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Made The Decision Discharged Abby Elizabeth
784 wordsA crucible, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Concise Electronic Dictionary, is the state or fact of being tested (as by suffering), which attests to what Elizabeth Proctor is going through exactly. Elizabeth has quite a crucible to struggle through. The infidelity of her husband is a major element in her being. Her struggle includes staying true to both her husband and her God. Another is the persecution by Abigail Warren, a former employee and assistant. Elizabeth also has to suffer through th...
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Young Goodman Brown Scarlet Letter
832 wordsAlthough many readers may say Hawthorne's writing is difficult to understand, the descriptions of the characters and settings are vividly depicted through the use of allegory, and his many instances of symbolism throughout his stories. "Young Goodman Brown" is an excellent example how allegory is shown through the writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story's beginning shows Goodman Brown as he bids farewell to his young wife, Faith, before running an errand into the forest. From that beginning of...
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Infidelity And The Science Of Cheating
908 wordsThis a Review from an article in Newsweek 12 - 30 - 96 written by Sharon Begley "Infidelity and the Science of Cheating" Through research psychologists and other researchers have claimed that sexual infidelity effects both men and women differently. In addition, their beliefs on sexual infidelity differ. There have been many theories about the occurrence of infidelity, and most researchers have different opinions about these theories. Researchers from the article Infidelity and the Science of Ch...
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Sense Of Justice End Of Act
1,060 words... o believe is justified or Iago who, at least psychologically, is the true The irony of Othello lies in the fact that by trying to expose Othello as a beast, Iago himself becomes a beats Othello could never return to an anomalistic state because he never loses his sense of honor. His murder of Desdemona is an act misguided justice. Yet Iago's part in the murder is more fitting of a beast. Othello murders with a reason; Iago murder without a reason. As the play progresses, the use of animal im...
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Confessing To Witch Craft Importance For One Proctor
1,457 wordsThomas Paine once wrote, These are the times that try men's souls. He of course was speaking of the difficulty the colonists faced during the Revolutionary war. However, we see that throughout history there have been numerous times when man has been faced with great dilemmas, the outcomes of which have had an effect on society as a whole. Those who lived in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, were faced with such similar struggles. Some of these battles were outwardly fought and others were the, some...
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Affair With Abigail Giles Corey
1,158 wordsAct One begins with the Rev. Samuel Parris praying for his daughter Betty who lies faint in her bed, suffering from a strange malady. Betty and Abigail, Parris's niece, and some of the other village girls had been surprised by Parris in the forest as they were engaged in a voodoo ritual led by Tituba, Parris's black slave. Betty fainted and still had not recovered. Ann and Thomas Putnam, prosperous villagers, arrive and claim that the children are suffering from "the Devil's touch" at the hands ...
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Repeated Three Times Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
757 wordsHerman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were contemporaries of each other. They lived very different lives, one living as a sailor for four years and the other attending an Ivy League school, yet their writing reflects a similar style, as shown in Melville's Billy Bud and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Religious symbolism is found in abundance in each of the works. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid, Puritanistic structured society in which one is unabl...
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Gospel Of John Synoptic Gospels
1,138 wordsAn Analysis of The Story of the Adulterous Woman Look which of you that never sin wrought, Cast at her stones and spare her not, (N-Town: Woman Taken In Adultery: Medieval Drama; Bevington, David; Houghton Mifflin, 1975) Who among us has never sinned? And, in our place as fellow victims of our own all too human nature, have we any right to pass judgement on those who do the same as we do, if with less discretion? If so, this begs the question of whether morality lies in following the social more...
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Cultural Norms Gender Role
954 wordsIt is not possible or commendable in mainstream United States to imitate biblical-times gender role patterns. In biblical times, male and female weren't associated according to gender as much as they were according to relationship. Because of the enmeshed society where individuating was not only not done but wasn't seen as normal or healthy we cannot as individuals in the United States begin to imitate let alone completely understand gender role patterns in biblical-times. Women were seen as sis...
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Ethical Issues Private Lives
1,149 wordsWhat responsibility does the press have in keeping the public informed while at the same time, respecting the privacy and sensibility of individuals? The press has the power to influence virtually all areas of our lives. Words and images are combined to produce various messages and meanings. All that is presented to us undoubtedly has an effect; whether it be positive, negative or neutral. In some countries the press is seen as an instrument for exposing the truth, and in others it is seen as an...
