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    Madame Defarge is a murderer and brutal human being. She has killed many people and will keep killing no matter who tries to stop her. Madame Defarge has a very revengeful mind and doesn’t think about anyone but herself. I hate that Madame Defarge thinks that she has all the power and can do whatever she wants. She doesn’t take anyone’s feelings into consideration and just does what she feels like doing even if it hurts the people around her. No one knows much about Madame Defarge because she is

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    first time. With his fascination with Madame Butterfly‚ Gallimard fell in love with Song at the first sight‚ because he believed that Song was his submissive Madame butterfly. Days later‚ Gallimard was invited to Song’s apartment and began a love affair with Song. During this period‚ Gallimard fall into a fantasy which he thought he was Pinkerton‚ the naval officer in Madame Butterfly‚ and Song was his butterfly‚ the spoony Japanese woman Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. However‚ Song‚ as a Peking

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    Biblioghaphy______________________________________________________________11 DEFINTIONS OF SIN I selected the word “sin” in Isaiah 53:5. This word would appear to be the central theme around the passage. There would seem to be certain meanings to this word which I want to understand the word and its usage in this passage correctly. חָטָא- châṭâ- G/K 10276: Strong 2398. This word translated has a meaning as follows sin‚ to sin‚ to miss the way of the mark. It is understood that the phrase missing the mark

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    community. Throughout the book you can see the theme of how sin changes lives appear in almost every chapter and is an important driving factor behind the plot. This theme is shown through the actions of the three main characters: Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ and Roger Chillingworth. These three characters act in this novel as the personification of sin in three different types of sin. A different sin by each of the main characters. The sin made by Hester Prynne is one that is

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    The bloodshed and rallying cries of a revolution transcend beyond all barriers of time‚ often striking a chord with the most underrepresented and disadvantaged citizens of a nation. With enough backing‚ fringe ideas wield the ability to force their way into the minds of the populace‚ providing strength to the once-languished. Using A Tale of Two Cities‚ influential author of numerous classic works‚ Charles Dickens‚ illustrates the gaping holes in rhetoric and action widely disregarded during the

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    A Pocket Full of Sin In “Go Tell It to the Mountain”‚ John Grimes has to constantly deal with sin‚ an idea that is constant in the world around him. Additionally‚ sin is a driving force for the story‚ where every character has evolved from sin. One person’s sin is another person’s burden‚ and another person’s sin is another’s happiness. Sin can also be used as a shield in order to protect a loved one. This book is a constant struggle between each person’s sin and how they combat it. Within the

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    Sin and its Effects on an Individual The calm and erudite physician removes the slumbering minister’s clothing‚ and‚ upon witnessing the dark secret on the minister’s bare chest‚ becomes engulfed in vengeful delight. The leech‚ unable to contain his ecstasy‚ releases it in a cathartic dance as he flails and sways like a madman. In The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne argues that sin has detrimental and severe lasting effects on one’s life. Through the use of third person omniscient point of view

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    In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the author makes it clear the main idea is sin and guilt. In the puritan world sin is typically punished with death or embarrassment. Embarrassment is the punishment Hester Prynne was punished with. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses symbols throughout the book to support the main idea. Three symbols in The Scarlet Letter that supports this main idea is: The letter “A‚” Hester’s daughter Pearl‚ and colors. The most obvious symbol is the scarlet letter A

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    Madame Defarge is a character in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities that will live forever in the reader’s memory due to her desire for revolution and thirst for vengeance. Madame Defarge is so driven for vengeance over the Evremonde family and the French aristocrats that have wronged the poor citizens in France. One reason Madame Defarge will always always stay in the mind of the reader is how Madame records people’s names‚ descriptions‚ and history in her knitting. The author writes “It would

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    people are born with sin. Subsequently‚ they keep a strict eye over their community as well as themselves. Correspondingly‚ depending on how severe a sin is‚ it may be punishable by death. Hester is spared by the Puritans because they believe that she will serve as a living sermon of sin. Hester must wear a scarlet letter on her chest for the entirety of her life to make up for her punishment. These events convey how the overall theme of the book stands as the punishment of sin and overcoming the pressure

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