In the novel The Scarlet Letter it was necessary to keep Hester Prynne’s adulteress lover Arthur Dimmesdale a secret because of their young daughter Pearl. Hester Prynne was married at the time Pearl was conceived‚ making the townspeople furious with her adultery. As her husband comes to town under an alias named physician Roger Chillingworth‚ he examines the Panic-stricken baby and bashes Hester for being deceitful. Moving to the outskirts of town and raising what many called a “devil baby” Pearl
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Chester A. Arthur He was born on October 5th 1829‚ In Fairland Vermont. He had nine siblings‚ and was the eldest of the three sons in the family. Being the one of the elders of his many siblings‚ he acquired a desire to lead. His father was a preacher. Like any preacher kid at that time‚ his family was often transferred various villages in Vermont and upstate New York‚ which widened Chester’s view of politics in diverse locations. Also being a preacher’s kid‚ he had to have some admirable ethics
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Arthurian Legends Compare & Contrast Mr. Finn The quality of merlin are a lot for example he is loyal men its why people like him he try to help the king author to not get kill in their missions it’s why king author likes him merlin Is loyal to him and he doesn’t treat people bad he really good servant and something good about merlin is that he do magic is he only does it to do good to his town he doesn’t do it for evil like for example he is wise men so when he kill the guy that made the
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Arthur Miller Background Study: In preparation for Death of a Salesman Miller’s Early Life ● Arthur Miller was born on Oct. 17‚ 1915‚ in New York City. ● His father ran a small coat-manufacturing business; during the Depression it failed. ● He was 17 before he read any serious literature and had poor grades in high school. (woo hoo – there’s hope!) The College Years ● Two years after high school graduation‚ he enrolled in the University of Michigan. ● Before graduating in 1938‚ he won two Avery
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LIEUTENANT--GENERAL SIR ARTHUR CURRIE (A brief account of the battle of Passchendaele) Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie was the most capable soldier that Canada has produced. Certainly‚ he did not look like the great soldier he had become. A very tall man‚ at six-foot-four‚ he was also somewhat overweight. Through his successes as the Commander of the Canadian Corps‚ he knew how to delegate authority and stand by the decisions of his subordinates. Currie‚ however‚ was not a professional
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Donald Willis Ms. Hunsaker Rhetoric and Composition 4 October 2013 In Edgar Allen Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart‚” an unnamed narrator tells his story of how “he will defend his sanity yet confess to having killed an old man.” There are many ways to analyze this poem‚ but one thing is certain‚ the narrator is not sane. The narrator claims to have no quarrel with the old man‚ but he despised the old man’s “pale blue eye.” Although this is normal what the narrator did at night was not. “Every night
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The role of the narrator The tell tale heart is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. As most Poe’s narrator the narrator is an unreliable first person narrator. It means that the narrator is unable to relate the real facts of the story even though he attempts to convince the reader that he possesses all his senses and therefore he can tell him the ’’ whole story’’. ’’how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story’’. Later in the story just before the climax he says:’’ And now have
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In this response‚ I intend to discuss Arthur Streeton’s Fire’s On‚ a 183.8 x 122.5cm oil on canvas painting‚ produced in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales‚ Australia in 1891‚ after “nationalistic sentiment” had taken its toll with the centennial of the European settlement. Fire’s On depicts the steep “walls of rock” “crowned” with “bronze green” “gums” and the “crest mouth” that he encountered on his journey through the Blue Mountains. Streeton created this painting to justly portray the rough
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In the play crucible written by; Arthur Miller there are many antagonist through out the story‚ there were many things people can learn. I learned about religion‚ education‚ family lives‚ and justice. Because the people in the Crucible did not do things as we do now‚ we also know they had different lifestyles. Like things we do now as people wouldn’t be compared and thought of what they’ve done in the crucible. By examining the characters Abigail Williams‚ John Proctor‚ and Elizabeth Proctor‚
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Happiness or Duty? Arthur Miller’s‚ An Enemy of the People‚ depicts an intriguing playwright in which the differences of opinions between two brothers leads to a town revolution and the expulsion of one brother from the community. One brother‚ Dr. Stockmann‚ believed the contamination of the water in the town’s health spa was sufficient reasoning to be shut down. The other brother‚ Peter Stockmann‚ took an opposing stance believing that the health spa was the towns only means to economic salvation
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