Confirmation Letter Essay

The image Fringe by Rebecca Belmore and Sammy Baloji’s, Untitled from the Memoire Series are both similar and different. To begin with, Fringe is an image in which an aboriginal woman is shown with her back to the audience, with a deep red slash running from her right shoulder to her left hip. The figure in Fringe also expresses to the viewer that the woman has not been destroyed but she is indeed wounded, but she is healing. The image is a visual record of how deep is the cut of the…

The matter surrounding the virginity of women in the book Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez conveys a message of the value of purity and the unrecognized power of the community’s women through Angela Vicario's refusal to fake her deflowering on her wedding night. The prominent irony that accompanies the town's strong stance on women’s virginity before marriage is perpetuated by the women in the town through their practice of faking virginity in order to keep the structure…

and had a child while still being married to her long, lost husband. As a punishment of this sin, Hester has to stand in front of the whole town on a scaffold while holding her baby, Pearl, as described in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne uses items such as the scaffold and the forest to symbolize different turning points in the novel as well as to describe how Puritan society was in the 1600s. The scaffold plays a huge role in the novel by symbolizing as sin and shame…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne displays how one sin can ruin the lives of many. His purpose is to show how holding in a sin and not being truthful can haunt you and lead to your end. Hawthorne uses several rhetorical device to convey this message, including: antithesis, anaphora, and metaphor. Throughout the text, antithesis is commonly used, especially comparing life and death. For example, Dimmesdale states “Many, many poor soul hath given its confidence to me, not only…

Narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson is considered as a seminal American work in the literary genre of captivity narratives, and this story happened during the Philips war from 1675 to 1678. The author of the book, Mary Rowlandson successfully described her spiritual journeys and redemption during she was captured by using symbolism and allusions. From my point of view, she had done a great job on literary elements. The first edition of the book comes out in 1682. In her work, Mary…

Both “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Benét and “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving are classic short stories which provide commentary on spirituality, religion, traditions, and more. They provide insight into the way people from the respective eras of their publications viewed issues such as the devil and redemption. Despite these similarities, some key differences exist between “The Devil and Tom Walker” and “The Devil and Daniel Webster.” These differences chiefly lie…

“The Scarlet Letter” was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, the actual story takes places in the 1600’s in a Puritan society. Hawthorne was an anti-transcendentalist. An anti-transcendentalist means that humans are naturally evil , society keeps them in check and nature is evil. Hawthorne used symbols throughout the story to represent his ideas, symbols are a representation of qualities or ideas. In his novel “The Scarlet Letter”, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the symbolism of the wild rosebush,…

In the book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor, Stacey Logan is trying to figure out who should be a better friend, TJ, or Jeremy. Stacey should be friends with Jeremy because T.J. lies constantly, doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, and he takes advantage of others. First of all, it can be true that Jeremy may not be trustworthy. But, it is easy to recall that TJ can be caught lying multiple times throughout the book. The text states, “When we got outside. T.J.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter portrays the ramifications of a forbidden romance: a romance built around the complications of marriage, sin, and societal positions. As remarked on by Hawthorne, these ramifications solidify each character in the novel as victims to their own frailties, resulting in immeasurable sorrow for everyone. As a result of Hester Prynne's actions and his own, Roger Chillingworth succumbs to a state of desolation where he experiences emasculation and a loss of…

The novel portrays a shame society and the mothers and the other female characters repeatedly reinforce it. For instance, when Fatima elopes with a man from a different community, not only is she ostracized for it beyond her death but her mother too is blamed and isolated from the community. All the girls are repeatedly informed to behave and dress in a certain way so as to not bring shame upon the family name. Misogyny is palpable in various instances of the novel and seems to have been…