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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
1,254 wordsThe character of Hester Prynne changed significantly throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. However, the Romantic philosophies of Hawthorne put down the Puritanic beliefs. She is a beautiful, young woman who has sinned, but is forgiven. Hawthorne portray...
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George Willard Great Deal
1,302 words"Hands, by Sherwood Anderson, is a story that seems to be stripped of sentimentality, yet conveys emotion. Anderson tells the somber story of a misunderstood and wrongfully accused man. The protagonist, Wing Biddlebaum, failed to communicate his true self. His inner desires were repressed because conventions and tradition distorted and twisted them. As mentioned before, the central character in Hands is Wing Biddlebaum. He is clearly a round character because he has more than one side to his per...
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Shirley Jackson Inanimate Object
1,121 wordsThe theme of violence and tradition is persuasive in the short story The Lottery written by Shirley Jackson. This theme is not a generalized theme of violence, but a theme of ritualistic violence. This violence is shown in the traditional town-wide lottery drawing that takes place on each June 27 th. However, this lottery is not to draw a winner of some great prize, but seeks to draw a loser whose life will be taken. This ritual has been practiced for so long that the townspeople are no longer a...
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Chartres Cathedral Notre Dame
1,779 wordsThe medieval Gothic cathedral was in many ways a civic building as well as a religious one. This particularly was the case with the famous cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres (Our Lady of Chartres) in the town of the same name, 80 km south-east of Paris, built in the 13 th century. Chartres cathedral was planned not only as a place of worship, but also developed as the centre of the town's economy and way of life, as the place that housed the relic of the cloak of the Virgin Mary. The local citizen...
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Effects Of Intolerance In Society
906 wordsIn society, many people tend to reject those who are different. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents a number of situations that reveal the effects of intolerance on other peoples lives. The characters in the novel who were treated with a lack of intolerance were Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson. By observing the effects of intolerance on peoples lives, the children gain sympathy, respect and understanding for its victims. The children gain sympathy for Boo Radley wh...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Character Hester In The Scarlet Letter
505 wordsIn the novel The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne undergoes both physical and emotional revelations. Hester is directly affected by the consequences of breaking moral and social codes of behavior. The novel is a story of a young woman who commits adultery, and stays strong when the community harasses her. She will not reveal the identity of her daughter Pearl's father. In the end of the novel, Arthur Dimmesdale, Pearl's father, reveals to the townspeople that he is a...
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Raided Curonian Lands Masovian Duke Boleslas Lithuania
1,420 words... also made peace with Tautvilas, who later took control of Plots, and served as a subordinate of Mindaugas. In January 1256 the Samogitians, under the leadership of Duke Alminas, entered into an active battle with the Livonian Crusaders, and raided Curonian lands, then under Livonian rule. The Samogitians negotiated a 2 -year cease-fire with the Crusaders in the spring of 1257, following successful battles. 1259 marked the end of the negotiated cease-fire, and the battles between the Samogiti...
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Rose For Emily Past And Present
1,260 wordsIn the short story, A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily Grierson, had a death and funeral that drew the attention of the entire town. The story is set during the changing times after the civil war, and there are many symbols in the story that bring out the theme of change. The story opens with Miss Emily Grierson's death and funeral, which foreshadows the ending. The outcome is further emphasized by the symbolism of the decaying house, which parallels Emily's physica...
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Young Goodman Brown Vs Rose For Emily
1,776 wordsYoung Goodman Brown vs. Rose For Emily In this paper I would like to evaluate and analyze two literary works, namely, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Rose For Emily by William Faulkner. The reason for my choosing these two works is the following: I believe that on close reading of the aforementioned novels one can trace the similarity in the personality of the main character is portrayed as being the incarnation of twisted perception of the world and what good and evil is. Young G...
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Hand Over His Heart Pearl
1,016 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Children are, by nature, incredibly sensitive creatures. They can sense almost any emotion an adult might feel just by observing that adult? s body language and facial expressions. Such is the case with the youthful Pearl from the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. As the daughter of the adulteress Hester Prynne, the townspeople view Pearl as a demon in an angel? s clothing; who not only knows exactly what the letter A signifies on the bosom of her mother, but a...
