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    with subjective truth‚ many believed‚ and still do‚ in its reasoning. Authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller of The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible‚ respectively‚ both write about how Puritans‚ filled with fear and ignorance‚ blindly believed the subjective statements and accusations they heard without considering the objectivity of the truth. In the Scarlet Letter‚ two opposing views of Roger Chillingworth and Mr.

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    The Good and The Evil of the Internet The onset of computers on the general population has given a boost to the Economy in the world’s market. People who weren’t much aware of the world became drawn to computers‚ which in turn brought about the Internet‚ connecting the world all over. The Internet has played a major role in the lives of people all over the world. Now‚ it is not limited to just important organizations or governments. Everyone who owns a computer is logged on to the Internet; and

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    What does the play Macbeth say about good and evil? It is in human nature to want to do bad things‚ but when you start down a path how easy is it to be lead astray? Sometimes we can let things like pride and greed get in the way of our beliefs and values. Wrongful influence can lead people down some very dark roads and eventually destroy the lives of people they love and even themselves. In William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” these elements of good and evil surface and lead to some very curious circumstances

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    her face as she holds Pearl tightly (Ch 2‚ 43). As the story evolves the townspeople show less direct disdain towards her but she still feels that they are still all looking upon her with judgement. The townspeople were less harsh with her but she still expected at any moment to be punished by the townspeople because she dealt with it for years. This is shown when Hester is standing in the crowd in front of the scaffold as Dimmesdale is about to announce the long awaited truth (Ch. 23‚ 195). The

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    their downfalls .The three main characters in Hawthorne’s story "The Scarlet Letter". The three main characters are: Dimmisdale‚ Chillingworth‚ and Hester Prynne. These three main character’s sin are no worse than each other’s. Whose sin was greater? Hawthorne believes chillingworth was not driven by anger at his own sin‚ but by the sin of Hester and Mr. Dimmisdale. An example “as he spoke‚ he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter‚ which forwith seemed to scortch into Hester’s breast‚

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    A4 23 February 2009 “It may serve‚ let us hope‚ to symbolize some sweet moral blossom‚ that may be found along the track‚ or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human fatality and sorrow‚” (Hawthorne 44). In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ light and dark are used to compare and contrast the inner nature of Hester‚ Pearl‚ and Dimmesdale‚ All of these characters describe the theme of sin and suffering‚ but throughout their own struggles they strive and succeed to end up on the other

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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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    In The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne’s purpose for the ” A” was to demonstrate the clear absence of feminism in the 1850’s when the story takes place. Hester Prynne‚ the heroine of The Scarlet Letter‚ is a strong independent woman who demonstrates wisdom. Instead of allowing herself to be a victim of her situation and Puritan contempt‚ she lives as a irrepressible woman and does not allow herself to be controlled by particular normalities. Hester committed adultery while her husband was

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    After the secret is divulged‚ the character affected by the secret are more at peace than they were previously‚ being oblivious. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Hawthorne focuses on the idea that having a secret changes a person in inconceivable ways‚ and that the only way to reverse effects of the secret being withheld is

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