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- 3381: True Sinners
- ... Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Sin strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale, and turns Chillingworth into the villain. Hester Prynne's sin was adultery. This sin was regarded very seriously by the Puritans, and was often punished by death. Hester's punishment was to endure a public shaming on a scaffold for three hours and wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest for the rest of her life in the town. Although Hawthorne ... have held fast, and did hold fast, through all extremity save when thy good--the life--they fame--were put in question! Then I consented a deception. But a lie is never good, even though death threaten the other side!" Even though Hester's sin is the one the book is titled after and centered around, it is not nearly the worst sin committed. Hester learns from her sin, and grows ... himself. It is he who surrendered his human sympathies in his quest for revenge. Chillingworth's worst sin is violating the sanctity of the human heart. He suffers the most, dying shortly after Dimmesdale's death. His vengeance was all that was driving him forward. It was his sole purpose for living. All his strength and energy all his vital and intellectual force--seemed at once to desert him insomuch ...
- 3382: Madame Bovary: Destiny
- ... brings happiness for a time and then it only brings misery. Her affair with Leon is the cause of many of her later problems, such as her debt, her sickness, her depression and her eventual death. Death. This brings us to the final fork in the road of Emma's life. She chooses to take the Arsenic as she feels overwhelmed and sees this as the best solution for all her problems. Why does she take the Arsenic when she is still young and still has her entire life ahead of her? One could argue that she saw no way out and she saw death as the only answer. But is this not selfish when there is a little girl that she must raise and nurture and a husband who needs her? Emma tries to hid away from her ...
- 3383: The Life of John F. Kennedy
- ... people could no longer purchase guns through mail order and that no one could have a gun under age. This was an attempt to lessen senseless acts of violence. As you can see, the tragic death of Robert Kennedy was an act of violence that was spurred through hatred and jealousy. When you separate fact from fiction, you realize that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was simply a person who could not handle ... his actions, a country lost a great person who could have made a difference. The life of Robert Kennedy tragically ended and continous to leave an impact on the political scene. The effects of his death will always be felt and many people are still affected by this senseless death.
- 3384: William Wordsworth Biography
- ... to visit Annette and his daughter, and later that year, he married Mary Hutchinson, with whom he had five children with by 1810. The years from 1805-1812 were marked with hardship, beginning with the death of his brother, John. In 1810, he poet became estranged from Coleridge, and in 1812, two of his children, Catherine and Thomas, died. The Wordsworths moved on several occasions throughout this timespan, before eventually settling ... Helvellyn, one of the highest mountain peaks in England, at the age of 70. After several painful illnesses, Dorothy slipped permanently into dotage from a condition similar to Alzheimer's in 1835. Upon Southey's death in 1843, Wordsworth became appointed as Poet Laureate. Following this, a series of deaths of both close friends and family members culminated in the death of the daughter he had always adored, Dora, in 1847, and it seemed as though he was now awaiting his own demise. A case of pleurisy worsened after a walk in the cold March ...
- 3385: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... beloved wifey died January thirtieth, 1847, when she was but twenty-five. I was somewhat relieved because the stress of her illness was so great, yet the loss I suffered was much greater. After her death I found myself wanting someone to love and someone who would take care of me. This began my search for a new wife. I looked to many women such as Mrs. Nancy Annie Richmond, Miss ... 1849 died at five o’clock in the morning. I had a simple funeral with very few attending. My family and loved ones were not even notified until a couple of days later. After my death the stories of what really happened were changed drastically over the years, so that the thin line between fact and fiction soon disappeared completely. Even after I was dead those who had made my name a tainted one still made it displeasing. Ellet and a fellow editor from past years published a counterfeit book of memoirs of my life, death and writings. Later, in the 1870s a Baltimore schoolteacher began a campaign to raise money for a monument on my grave. They also reburied Virginia’s bones alongside mine. My life was a great ...
- 3386: Ancient Greek Olympics
- ... him and kissed him. That gave her away, but she wasn't punished. Several years earlier her father, Diagoras, won a boxing match. He was one of the most celebrated of all ancient athletes. Her penalty of death was waived. The glory of the Games began to dim, and interest was lost among most people. Rich people began placing bets on the games. The original purpose of the Games were forgotten. Olympia began ...
- 3387: Lord Jim
- ... the rest of his life in misery when he left the eight hundred passengers to die. The Patna incident caused a chain of self hatred and self loathing that would go on until Jim’s death. Jim’s ever churning soul made him very unhappy. Fighting constantly within himself made Jim experience extreme guilt and anguish. The way Jim struggled on the inside caused Jim to seem lack luster and lazy ... When something does go wrong Jim over exerts himself into making it right. This feeling that he always has something he needs to set right is one of the main things that leads to his death. If Jim did not feel that he owed society something in a sense he would have never tried so hard to set things right with the tribe in the end. Jim had felt that he ... lost his honor leaving him a broken man. If Jim felt he had his honor he would have not felt the need to die for tribe member that was murdered. Thus, dying a very noble death and showing through it all he did in fact have his honor. This in part is the main irony of Lord Jim. The irony of this book is that Jim felt disgraced and wretched. ...
- 3388: The Question of an Answer: What It Is To Be Human
- ... make the mistake? The truths in dualism have allowed it to make its way into much of our culture. In society today, it is very hard to escape dualistic thinking. Take the Christian view of death and afterlife for example. "Does not death mean that the body comes to exist by itself, separated from the soul, and that the soul exists by herself, separated from the body? What is death but that?" (Plato 1995, 68) Of all the type of dualism, value dualism is the most evident form found all around us. For example, here at The University of the Pacific, the course of ...
- 3389: Two Brands of Nihilism
- ... dead”. Nietzsche will contend, in the parable of the Madman that we have taken a step away from the stultifying belief in the trasencendent realm, but are far from behaving as if we acknowledged His death. The events for which God was invented have now all been explained by a science, “the holiest and mightiest...has bled to death under our knife”. But the crowd listening only stares on silently looking on surprised. The madman is too early, for the wielders of the blade have not measured the full implication of His death. There remains the “residue” of Christian faith that is still in need of overcoming. “Our greatest reproach against existence,” he writes, “was the existence of God”, and he believes, our greatest relief is found ...
- 3390: The Disproof (and proof) of Everything
- ... s fun now usually doesn't lead to things that are much fun later. For instance, if you kill someone, it may be fun, but I don't think one would find imprisonment or a death penalty fun at all. It may be fun to drop out of school and do whatever you want, but in a few years when you can't get a job and don't have enough money ...
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