the streets of New York City. He spends his time shining shoes for working men, making only about ten ...
- 4079: Political Criticism On The Eng
- ... in face of the war, Ondaatje, an East Asian, glorifies Kip (an East Indian), as the ideal male while chastening the Caucasian race. Born in a family of tradition and values, Kirpal was the second child. The family customs dictated the first son to join the army, while the second would become a doctor and the third, a businessman (Ondaatje,1992). "He was the second son. The oldest son would go ...
- 4080: Plight Of The Wingfields (the
- ... were desperate to reach out to another person (134). This statement supports the idea that Williams incorporates something crippled into all his major characters. In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams portrays a crippling mother and child relationship comprising fundamental themes of dysfunctionalism. He poignantly illustrates that none of the characters are capable of living in the present. They believe their functionality and life s happiness lies in their repeated quests for ...
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