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Young Goodman Brown Begins To Question
792 words&# 65279; Losing Faith In Young Goodman Brown, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown is tempted by the evil that surrounds him and he must keep his faith in order to resist it. The use of the events, characters, and symbols throughout the story show that evil is present in the people of the town in which Goodman Brown lives and how Goodman Browns faith in them is lost. Humanity is basically flawed and people struggle with making the choice between good and evil. Throughout the story, Goodman Bro...
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Allegory Of The Cave Real World
375 wordsThe Movie Chocolat is yet another story which parallels Plato's Allegory of the Cave. The story deals with a town full of people experiencing an awakening through the eating of chocolate. Vianne and her daughter open up a Chocolaterie in a small French town during the season of lent. They are met with stiff opposition from the mayor because of this and because they do not attend church. Slowly, the townspeople begin to visit the shop. When they enter Vianne asks them to look at a spinning clay p...
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Shirley Jacksons Human Race
535 wordsShirley Jacksons, The Lottery, has raised questions in the back of every readers mind towards the destructive yet blind rituals of mankind. A reflection of ourselves is what we see when looking through the pond of Jacksons mind. The Lottery clearly expressed Jacksons feelings concerning traditional rituals through her story, opened the eyes of its readers to properly classify and question some of todays traditions as cruel, and allowed room to foretell the outcome of these unusual traditions. Ja...
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Tessie Hutchinson Twenty Seven
991 words&# 65279; Shirley Jackson s The Lottery is a short story that chronicles the annual sacrifice ceremony of a fictional small American town. It is a detailed narrative of the selection ofthe person to be sacrificed, a process known to the townspeople as the lottery. This selection is extremely rich in symbolism, with what seems to be a special focus on religious emphasis. There are three main types of religious symbolism in this piece: characters names, objects, and numbers. The characters names p...
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People Lives Boo Radley
924 wordsIn society, many people tend to reject those who are different. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents a number of situations that reveal the effects of intolerance on other people? s lives. The characters in the novel who were treated with a lack of intolerance were Boo Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson. By observing the effects of intolerance on people? s lives, the children gain sympathy, respect and understanding for its victims. The children gain sympathy for Boo Radle...
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Rose For Emily Emily Grierson
825 wordsFallen from Grace A comparative essay on the use of symbolism in William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily. Authors traditionally use symbolism as a way to represent the sometimes intangible qualities of the characters, places, and events in their works. In his short story A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses symbolism to compare the Grierson house with Emily Grierson's physical deterioration, her shift in social standing, and her reluctance to accept change. When compared chronologically, the Grie...
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Matthew Harrison Brady Drummond Pg 25 One
829 wordsMatthew Harrison Brady, of Inherit the Wind by: Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, never fooled anyone. He may have seemed strong in the beginning but he no substance under the shell. Such a false front can be compared to water behind an earthen dam. It may hold some water for a time but once the water finds a weak point, the whole structure comes crashing down along with the fury of all the water behind it. Within brady, the water represents the gooey inner core of his personality. Once he lose...
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Live Their Lives Day To Day
2,186 wordsIn 1919, Sherwood Anderson composed his work Winesburg Ohio, which depicts the inner lives of small-town America. Andersons fascination to explore whats beneath the surface of human lives results in another story in 1933 called Death In The Woods. These two works, incidentally, share a common theme of isolation. The characters in these works, are portrayed as grotesques or people who live their lives by one truth, thus living a life of falsehood and isolation from the rest of the world. This ess...
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Town Of Salem Mistress Hibbins
1,488 wordsIn the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn the society of a Puritan town of Salem excludes anyone who is in any way deviant and renders that person sinful. However, the society, the townspeople themselves, is not without fault. However they try to conceal and contain their passions and all their faults because of their fear of exclusion. All the characters in the book that are excluded from society are the most natural and true and possess a second-sense perception and almost magical ...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
1,134 wordsHester and the Scarlet Letter: Unobtainable Simplicity The achievement of simplicity in life never occurs because things are not simple, but manifold, being viewed differently, and speaking more than one purpose. Nathaniel Hawthorne journeys to seventeenth century Boston and introduces Hester Prynne as he makes his awareness of this idea evident. Through The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne presents the complexity of lifes components whether they appear as simple as an embroidered letter or as intricat...
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