at Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets explore the role of human aspirations and the quest to establish or maintain an identity against vastly different social contexts and in markedly different literary forms. While The Great Gatsby (TGG) develops an ironic‚ shifting but ultimately pessimistic if not cynical viewpoint on the nature of human aspirations and our likelihood of maintaining an individual identity against the range of social pressures‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets
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In the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne is convicted of adultery and condemned to wear a scarlet “A” and suffer essential excommunication from society. Hester and her young daughter‚ Pearl‚ find themselves outcasts in the Puritan society of seventeenth-century Boston. On the surface‚ this novel’s tale is the opposite of proto-feminist‚ a term applied to works that show the emergence of modern feminist concepts. Via the actions and characteristics main characters‚ or perhaps
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We started listing names that would do something like that and we came up with these. Mrs.white‚ Colonel Mustard‚ Professor plum‚ Mrs. Peacock‚ Mr. Green‚ and Miss scarlet. Yeah yeah‚ we know these people are older than us but we couldn’t figure out any high schooler that would do such a crime. So after that we went back to the crime scene were the murder happened. We made it there to find nothing‚ we couldn’t find
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Maternity in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne presents motherhood as one of the main themes in the novel. The story is centered in Hester Prynne and the subsequent difficulties she had to overcome after committing adultery in a Puritan community. Early in the novel‚ specifically in the second chapter the author describes Hester Prynne and her baby as something extraordinary and beautiful: "... this beautiful woman‚ so picturesque in her attire and mien‚ and with the
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Robyn Walz 9/01/2013 Prompt 2 Sexist Punishments? : Protofeminism in The Scarlet Letter In the eyes of some‚ The Scarlet Letter may seem like a protofeminist novel. In the eyes of some‚ had Hester been a man‚ her punishment would not have been nearly as embarrassing and deceitful. In the eyes of some‚ Hester did nothing but the right thing based on her trying to protect other women from gender-based prosecution‚ though it meant completely disregarding Puritan laws in her society. Then again‚
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In his novel the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. His life being as just an ordinary‚ lower-class‚ citizen‚ yet Gatsby still has a dream of becoming wealthy man. After meeting Daisy‚ he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life‚ Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced‚ he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says‚ "Gatsby turned out alright at the
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The “Great” Jay Gatsby The word great has many meanings – outstanding‚ eminent‚ grand‚ important‚ extraordinary‚ noble‚ etc. - and varies along with the intent of the speaker and on the interpretation of the hearer. Someone may perceive something as great‚ and yet someone else may see that same thing as horrendous. The greatness of a being is not determined by themselves‚ but by those around them who experience‚ and perceive‚ their greatness through actions and words. In the book‚ “The Great Gatsby”
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Throughout the novel‚ Hawthorne uses plant imagery to symbolize both the negative and positive character traits and to set the mood of the novel. The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne takes place during the age of Puritanism in Boston where a young and attractive Puritan woman commits adultery with the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale. Chillingworth‚ Hesters’ husband‚ whom everyone thought was captured by Indians comes to town‚ but only Hester knows his true identity. Chillingworth vows to figure out
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Gatsby was a man who had wounded love‚ but only loved one woman. The novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ draws a tragic life of him. Gatsby failed on his first love with Daisy‚ whom later married a rich man named Tom. Gatsby resents himself without money. Naturally‚ he obsesses earning money and authority. Afterward‚ he hosts a colossal party every night. He achieves the aspiration waiting to meet Daisy again. However‚ Daisy betrays Gatsby putting the guilt of car accident on Gatsby made by her. One surprising
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town’s people are mortified. She also isn’t a bad person she just happens to make a mistake. Chris Herren and Hester Prynne both made a great mistake in their lives but it does not make them awful people. When Hester committed her sin she had to be punished. Wearing the letter A presented the symbolism of adultery. At first she felt uncomfortable wearing the letter A”. .I happened to place it on my breast....It seemed to me then‚ that I experienced a sensation not altogether physical‚ yet almost so
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