as the protagonist of the romance through Hawthorne’s use of characterization‚ conflict‚ by showing the transformation of Dimmesdale‚ and by showing that Roger Chillingworth and Dimmesdale’s own guilt oppose him. Hawthorne uses characterization throughout The Scarlet Letter to show Dimmesdale as the protagonist. The Scarlet Letter is a story of characters that have to live and deal with the effects of sin in different ways; of these characters‚ the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is the character portrayed
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The following paragraphs explore how language is used to create effects in the poem Not my Best Side by U. A. Fanthorpe‚ an ekphrastic poem that uses the free verse form arranged in three stanzas of nineteen lines each. It’s purpose is to entertain‚ which it does through the use of humour‚ using Standard English in an informal‚ conversational manner. Dramatic monologues from the characters re-tell from their own perspective‚ the historical myth of a brave knight that slays a fearsome dragon
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CORNEL WEST BIOGRAPHY Antonio D. Wells Spirituality in the Black Tradition BC SF601 March 1‚ 2012 Introduction Cornel West is considered to be our modern day W.E.B. Du Bois. He is a brilliant and provocative democratic intellectual. Cornel West is a passionate‚ loving‚ and inspiring scholarly individual‚ that I feel as a black seminary student we can gleam from him his thoughts on social economic injustices‚ racism‚ nihilism in America‚ and urban youth culture. Even though I do not agree
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The novel The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson delves into the coming of age of a boy named Ian as he experiences the trials of the transition from adolescence into adulthood. The boy from the small Northern Ontario town of Struan interacts with a variety characters in the secluded‚ tight-knit community‚ with the most prominent of them being his childhood friend Pete. Their relationship is primarily centered around the pair’s passion for fishing and nature itself‚ where it is gradually revealed
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debate after the play’s launch in Norway. People were frustrated that any woman actually could behave as Nora did; that any woman could put her own dream of understanding and knowledge above the care of her own children and husband. Krogstad is the antagonist in the play‚ but that doesn’t mean that he is the villain. Although he does torment and torture Nora about the loan‚ he does give her some sympathy‚ “Even money-lenders‚ hacks‚ well‚ a man like me‚ can have a little of what you call feeling‚ you
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The Blind Side In the context of this extraordinary real life story a boy‚ depending on which society you come from he came from “The other side of the tracks” or “The wrong side of the tracks”. The story is about a young black kid who is shuffled between the welfare system‚ Foster homes that he runs away from and the mother (a drug addict) that has let him down. Big Tony takes him along I think as leverage to get his own son in to a Catholic school because they can both play sports
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"Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚
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“That Awkward Moment When You Love the Bad Guy” A Critique of the Protagonists in the Mafia Genre: The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire Nadine Mohamed "Do you spend time with your family? Good‚ because a man that doesn ’t spend time with his family can never be a real man" ~ Don Vito Corleone The Godfather That’s really what the Mafia genre is really all about- virility and italianita (Nochimson. MP‚ 2002: 2). As a sub-genre to the Crime and Gangster genres‚ the Mafia genre is relatively
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West Nile Virus Many people have encountered a mosquito bite and the side effects that come with being bitten. However‚ many people do not know about the deadly virus that mosquito’s may carry. The West Nile virus can cause other illnesses known as West Nile fever and West Nile neuroinvasive disease. West Nile virus first came to the United States from Africa. It was initially found in a Ugandan woman in 1937. Sixty-two years later it was detected all over the states in exotic birds in zoo’s‚ from
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West Indian poetry germinated its seed in the eighteenth century. The art form in the beginnings though vibrant‚ had been nearly impossible to discover. Caribbean poetry was influenced by slavery and the British system having supreme authority over the people of the West Indies. Accustom to the written form‚ there is also an oral element to West Indian poetry. This can be seen in‚ traditional folk songs‚ sankeys‚ calypsos‚ hymns‚ chants‚ and reggae songs. This analysis deals with the work of two
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