Luke Sousa Professor Hogg Comm-126-1037 2 January 2016 Module Eight Lesson Four Mastery Assignment: The Scarlet Letter Chapters 13-19 a. What do many townspeople now say the A represents? The townspeople now believe the A stands for “able” rather than the real intention being “adulterer” b. Why does Hester feel she is to blame for Dimmesdale’s poor condition? Hester feels that she is to blame for Dimmesdale’s poor condition because while Dimmesdale has been torturing himself over his secret and
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Human Nature in the Scarlet Letter In the Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the flaws of the main characters‚ revealing the negativity in their human nature. Throughout the novel‚ each character is depicted to have his or her own value and ideas. The novel begins with the main character‚ Hester Prynne‚ being led from a prison to a scaffold before the townspeople of early Boston‚ Massachusetts. The Magistrates of the town are punishing her for committing the sin of adultery and having
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Lauren Ehlers Dr. St. John English 102 March 25‚ 2011 Marriage; a road to imprisonment Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour‚” and Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” present similar plots about two wives who have grown to feel imprisoned in their own marriages. “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” focuses on a woman who feels so entrapped in her own marriage that she begins to feel this type of isolation and imprisonment all around her. She begins to feel as though the room‚ in which she is being forced
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In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the sunshine is used as a symbol to suggest happiness among the characters. The reason this symbol stands out is because there were numerous times in the novel where Pearl speaks of the sunshine hiding or fleeing from Hester. The reason for the sunshine disappearing on Hester is because sunshine represents happiness and as long as Hester wears her scarlet letter “A”‚ she will never be happy. There are several aspects in the story where the topic of sunshine
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Kelsey Federspill Scarlet Letter Literary Analysis R5 12.2. 12 Over Coming Guilt Remorse is a feeling experienced after committing an act that produces a sense of guilt. A life lesson can be learned in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ about the theme of guilt. Everyone experiences guilt when they commit a sin or human frailty but the way one handles the feelings of guilt is different. Guilt is expressed in three main ways: ignoring or hiding the sin and letting the guilt build
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The Symbolism of Red in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the color red to represent passion‚ the need for beauty‚ and individuality in The Scarlet Letter. In the story‚ Hester Prynne‚ a young woman living in a Puritan community during the mid-17th century‚ is convicted of adultery and forced to live her life in a state of exile‚ branded by the Puritans through the embroidery of a scarlet A on her chest. Her and her child Pearl live in the outlying forest and are
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Scarlet letter Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in the 1800s‚ he was an anti-transcendentalist‚ this means he believed people are bad at heart and society keeps us from being wild animals. The Scarlet Letter takes place in a Puritan town. Hawthorne wrote about a puritan town because his great uncle lived in a Puritan town during the Salem witch trials‚ he was obsessed with that. The Scarlet Letter is about two adults living with their sin‚ which is adultery. In this novel‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses
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This is shown very well in the book The Scarlet Letter‚ there are many examples of this religious time period and the pressures of living in this time‚ to be a good person in the eye of a Puritan. In my essay I am going to talk about this standard of the church or of human standards‚ set by this time period‚ religion‚ people‚ and the hypocrisy of how some lived their lives’. Hester Prynne‚ who is the main character in the book The Scarlet letter‚ is a perfect and great example‚ on how
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Rough Draft Compare and Contrast Essay 3/9/14 TV Shows: Dr. Phil & Maury In today’s world of TV shows and entertainment‚ talk shows have been shown to be one of the most watched and the most hyped type of television programming throughout the world. No matter whose household it is‚ it’ll be likely that they are watching talk shows‚ such as Oprah Winfrey’s show or even Jerry Springer’s show. Basically we all know the norm for talk shows‚ and how they usually show negative scenarios or talk
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