her mother’s sin. Often described as mean and anti-social‚ mainly to the community‚ can be interpreted as that Pearls reason for existence is strictly to make known the shameful secret of her birth‚ and to cause her mother much pain and strife. Hawthorne bluntly describes her as a "witch‚" or the devils child. Hester also refuses to reveal the "true" meaning of the Embroidered letter that she wears. This is symbolic because until she knows what the letter means‚ she is unable to decode who she really
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Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of the most widely known authors to use symbols in American literature. In the book‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ he uses symbols to represent an idea. An example of this would be religious‚ moral‚ or philosophical concept or value. An allegory in literature is a story where characters‚ objects‚ and events have a hidden meaning and are used to present some universal lesson. Hawthorne demonstrates this type of symbolism in the book because the Puritans saw
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Chapter –VI FINDINGS‚ CONCLUSIONS‚ RECOMMENDATIONS AND SCOPE FOR FURTHER RESEARCH This research was broad based‚ involving multi dimensional study of all possible factors influencing the Personal Market in general and Small Car Market in particular. There are very important findings related to influence of socio-economic issues of Indian middle class‚ infrastructural issues like development of roads‚ government policies‚ price and cost of running and maintaining the car etc. Performance
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James Olinger Ms. Gold Organizational Behavior – MGMT 362 “Week 3 - Case Study #1” The year 2004‚ for my wife and I would be a year to remember as we had just become a homeowner in the lovely State of California. As a single income family‚ we were only able to fit into in a negative-amortization loan known as‚ “The Interest-Only Home Loan.” However‚ several years later in 2008‚ we would find ourselves along with the rest of the Nation in what was called‚ “The subprime mortgage meltdown‚” whereas
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LAB#: 20 SKILL: Planning and Designing OBSERVATIONS: A student is given a small beaker containing an unknown salt‚ x. The salt is crystalline‚ deliquescent and colorless. The student is asked to perform test and observation on the salt to determine the cation and anion present. HYPOTHESIS: Perhaps by using the flame test or reacting salt x with NaOH‚ or NH4OH the cation could be distinguished by observing the color changes or solubility while reacting salt x with H2SO4 or a mixture of copper
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"The Hunger Artist‚" which is Kafka’s masterpiece‚ suggests that humans can never satisfy their desires. "The Hunger Artist‚" which is a story about a man who professionally fasts in a cage‚ is limited only 40 days of fasting by his manager‚ even though the artist believes he can last much longer. The Hunger Artist still remains unsatisfied even after his very pleased crowd leaves. The artist eventually hires himself out to the circus. However‚ the crowd only watches him because he is near the animals
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„Young Goodman Brown”‚ a strory written by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ has been popular among both readers and critics. The story is allegorical‚ which means that the characters and objects in the story represent abstract ideas. Hawthorne uses symbolism throughout the story and the symbols are not difficult to identify. He clearly wants them to be obvious to even the least attentive reader. Hawthorne uses the symbols to support his points while showing the moral aspects of his society‚ those symbols may
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repentance and dignity. Hawthorne’s novel is filled with much symbolism. In chapter 5‚ Hawthorne uses her clothing to reveal Hester’s self-perception as self-loathing‚ to depict society against her‚ and to explore the nature of her daughter’s conception. Hawthorne uses Hester’s needlework to portray her self-perception. “Her own dress was of the coarsest materials and the most sombre hue” (p.56). Hawthorne employs irony to give emphasis to Hester’s situation. Despite the beautiful garments she
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At the start of the book‚ Hester is a young woman with a newborn baby. She has been alone in New England for the past two years because her husband‚ a wealthy scholar from England‚ sent her ahead to the Massachusetts Bay Colony while he took care of business at home. The arrival of a baby was sufficient evidence to convict her of adultery. It is difficult to know what kind of person Hester was before the book begins. However‚ the book opens with her sudden acknowledgment of shame as she stands before
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A Walk in the Forest Nathaniel Hawthorne creates a revolutionary narrative in his piece‚ The Scarlet Letter through his layering of themes‚ symbols and literary devices. Hawthorne depicts the isolation that Hester and Pearl endure by using imagery to describe the road on which they are walking. He uses atmospherical medium to illuminate Hester’s sin and how it isolates her from sunshine. He uses moral ambiguity to show Pearl’s lack of sin‚ and how it isolates her from her mother‚ who has sinned
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