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    M. Nunziante Period 3 AP Language Examine the significance of Hester Prynne. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne reveals that although society attempts to confine people‚ those with inner strength are able to break free of their restrictive labels. Even though the public shunned Hester and forced her into solitude‚ she still‚ at the end of her “term of confinement”‚ found a way to overcome society’s stereotypes. Hester’s inner strength allowed her to rise above the

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    GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING AANTEKENINGEN BOEK Thesis; During the story the main character Griet changes a lot in her behaviour and attitude towards her environment. Information | Page | Quote | The shiness of Griet in the beginning towards Vermeer | 5 | ‘No‚ Sir’ I hesitated. I could not say why I had laid out the vegetables as I did. I simply set them as I felt they should be‚ but I was too frightened to say so to a gentleman’ | | | ‘I did not want him to think I was idle’ | She

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    humiliated people to make them think twice before committing a sin. For example‚ they made her wear a letter A on her chest for seven years. Hester didn’t hide from her shame or run from her problems. I felt that she dealt with it in a helpful servant type way. Hawthorne stated “So strong was Hester Prynne‚ with a woman’s strength.” Hester dealt with her guilt wisely and in an unselfish way. For example‚ she donated the excess of her wages to the needy people in her town. In addition

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    Chapter 6: “Pearl” 1. Hawthorne uses the quote‚ “Man had marked this woman’s sin by a scarlet letter‚ which has such potent and disastrous efficacy that no human sympathy could reach her‚ save it were sinful like herself. God‚ as a direct consequence of sin which man thus punished‚ had given her a lovely child‚ whose place was on that same dishonored bosom‚ to connect her parent forever with the peace and descent of mortals‚ and to be finally a blessed soul in heaven.” (86)‚ to contrast how man views

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    The Symbolism of Pearl In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne symbolizes Pearl as four main things. First‚ the chaos inside of Hester. Second‚ the hidden sin of her parents. Third‚ a last hope for Dimmesdale. Fourth‚ a chance to start a better life. Lastly‚ the scarlet letter itself. Pearl is often described as an elf-child because of her misbehavior. She often screams when spoken to by strangers or teased by other children. Pearl lashes out when something displeases her when she is the age of three

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    Everyone sins. How people react to the consequences of those sins differs. Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale have to deal with the scrutiny and criticism from the community and themselves after committing the sin of adultery. Nathaniel Hawthorne shows how differently they are shunned. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the contrasting characters Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to develop both sides of public vs private sin to show how different people deal with guilt

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    Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter shows the ways of the Puritans and their beliefs through symbolism numerous times throughout the novel. In his novel‚ Hawthorne displays how one letter could drastically change someone’s life. The main character‚ Hester Prynne is forced to wear the scarlet letter which symbolized the sin of

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    Causes of Pearl Harbor "There is no choice left but to fight and break the iron chains strangling Japan" (Spector 76) Admiral Nagano Osami gave this statement after finding no other way to resolve relations between the United States and Japan. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the only way Japan sought to break away from the United States oppression of the Japanese people. Poor relations between Japan and America were both economical and political; this caused the attack on Pearl Harbor. The

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    3‚500 of your comrades are dead. Pearl Harbor is a gigantic naval station located just off the coast of Honolulu‚ Hawaii‚ that had to suffer this feight that came by and surprised everyone. The life changing event of the bombing of Pearl Harbor surprised our nation with this attack and would start some very rough years ahead for our country. First‚ even though Pearl harbor is remembered for being bombed it is known for much more back then and today. Today‚ Pearl Harbor serves as the headquarters

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    daughter‚ Pearl‚ functions primarily as a symbol. She is quite young during most of the events of this novel—when Dimmesdale dies she is only seven years old—and her real importance lies in her ability to provoke the adult characters in the book. She asks them pointed questions and draws their attention‚ and the reader’s‚ to the denied or overlooked truths of the adult world. In general‚ children in The Scarlet Letter are portrayed as more perceptive and more honest than adults‚ and Pearl is the most

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