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    December 7‚ 2012 Revenge: A Leech’s Worth Revenge can take a person’s life over. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ Roger Chillingworth begins seeking revenge and becomes completely obsessed with getting what he wants. Roger Chillingworth seeks his revenge on Arthur Dimmesdale. Roger Chillingworth is taken over by revenge; ultimately resulting in the physical and mental decay of his body and soul. In the opening of the novel Roger Chillingworth deformities are not as noticeable‚ but

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    Guilt If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it‚ did it make a sound? If a character does something wrong but no one knows that character can both gain and lose from what they have done. This happens multiple times in The Scarlet Letter. Characters commit evil deeds‚ some are caught‚ and some are not. For those that aren’t caught‚ they have a decision to make. To turn themselves in or to live their lives as if it never happened. For those that choose to live on as if it never

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    Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences. Identify and explain an emotion that Bradstreet expresses in her poem that any mother might have. Fear of how her child is going to turn out after being isolated for childhood. Read Bradstreet’s biography. List two hardships she endured throughout her life. Then‚ in at least two sentences‚ explain how these hardships might have influenced her poem "In Reference

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    Part I: Short Answer Answer the questions below on The Scarlet Letter and "In Reference to Her Children." Be sure to write your answers in complete sentences. 1. Explain the metaphor Bradstreet uses in the poem for her children. Give at least two specific examples from the poem. An example of a metaphor in Bradstreet’s poem would be that she compares her children as to baby birds that live in a nest. Another example is that she compares them growing up to a bird leaving the nest to take flight

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    Relationships through the Scarlet Letter show in many forms. In this book ‚ the most prominent secret to the reader is the one most guarded. Hester and Dimmesdale’s relationship is shown at first when they meet in the woods. Through the beginning of the book‚ Hester refuses to reveal her fellow sinner though to the reader It is obvious that they both have feelings for each other. Both torn by the separation they must endure‚ and bound by the fear of society finding out their secret‚ they hide. Hester

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    The manner in which one obtains their morals and journey through life differs; some establish morals and venture life with observances of fairness‚ while others endure the tumult to find humanity on their own. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ Hester‚ a sinful woman‚ learns to establish a new identity under her branded “A”. Hester develops a new sense of morality‚ as her story darkens to an end foreshadowed by the symbolic rose bush. The rose bush merely symbolizes the commencement of

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    Jordan Steen Mrs. Wunderl English 3 AP 18 November‚ 2013 Timed Writing: Analysis of Dimmesdale’s Rhetorical Effectiveness in The Scarlet Letter The strategies that Dimmesdale uses while juggling two rhetorical situations are his high standings in the community as a source of credibility and authority‚ his purpose as a minister to help convince the sinner to come forward and reveal the truth‚ and his ability to convey underlying messages to the reader. His effectiveness of communication

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    suffering; internal‚ external‚ and pain brought by others. These forms of suffering happen all the time in the real world and the fictional world. One of the examples of suffering in the fictional world can be seen in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book‚ The Scarlet Letter. Several people in the book are intimate with the definition of suffering‚ some suffering longer and more than others. In this book‚ the one person who had the most suffering placed on him was the well-known minister‚ Arthur Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale

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    was a small town called Everbloom. In the‚ dense‚ green‚ woods that bordered that town lived a fiery “orphan” girl named Scarlet. The 17 year old had blazing red hair‚ ash grey eyes and olive skin that‚ from being in the woods most of her life‚ faded to relatively pale. She was known to be mysterious‚ but really she was just like any other anti-social teen. Well‚ sorta. Scarlet had been an “orphan” for as long as she could remember. If you’re wondering why I’m putting quotes around the word orphan

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    "To be fully human is to balance the heart‚ the mind‚ and the spirit.” One could suggest the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ that one should not violate the sanctity of the human heart. Hester was well ahead of her time‚ and believed that love was more important than living in a lie. Dimmesdale’s theology and his inclinations render him almost incapable of action; Chillingsworth dammed himself‚ along with Dimmesdale. Hester was “frank with [Chillingsworth].”

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