Confirmation Letter Essay

A character within a novel can either change positively or negatively. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, author Nathaniel Hawthorne makes use of character development technique to show how each individual changes as the novel progresses. Through the description of a character from the beginning and their development at the end of the novel, the character becomes real. This is apparent in the transgression of Hester Prynne and Pearl in the short novel. Although Pearl is portrayed to have been…

“It was from that moment I began to hate them, and my hate is still the only link between us today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first of the faces of hell and death.” Chapter #1 Page #17 This quote represents the chapter by showing how the things occurring around Elie are not right. These are also some of Elie’s first signs of real, negative emotion towards someone and how he is unhappy with the situation. It reveals the first steps of their oppression and how unjust they are…

Universal Truths of the Human Condition The Scarlet Letter, although written in the 1850’s, continues to speak truly about many universal truths of the human condition. The Novel displays all-consuming effects of guilt on a sinner and how it can be worse than the punishment itself, although religion can guide a person, it can not guide a government, and that no person is without sin. As displayed by Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, guilt can affect a person worse than the punishment for the crime.…

Grendel Hatred is a beautiful thing. It can make one grow from being so innocent and curious to cruel and evil. Most creatures grow with love like little plants, while I was grown with hate. Growing up, I didn’t know other creatures existed besides my mother, why you might ask? You see, we are forced to pay for someone else’s sin, even though we are innocent. Therefore, my mother and I were banished to a region where even demons are afraid to enter. Which explains why I am the demon I am today…

impressive masquerade of who they really are as a person. In Shirley Jackson’s short story The Possibility Of Evil a quaint town is watched over by a Matriarchal who tries to eliminate the “evil” the town has been afflicted with by sending out offensive letters that insult the way the town people live their lives. Ms. Stanrgeworth’s quest to emancipate the town from the towns evils has really only caused more problems and deluded her mind into thinking she has assisted her town. Ms.…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born July 4th, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. His father died in 1808 of yellow fever when Hawthorne was only four years old. Hawthorne comes from a long line of Puritan ancestors, one of participated in the Salem Witch Trials as one of the three judges. To distinguish himself from his family tree , Hawthorne added a “w” to the then “Hathorne.” Hawthorne was encouraged to attend Bowdoin College in 1821. While there, he met poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, future U.S Navy…

she always thought she knew more about others and thought they were all acting different. At the end of the story it was revealed that Miss Strangeworth would send letters to everybody in the town that she thought had problems she didn’t like. Some people in the town eventually uncovered her identity and as revenge they sent her a letter that said they had destroyed her precious flowers that had been with her family for years; her punishment in the end did fit the crime because of all the drama…

phone. Obstacles make a person stronger and provide them with the wisdom they need to triumph. In ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’, Huck Finn is a motherless child and is trying to escape his drunk and abusive father, Hester Prynne in ‘The Scarlet Letter’ commits a sin so seemingly horrifying that she can now only live a life of public shame and loneliness, and Anthem’s Equality 7-2521 has a burning curiosity to know more than what is given to him which almost gets him killed. Throughout these…

Voltaire and his works came after Molière and his works. Like Molière, Voltaire criticized the church, but rather through hidden messages in plays and books, he explicitly attacked the church and the government of France in his books, and is one of the people who is credited for kicking off the French Revolution. Voltaire’s most famous work is his satire Candide, which like Molière’s Tartuffe, was widely banned because it made fun of religion and the government. While both Molière and Voltaire…

Nathaniel Hawthorne depicted the Puritan life in a New England town throughout the novel The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne not just presented an observation but also criticism of the Puritan belief system. The novel was set during the 17th century and was historically accurate with the migration of Europeans to what eventually became the town of New England. The puritans came to the United States for religious freedom. They had strict beliefs in regards to society, religion and how the family…