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    Sabrina Chaffins AP World History Mrs. James Compare and Contrast Essay Imperial Administration in the Han Empire and Imperial Rome In the ancient times of our world‚ two very powerful empire/dynasties arose. Han china and Imperial Rome came to be two of the biggest empires that the ancient world had ever known. Both areas conquered vast areas of the eastern hemisphere‚ however their techniques differed. Although Han China and Imperial Rome were similar in that they both had strong militaries

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    book The Scarlet Letter who is an adulterer‚ who obeys everyone with her punishment. Hester is described to be a slave of her own sin. Puritans laws required Hester to be bound through her identity to her very public sin. As such‚ the puritan system is the basis for which society has discovered its punishment systems. This would include beliefs on God‚ beliefs on marriage‚ how the influence of Puritanism relates to Hawthorne’s life‚ and how Hawthorne tied these into his story The Scarlet Letter. Puritans

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    “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty‚ the only sin is getting caught.” This quote said by Hunter S Thompson perfectly details the act of adultery in the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The adultery committed by Hester’s with Reverend Dimmsdale resulted in the sinful child Pearl being born. Pearl is the visual embodiment of evil in Puritan society; Hawthorne included her in the novel to give the reader a visual representation on what the Puritans believe is evil or sinful

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    The Evolution of the Scarlet Letter At what point in time can one truly forgive themselves for a sin they have committed? A week? A month? A year? And what about peers? When do they start forgiving for a sin? Throughout The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hester Prynne learns answers to such questions after it is learned she in an adulteress. Hester’s scarlet letter serves as a reminder to herself and her peers of the sins she has committed‚ and there is a true evolution from the beginning

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    Facts 1. What two necessities‚ according to Hawthorne. must the founders of a new colony provide immediately? 2. Under whose footsteps was the rose-bush outside the prison supposed to have sprung up? 3. What is the significance of the scarlet letter A which is embroidered on Hester’s gown? Interpreting Meanings 5. What conclusion can you draw from the fact that every new colony must provide a prison and a cemetery at once? 6. How do most of the townspeople regard Hester’s punishment—as

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    The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Protagonist: The Protagonist in the Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne. Hester Prynne is a tall elegant‚ beautiful women. She has dark abundant hair and according to Nathaniel Hawthorne deep dark eyes. Hester Prynne could leave people awestruck. She was such a nice‚ kind‚ and generous woman. She was also the greatest seamstress to most. Hester Prynne is the main focus of our story The Scarlet Letter. (65) Antagonist: The antagonist in the story is Dr. Roger Chillingworth

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    Puritan society‚ the forest as the setting of chapter 18 is a place that allows Hester to escape her sins and express herself. The one result of her sin has been her alienation from society. Through the themes of alienation‚ knowledge‚ and sin‚ the scarlet letter has allowed Hester to have an isolated point of view toward human institutions‚ which resulted in her ability to think for herself and have a better understanding of natural law. This powerful passage explains the result of Hester’s sin and how

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    Scarlet Letter Analysis

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    The author of the Scarlett Letter‚ Hawthorne‚ uses many different rhetorical elements throughout the novel. Some example of Hawthorne’s elements are diction‚ syntax‚ tone‚ examples‚ analogy‚ and/or contrast. Hester Pryne is the main character of the Scarlett Letter‚ she’s the woman who has an affair with Dimmesdale and has a baby girl‚ Pearl. Dimmesdale is the pastor of the community and keeps the affair a secret‚ which would eventually cause him to have a heart attack‚ which in turn ends his

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    EXAMINE THE SCARLET LETTER AS AN OPEN-ENDED NOVEL Hawthorne wrote during the Romantic Period in American literature which lasted from 1830 to 1865. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Herman Melville‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ and Walt Whitman were his literary contemporaries. The Scarlet Letter is considered a piece of American Romantic literature because it is set in a remote past‚ the Puritan era 200 years prior to Hawthorne’s time‚ and because it deals with the interior

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    The Letter A The first symbol that is noticed in The Scarlet Letter is the actual scarlet letter‚ which is probably because it is the most important symbol in the novel. The letter is worn by a woman named Hester‚ who is sentenced to wearing the letter for the rest of her life as a symbol of Adultery. Hester was caught in the act of adultery when she had a child‚ and it wasn’t her husband’s child. What is surprising about the letter is how much it changes throughout the events of the novel. The

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