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- 11831: The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic?
- The Scarlet Letter: Arthur - Tragic Hero or Merely Tragic? In Nathaniel Hawthorne's torrid tale of The Scarlet Letter, Arthur Dimmesdale, a main character, is confronted with a number of circumstances, both in and out of his control, that lead to his ultimate demise. While it can be ... knew--subtle but remorseful hypocrite that he was!--the light in which his vague confession would be viewed." (127) They love him all the more for his honest and humble character, and this is Arthur's intent. Even as he plans to run away with Hester four days after their meeting in the forest, he comforts himself with the knowledge that he will give his sermon on predestination on the third day, and thus will leave his community with fond memories of his final exhortation. Arthur's flaw can be found in the fact that he chooses to value the public view above those of Hester, his love, and God, his master. Arthur, punishing himself for his ugly secret, which his ...
- 11832: The Lord Of The Flies
- ... becoming "fragile and white"(171), its power diminishes until it is finally crushed. With the intentional smashing of the conch, all order on the island is effectively lost. The Lord of the Flies, a pig's head on a pike, one symbol in the novel for evil, or Satan. To Jack it was meant as a sacrifice to the "beast" which controlled the boys through fear. When Simon talked with the Lord of the Flies he learned what true evil was, it's "part of you, close, close, close!" The enlightened Simon never got the chance to explain to the others that the beast was within all of them and could be beaten, because he had angered the Lord of the Flies by not being scared. When Simon returned to the group, they killed him when a chant got out of hand. Allowing evil to continue to take over the island. Piggy's eyeglasses are directly connected with another symbol, the fire. They are related by the fact that the glasses were used time and again to light fires, rescue or otherwise. The decaying state of the ...
- 11833: Editorial Essay
- ... cancer, and you could get arrested if you are under age. When you smoke a lot you could be a victim of lung cancer. When you get lung cancer you usally die. If you don't die you have to use a respirator to help you breath, and I doubt you want to carry a big respirator around with you all the time. Lung cancer has to be the worst thing that could happen to you when you smoke. If you don't inhale you could be a victim of mouth cancer. Mouth cancer is almost as worse as lung cancer, because you won't be able to talk straight and you will have to have surgery on your mouth to get rid of it. If you don't get surgery than you could also die. Mouth cancer isn' ...
- 11834: Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It?
- Fate: Would Homer and Virgil Be The Same Without It? In Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Iliad, a picture of the supernatural and its workings was created. In both works, there is a concept of a fixed order of events which is called fate. Fate involves two parts. First, there are ... Homer and Virgil allude to the existence of unchangeable laws, one of which is the mortality of human beings. This can be seen by the fact that character after character dies during war. In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas journeys to Hades to visit his father. During his stay, he talks to a large number of the warriors that have died in the Trojan War. The death of these warriors shows ...
- 11835: Our Man Lemuel
- Our Man Lemuel By the end of Book II in Gulliver's Travels, it is very clear that the character of Gulliver is not the same man who wrote the letter in the beginning of the story. In fact, he is not the same man he was in Book I. From the onset of Gulliver's Travels, Swift creates for us a seemingly competent character and narrator in Gulliver. In his account we learn how his adventures have changed him and his perception of people, for the central theme of this story is how human nature and reason reflect society. On the whole, Gulliver is a very frustrating character to deal with for a number of reasons. For example, he's not steady; this unsteadiness as a narrator leads us to question the validity of what Gulliver tells us. This means that we have to be on our guard against what he says, and even ...
- 11836: Marco Polo
- Marco Polo Marco Polo is one of the most well-known heroic travelers and traders around the world. In my paper I will discuss with you Marco Polo's life, his travels, and his visit to China to see the great Khan. Marco Polo was born in c.1254 in Venice. He was a Venetian explorer and merchant whose account of his travels in Asia was the primary source for the European image of the Far East until the late 19th century. Marco's father, Niccolù, and his uncle Maffeo had traveled to China (1260-69) as merchants. When they left (1271) Venice to return to China, they were accompanied by 17-year-old Marco and two priests. Early ... the personal life of Marco Polo. It is known that he was born into a leading Venetian family of merchants. He also lived during a propitious time in world history, when the height of Venice's influence as a city-state coincided with the greatest extent of Mongol conquest of Asia(Li Man Kin 9). Ruled by Kublai Khan, the Mongol Empire stretched all the way from China to Russia ...
- 11837: All Quiet on the Western Front
- ... the war has destroyed the lives of the men of his generation because they no longer have anything to return to. He acknowledges the fact that the war swept him away and now he doesn’t know what he can make of his life. He and the other men have become, in his words, wastelands. Even with all of the mental anguish they endure, the men are not often sad. In this paragraph, the reader is introduced to the frame of mind that the men are in. Müller, who in the first chapter expressed his desire for the dying Kemmerich’s boots, is in reality very sympathetic to Kemmerich’s suffering, but he sees that Kemmerich no longer has any need for the boots. Because of this, he feels has more of a rightful claim to them than a hospital orderly. The men now ...
- 11838: The Rhetorical Styles Of King
- ... on rhetoric, I will be using the ideas of Aristotle as the blueprint for effective writing to which I will compare the works of King and Morrison. First I will examine Martin Luther King Jr. s letter which embodies all of the characteristics outlined by Aristotle. The most clearly presented element in King s article is the use of ethos. King establishes himself as a credible and learned man early in the letter so that the reader has an immediate connection with him, and then he carries the thought throughout the letter s entirety. Within the first paragraph he uses this tactic when he writes, If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than ...
- 11839: The Scarlet Letter 10
- Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister s miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred! (Ch.24 ... He creates characters who have sin and disguise these sins for their own salvation. Slowly these sins evolve the characters, it strengthens Hester, humanizes Dimmesdale, and turns Chillingworth into a demon. The story is Hawthorne s depiction of the effects of sin on the hearts and minds of humanity during the Puritan society through the characters Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth. Hester s sin is that her passion and love were of more importance to her than the Puritan moral code, but she learns the error of her ways and slowly regains the adoration of the community. ...
- 11840: Capital Punishment - Injustice
- Looking out for the state of the public’s satisfaction in the scheme of capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today’s system of capital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonly offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. “It was a deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical. It satisfied the public’s need for retribution. It relieved the anguish of the victim’s family.”(Grisham 120) Realistically, imposing the death penalty is expensive and time consuming. Retroactively, it has yet to be proven as a deterrent. ...
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