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The Effects Of Sin On Hester P

... Hester went beyond the letter of the law and did everything asked of her in order to prove that she is "able." She comes from an impoverished but genteel English family, having lived in a "decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated sheild of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility." But even without that specific indication of her high birth, the reader would know that Hester is a lady, from her bearing and pride. Especially in Chapter two, when she bravely faces the humiliation o ...

Number of words: 660 | Number of pages: 3

The Scarlet Letter: Physical And Psychological Effects And Consequences Of Adultry

... The Scarlet Letter demonstrates the physical and psychological effects and consequences of adultery in all of the novel’s characters. Hester Prynne suffers many consequences of committing adultery. First of all, she becomes pregnant. She has to go through all the pain of childbirth. A symbolic name that means purchased at a great price. Hester is also left out in the social point of view. All of the citizens of Boston look down and condemn her for the sin she committed. Although Hester is clearly a Puritan, she does fully acknowl ...

Number of words: 1402 | Number of pages: 6

SALEM

... of the abuses of power, the need for control and the absolute belief in authority figures lead to the witch hunt. Throughout the witch hunt the abuses of power are prevalent. The abuse was broad spectrum and everyone from the accusing girls to the judge are involved. Abigail Williams is the leader of the girls. She begins this charade in order to save herself and the other girls from the punishment that they would have been handed down for them dancing in the woods. Abigail being a conniving girl sees the opportunity to save herself and see ...

Number of words: 1216 | Number of pages: 5

The Crucible

... time and place. The major theme of Arthur Miller’s is guilt by association. is set in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. The events in take place in the late seventeenth century. The people of Salem were colonist from England seeking religious freedom. Salem was a Puritan town and had a strong theocracy. The moral standards of the people were very high. A fear of the unknown hung over the population. The setting of helps add to the conflict and sets up a fertile environment for associated guilt (Weales 58). Examples of as ...

Number of words: 1236 | Number of pages: 5

Rumors : Summary

... to avoid a possible attempted suicide scandal. They first lie to Charley's personal doctor, they lie about what happened to all of the servants, and they finally about a second gunshot heard in the house. When the Gormans first encounter Charley in his bedroom, they immediately call his personal doctor at the theater to tell him that Charley feels just fine. Chris relates the story to the doctor when she says, "Dr. Dudley, I'm afraid there's been an accident_ Well, we just arrived here at Charley's house about ten minutes ago, and as we wer ...

Number of words: 865 | Number of pages: 4

A Seperate Peace

... and subdued hatred—that he feels for people that he had undying loyalty for, and an equally strong trust. These emotions then set off a series of events that change his life forever, and he has to fight more for peace amidst a world of chaos. He experiences new feelings— fear, frustration, pity, and undeniable guilt. From his experiences in his last year of school at Devon, he emerges with greater strength, greater understanding, maturity, and he finds the separate peace that every man longs for. “Phineas just walked ser ...

Number of words: 838 | Number of pages: 4

Allegory Of The Cave

... Allegory of the Cave" symbolizes this trek and how it would look to those still in a lower realm. Plato is saying that humans are all prisoners and that the tangible world is our cave. The things which we perceive as real are actually just shadows on a wall. Just as the escaped prisoner ascends into the light of the sun, we amass knowledge and ascend into the light of true reality: ideas in the mind. Yet, if someone goes into the light of the sun and beholds true reality and then proceeds to tell the other captives of the truth, they laugh ...

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Of Mice And Men: George, Lennie, And Crooks

... and that in itself is a job. The nature of George is such that he must constantly complain about the amount of trouble that Lennie causes him. “ O.K. -O.K. I’ll tell ya again. I ain’t got nothing to do. Might just as well spen’ all my time tellin you things and you forget ‘em, and I tell you again. I could get along so easy, and so nice if I didn’t have you on my tail. I could live so easy and maybe have a girl.” George’s job is to work on a ranch “bucking grain bags bustin’ a gut.” Primarily, that is his official ...

Number of words: 1511 | Number of pages: 6

Of Mice And Men: Loneliness

... is only one theme that is present from beginning to end, this theme is pursuit of dreams. There are many characters where lonliness is evident throughout parts or all of their life. But all of these characters who appear to be lonely only tend to play a minor role in the story. This is not to say that they are insignificant but they help to convey the feelings and emotions that surround the major characters rather than their own. Characters like Curley's wife and Crooks are unmistakably lonely, but they show how their lonliness is the oppos ...

Number of words: 917 | Number of pages: 4

Sources Of Pleasure And Disqui

... Rex takes place during the course of a day and uses flashback to fill in the details of the story. It tells of the cursed man Oedipus, who was born to Laius and Iocaste, the King and Queen of Thebes. It was prophesied by an Oracle that when Oedipus grew up he would kill his father, marry his mother, and father her children. Fearing this, Iocaste and Laius pierce the child's ankles and leave him on a hillside to die. Unknown to them, a messenger finds Oedipus and nurses him back to health. Eventually, Oedipus is adopted by the King and ...

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Bypassing The Truth About Reality

... he displays how people of “normal” status view others who are different, in a freakish and negative way. He points out how people are unwilling to make an attempt to know a person for who they are, because they are too quick to judge one on their external appearance and obvious differences. In the essay “Notes of a Native Son”, Baldwin shows how his father represents an extremely stubborn man, set in his ways, unwilling to change. “He could be chilling in the pulpit and indescribably cruel in his personal life and he was certain ...

Number of words: 1388 | Number of pages: 6

Wuthering Heights

... Catherine, and thusly leads her to stray from her true nature. It is difficult to separate the character from the author, noting that the author's childhood was basically isolated and gloomy, and Catherine herself, is a truly private individual. It is this sense of privacy, in my opinion, that supersedes any other factor throughout the story. To understand this sense of inwardness, one must explore the novel itself. The story begins in the early 1800's (c. 1801) and one Mr. Lockwood removed from the narrative. The novel begins to take sh ...

Number of words: 1467 | Number of pages: 6

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