are plenty of examples of appearance versus reality in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The most significant one‚ it seems to me‚ is the fact that the pious minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ is actually an adulterer who had an illicit affair with a married woman. Throughout the novel‚ a war between his soul/spirit and his body rages. He is a sensitive man to begin with‚ and then the constant conflict between what he knows he should do (public confession and repentance) and what he does (private
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Altschull (1996) and various other contemporary critics (Massey & Haas‚ 2002 as cited in Domingo et al.‚ 2008) question the press’ arrogance and its faith in objectivity‚ and hence propose alternative models of journalism known as Participatory/Citizen/Alternative/Community Journalism. These models ask for a more reciprocal relationship between reporters and their audience‚ suggesting that news should be more of a conversation than a lecture (Gillmor‚ 2004 as cited in Domingo et al.‚ 2008).
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with both positive and negative aspects of their personas. The story begins in mid-17th century New England with Hester Prynne being publicly humiliated for having a child out of wedlock. She is branded with a scarlet letter "A" as an adulterer but refuses to disclose who the father is. Soon after‚ Hester’s former husband shows up under the pseudonym of Roger Chillingworth and makes Hester promise not to tell anyone who he is as he tries to hunt down her lover. As the story progresses‚ the reader and
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disorder where one can be whoever they want to be‚ and ultimately misbehave. The contrast of civilization and wilderness is seen in this following quote‚ “ Thou and I‚ Hester‚ never did…’ ‘ Never‚ never!... What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it so! We said so to each other! Hast thou forgotten it?” (183). When Hester and Dimmesdale meet each other in the forest‚ they turn into happy love birds‚ but if they where in town they probably would have not even acknowledged each others presence
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they start forgiving for a sin? Throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne learns answers to such questions after it is learned she in an adulteress. Hester’s scarlet letter serves as a reminder to herself and her peers of the sins she has committed‚ and there is a true evolution from the beginning to the end of the story of the views of not only the letter but the person wearing it from Hester herself‚ the villagers‚ Pearl‚ and the author. Throughout the story‚ the reader
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Maddie George 10/7/12 1st hour Scarlet Letter In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ Scarlet Letter‚ he tells the story of a sinner‚ Hester Prynne. Hester has committed adultery and now has a child as a result of her sin. Hester has naturally put herself aside from the other puritan members of the community. She has mostly secluded herself from the puritan women of the town. Hester endures many issues involving Reverend Dimmesdale‚ who later find out is her fellow sinner in committing adultery. She also has
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gathering information and packing it into a story. Through this analysis‚ we can see that the growth of new media such as bloggers and citizen journalists has flourished the information and opinions accessible for citizens. The decline of the traditional news media has made a turning point with the presence of new media‚ the concurrent evolution of web-based bloggers and citizen journalism sites‚ and the explosion of social media tools‚ which is an inevitable issue. The new technologies have made contributions
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early colonial age of New England‚ where religion played a huge role in shaping society and life. Throughout the book‚ sin was a constant factor that plays a role in Reverend Dimmesdale’s life. Committing one of the unforgivable sins‚ adultery‚ with Hester‚ he lets his guilt control his life. However‚ it is better that Dimmesdale doesn’t confess his sin because it leads to Dimmesdale having greater influence over the community‚ and it helps him understand who he is in the process. After his celestial
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its freedom. The wilderness also affects the characters in the book‚ specifically Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester is exiled from the community‚ living on the brink of wilderness‚ “outlawed from society‚ and so freed‚ in a sense‚ she…. [goes] beyond accepted Puritan attitudes toward society and theology” (Eisinger 325). No longer an active participant in society‚ living in nature with only her daughter‚ Hester is presented with a sense of freedom. She embraces that freedom and uses it to
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exist far into the future. As far as the realism and formalism stand point‚ the narrative form is a mix of both. It is fictional‚ but it resembles the world we know. The style usually draws the line where things become unbelievable. To quota “Citizen Kane” as a example‚ the background of this film is a story that examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane‚ a character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Kane’s career in the publishing world is born
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