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Hester Prynne Roger Chillingworth
809 wordsFor Every Action There is a Reaction: the Affects of Sin in The Scarlet Letter According to Websters Collegiate Dictionary, sin is defined as an action that is or is felt to be highly reprehensible. The average person would agree that it is only in human nature to sin. Therefore the severity of such transgressions is diluted with that simple justification. However, the less frequently discussed and oftentimes the more important issue is the effects of a man or womans sin. Nathaniel Hawthorne's T...
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Scarlet Letter Puritan Society
1,524 words... y important to her. She can either betray her love for Dimmesdale and her own self-respect by giving in to her husband and to puritan custom, or she can choose to stick by her principles and, in turn, trade away both her freedom and her reputation. Under the harsh circumstances, Hester seems to do the best she possibly can, constantly showing both willful determination and loving kindness despite all of her mistakes. Little by little, Hester begins to accept the life that has been dealt to h...
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How The Characters Of Scarlet Letter Represent Sin
756 wordsLexico Publishing Dictionary at Dictionary. com defines sin as; 1. A transgression of a religious or moral law, especially when deliberate, and 2. Something regarded as being shameful, deplorable, or utterly wrong. These who definitions cleary represent the sin in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, through the characters Hester Prynne, her daughter Pearl, Dimmesdale the father, and Chillingworth, Hester's husband. Hester Prynne, the wearer of the famous scarlet letter that gave the novel ...
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The Secrets Of Hunters In Snow
836 wordsIn Tobias Wolff's Hunters in the Snow, the three main characters each have secrets which they are concealing despite their friendships. These obscuring truths later cause trouble for each of the characters and will lead to their destruction. How will their decisions and lies impact their relationships? The first character introduced in the story is Tub. Tub is portrayed as being rather large. The readers first image of Tub is when Kenny says, He looks just like a giant beach ball with a hat on (...
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Rest Of Her Life Hester And Pearl
1,031 words... to hide from accusations of witchcraft. She is tied in closely with the forest, and seems to know everything that goes on within this domain. B) Her worship of the Devil and her insatiable curiosity to know the happenings around her motivate her. C) Mistress Hibbins is left living with her brother, supposedly worshipping the Devil, at the end of the book. Reverend Wilson A) He represented the spiritual facet of Boston's everyday life. He was an elderly minister in the town of Boston. ...
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Evil And The Second Sense
1,502 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 magica...
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Myths And Legends Double Standards
1,380 wordsThroughout the ages myths, legends and fairytales have been used to teach people basic moral and educational lessons. For example, mothers and fathers use the childhood story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears to teach their children that stealing and snooping is wrong. In the end, Goldilocks was either eaten or she ran away, depending on your bloodthirsty nature. By using this comparison between myths and reality the Romans were able to control their women, and to discourage them from vain, roma...
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The Crucible Elizabeth Personal
1,187 wordsPrior to the play Miller clearly establishes what the Salem community would have been like in 1692: The children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak This shows us that life in Salem in 1692 was very strict and religious. There was a very rigid regime to follow and everyone should be thankful to god for being allowed to follow it. It was as if it was so rigid someone would soon burst out a...
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The Scarlet Letter Analysis Of Pearl Prynne
941 wordsPearl Prynne. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he created a symbol of great magnitude. A character that changed the story for good and for worse, her name was Pearl Prynne. Pearl is not meant to be a realistic character. Rather, she is a complicated symbol of an act of love and passion adultery. Pearl is the living version of the scarlet letter. It was the scarlet letter in another form; the scarlet letter endowed with life. (98) When Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale committed a...
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Personal Integrity Public Reputation Proctor
428 wordsIn a sense, The Crucible has the structure of a classical tragedy, with John Proctor as the play's tragic hero. Honest, upright, and blunt-spoken, Proctor is a good man, but one with a secret, fatal flaw. His lust for Abigail Williams led to their affair (which occurs before the play begins), and created Abigail's jealousy of his wife, Elizabeth, which sets the entire witch hysteria in motion. Once the trials begin, Proctor realizes that he can stop Abigail's rampage through Salem but only if he...
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