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    Whether it is in symbolism or dialogue; speculation‚ imagination‚ freedom from judgment‚ and non-conformity are all used in the Scarlet Letter. These can be used to prove that Hawthorne’s assessment of The Scarlet Letter being a work of romanticism was correct. In the Scarlet letter‚ it displays uses of values and intuition over reasoning through Pearls questioning of Dimmesdale‚ and in Hester’s concerns about Chillingworth. From the beginning Pearl always asks her mother why Dimmesdale always holds

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    “Hook”. Arthur Miller gives us insight through his novel‚ The Crucible. Set in 1692‚ Massachusetts‚ the characters in the story are put through trials to prove their integrity‚ loyalty‚ and conspicuously‚ what is valuable to them; their name. Also‚ Arthur Miller establish the characters in a society where the law bounds to the bible‚ and in which‚ the society drastically takes a turn into chaos when people commence‚ and accuse others of witchery. This not merely puts the villager’s viability at

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    Some of the causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials are boredom‚ strong believe in occult‚ disputes/rivalries or personal differences‚ ergot poisoning‚ and a cold weather theory. After the girls were caught dancing in the woods and Parris saw everything that’s when everything started. Parris starts to question the girls and they come up with wild acquisitions‚ to avoid trouble. I feel like boredom took toll on the girls because is in the late 1600’s they didn’t have nothing better to do. So I feel

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    Salem of Massachusetts in 1692 was the residence of a Puritan society accompanied by severe ethics. Along the troubles of trying to preserve agriculture in a cruel climate escorted by uneven ground‚ Salem also encountered political anarchy as well as economic disorder. In this specific society‚ a party of young women condemned an Indian slave girl of witchcraft. She‚ Tituba‚ confessed due to the harassment from the judiciary administration. Her confession stimulated a search for witches that left

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    Women are wicked. In King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green. Women in this book are wicked because they are murders‚ seductresses‚ and cheaters. In this book women are cheaters especially Guinevere “ . . . ‘Good sir knight ‚ I require you in the forest near by’ ” (p.231). Guinevere wants Lancelot to meet her in the forest where nobody will be able to see what happens between them. She cheats on King Arthur for the last time when when she and Lancelot get caught in

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    Some major themes of Nathaniel Hawthorne used in Young Goodman Brown were that everyone has their own walk with the devil‚ some choose to continue on their walk of temptation and others choose to keep on the right path. Also‚ he symbolically expresses that men need to hold on to their faith. Both of these themes can apply in life everywhere‚ everyone has a secret. When Goodman Brown chooses to take his walk with the devil he does it purely out of curiosity. During his walk he encounters people from

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    Desdemona influences Othello’s life because she keeps him calm. She was a young‚ beautiful woman that fell in love with a black forty year old man 1.2.66‚ 2.3.18. He was amazed by her; someone that pretty had loved someone as ugly and old as he. He had so much love for her and respected her so much that he done everything she asked of him. He placed her on a pedestal higher than himself. Othello thought of Desdemona as a very important person. He referred to her as a monumental alabaster (the finest

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    "Coventry Carol" is an English lullaby sung in the 16th century mystery play The Pageant of the Shearman and Tailors. It tells the tale of Mothers mourning the soon deaths of their children during the Massacre of the Innocents‚ a biblical and historical event where all infants under the age of two in Bethlehem were killed. The Coral itself is a Renaissance piece as it contains the stylistic aspects of the time period such as: cantus firmus‚ counterpoint‚ as well as Picardy 3rd. Cantus firmus‚ the

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    Two literary pieces by Robert Browning gave chilling imprints upon the readers. Reading the two text titled My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover are about two women killed by their partners. They are similar in that fact‚ but different in another. A main contrast is the way the women were killed. In Duchess‚ we do not know exactly how the duchess died; while in Lover‚ every detail is shared. Another important contrast is the difference in motive. Why did these men kill the women they ‘loved?’ In

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    Tituba and parris are to blame for starting the hysteria because without parris telling everyone about the dancing and if tituba had not told people she was working with the devil people’s suspicion eventually would had worn off. When parris says “and what shall i say to them? That my daughter and niece i discovered dancing like heathens in the forest?” (p.10). He is trying to figure out what really happened in the woods. When she doesn’t tell him the truth the news of the dancing somehow slips out

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