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    In the beginning of the book Hester Prynne is a very kind woman. She ended up making a poor decision that will affect the rest of her life. Its life everyone makes mistakes we’re all human.But what shes does is something she will have to live with for the rest of her life and never be able to take it back.In this book The Scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone.Hester is the main character‚and let’s get to the point;adulteress. In the beginning of the book‚Hester is forced to marry Roger Chillingworth

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    cheat‚ to look into an eye that recognizes me for what I am!’” (148) Hester and Dimmesdale meet at the forest and have a conversation. Dimmesdale has been lying to the church officials and to the townspeople for the sin he has committed for seven years. To the townspeople‚ he is a respectable minister loved by everyone‚ but in reality‚ he is a sinner. Provided that‚ Dimmesdale feels relief speaking to Hester. “’We are not‚ Hester‚ the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted

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    How does Oscar Wilde make Hester and Mrs Arbuthnot contrasting characters? Oscar Wilde has many characters through ‘A Woman of No Importance’ that have contrasting personalities and backgrounds‚ but the characters with a clear‚ most definite contrast are Hester and Mrs Arbuthnot. Mrs Arbuthnot is known to the readers of the play and the characters in the play as a ‘fallen woman’. She has run off with at least two men whilst married and has now developed a reputation with the rest of the community

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    From Romantic to Victorian The Victorian Age came after the Romantic Age and took place between the years of 1832 and 1901. Throughout the Romantic Age many authors/poets concentrated and focused on the rights of the people‚ as well as the idea of individualism. We are going to see how those beliefs helped spring into the Victorian Age. There are three main things concerning the Victorians during this specific time period: evolution‚ industrialism‚ and women. Along with these three comes doubt

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    result will ultimately rise in a "morally perfect‚" but hypocritical society. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter‚ Hester Prynne was created as a self-reliant character that indirectly exploits the flaws and hypocrisy of Puritan society‚ as well as to prove Hester as a survivor. In addition to Hester and self-reliance‚ Hawthorne reveals the hypocrisy of Puritan society. Hester is a symbol of self-reliance because she resumes wearing the scarlet letter "A‚" a symbol of her adulterous act and

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    In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne is the protagonist. Hester is a good person who made a bad decision‚ which makes her a relatable character regardless of the year this book is read in. Hester is the protagonist‚ but at times she does seem more like a victim than heroine. “[Hester] was tall‚ with a figure of perfect elegance‚ on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair‚ so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam‚ and a face which‚ besides being

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    Rationalist Vs. Romantics

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    Authors during the Revolution were classified as either rationalist or romantic‚ but whether they were classified as rationalist or romantic depended on their style of writing. Rationalist and romantic authors wrote smiliarly using the same techniques‚ but they also were different from each other. A rationalist author during this time period was Patrick Henry. In the Virginia Convention of 1775‚ Henry stood up and gave a speech. Its subject was about Independence that they need from Great Britain

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    Hester Prynne and Abigail Williams The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is a novel about a young women named Hester Prynne who is forced to bear a scarlet A on her breast for commiting the sin of adultury. For violating the strict puritian religion‚ she is isolated from society‚ with the product of her sin‚ her daughter Pearl. She is greatly critizised and humiliated by the townspeople. Hester did not commit the sin alone‚ but her lover is at fault as well. He remains silent until guilt

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    Romantic partners typically idealize honesty and see lying as manipulative and unacceptable‚ (Roggensack‚ Sillars‚ 2013‚ pg. 001). For a partner in this type of situation‚ knowing but not wanting to face the facts‚ tends to not be knowledge that recipient of the deception relishes‚ because there are relationship rules that should be clearly conveyed‚ understood‚ and followed. When rules governing a relationship are unclear‚ no respected‚ not agreed upon fully by both parties‚ are contradicting‚

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    Music: The Romantic Era

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    The Romantic Era was truly discovered by Beethoven. He paved the way for the up and coming composers of music by starting to introduce new instruments to the and taking far more risks that anyone of his time or prior to it. The Romantic Era also brought back the use of vocals to accompany music‚ although the use of the piano was still more common than any other single instrument. This Era featured several famous composers that are still to this day important to our culture‚ yet some of these musicians

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