The Scarlet Letter and the Modern Media: Synthesis and Analysis Writing Read the cartoons below. Write down what each cartoonist and editor believes. What are the writer’s attitudes (tone) toward the subjects or characters in the cartoons? What rhetorical devices or literary elements are they using to create their meaning. Come to class with your ideas listed and be prepared to discuss your own ideas in a small group. Literary Style and Themes Hawthorne’s work belongs to Romanticism‚ an
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Literature have their own answers to the question. Independence is a concept with a constantly changing‚ dynamic description. Three characters that reflect the developing idea of independence are Hester Prynne‚ Jim‚ and Walter Lee Younger. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel about a Puritan community that shuns Hester Prynne for doing what she believes makes her independent. Hester Prynne’s original grasp of what independence means is that it means living on
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The Scarlet Letter characters struggle to accept their own personal identities. Hester embodies the scarlet letter‚ while Dimmesdale tries to break his stereotypical religious identity. By wearing the scarlet letter‚ Salem publically shames Hester. If she leaves the town‚ then she could remove the A‚ but instead she stays. She could go away with her daughter Pearl and have a completely normal life. She refuses to leave because the letter has become her identity‚ and she uses its power. Some people
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Perhaps the foremost purpose of The Scarlet Letter is to illustrate the difference between shaming someone in public and allowing him or her to suffer the consequences of an unjust act privately. According to the legal statutes at the time and the prevailing sentiment of keeping in accordance with a strict interpretation of the Bible‚ adultery was a capital sin that required the execution of both adulterer and adulteress--or at the very least‚ severe public corporal punishment. Indeed‚ even if the
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Andrea The Scarlet Letter-Analysis of chapters 13 & 14 In Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The Scarlet Letter Chapters 13 and 14 has a real importance to the novel. One of Hawthorne’s key ideas in the two chapters is the change of Hester. Hawthorne is also trying to emphasis the theme element of identity. The bound of Humanity is also of great value to the book. The thematic elements that are present in Chapters 13 and 14 help create the importance of Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ The scarlet Letter. Throughout the
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We started listing names that would do something like that and we came up with these. Mrs.white‚ Colonel Mustard‚ Professor plum‚ Mrs. Peacock‚ Mr. Green‚ and Miss scarlet. Yeah yeah‚ we know these people are older than us but we couldn’t figure out any high schooler that would do such a crime. So after that we went back to the crime scene were the murder happened. We made it there to find nothing‚ we couldn’t find
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occurred. He further comments that even if that is not the reason‚ Hester may have been inclined to remain in Boston because her secret lover still lived there. Hester’s skill at needlework‚ earlier shown in the fine way that she displayed the scarlet letter‚ allows her to maintain a fairly stable lifestyle. However‚ her reputation as an outcast and loner causes a certain aura to be cast around her. Thus‚ Hawthorne points out that young children often crept up to her house to spy on her while she
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The Productivity of Peace In two shining examples of rhetorical power “A letter to a Birmingham Jail” and “Malcom X’s debate at the Oxford Union” The two great leaders of the civil rights movement outline their platforms and justify their philosophies in regards to how the movement should go about achieving societal change. Although the civil rights movement was brought to national attention by the combined work of MLK and Malcom X‚ the rhetorical strategies employed by the two are quite different
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Hester’s colors in appearance are seen as sinful‚ dark‚ and Puritan related and in contrast Hawthorne reveals Pearls colors in appearance which unveil innocence and life as well as colors that tie in with the scarlet letter which by the Puritans is viewed as sinful colors. Hawthorne chooses for Pearl to freely express her true self and not wear colors that convey facades put on her by her mother Hester and the rest of society. As for the rest of the community‚ made
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Authors use many different types of rhetoric and rhetorical devices to develop their arguments and as a means of convincing others. In the letter written to her son‚ John Quincy Adams‚ Abigail Adams uses two rhetorical devices in an attempt to ensure that her son is not displeased with her after she encourages him to travel abroad with his father. Abigail uses logos to appeal to his sense of logic as well as pathos to appeal to his emotions. Abigail’s main use of logos is to point out that her
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