Anne Bonny

Owning up to the truth is a difficult task that most people struggle to do. It is often easier for humans to hide their wrongdoings from their peers, rather than being truthful. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, both main characters, Dimmesdale and Hester commit an act that is regarded by their peers, the Puritans, as a sin. The Puritans were a Protestant religious group that sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to practice their religion in peace. They had strict moral and…

After two years of trying, Wolsey gave up. The King forgave him, but Anne was furious. She believed that it was all his fault. She planted treason and mistrust in Henry 's mind about Wolsey. The King was easily influenced by her lies, and so Woolsey was made to appear for trial, but he died of sickness before he could show…

In the novel , The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the symbol of the letter “A” changes due to feminist ideas from adultery, to able, to angel, and finally to the independence of her daughter. Body 1 Hester was forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” on her chest to show that she had committed adultery. The scarlet letter is a sign of her sin, so that everyone is able to see and judge her for what she did. Women in this town were expected to follow strict rules and be very religious.…

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…

“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,…

Chapter 0 Protagonist/s: Marie-Laure LeBlanc/ Werner Pfennig Antagonists: Germans Time: 7th August 1944 Setting: Saint-Malo, France Summary: Hours before the bombs are dropped in the city of Saint-Malo; leaflets are dropped to inform the inhabitants to evacuate. The story’s main characters/protagonists, 16-year-old Marie-Laure and 18-year-old Werner Pfennig both have not yet evacuated. Marie-Laure is a blind girl. She is alone in her great-uncle, Etienne’s house. Werner is a soldier in the…

taken into hiding for her life. She and her family are in hiding for more than two years with another family and a dentist. During those long years, she waits in fear that everyone in the annex could found. That is what Anne Frank has had to go through. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and the other seven hide in an annex above a warehouse. They hid for their lives, because they were Jewish. As Hitler came into power, he restricted Jews and invaded other countries. Due to this, World War ll had…

What is your impression on how puritan world view is taken up and treated by Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter? The Scarlet Letter is an indictment on the follies of the puritans featuring the rigid values and beliefs of the society. Hawthorne criticizes various aspects of the puritan confraternity through the lives of the characters and the punishsment one is made to undergo because of the sin committed. Hawthorne took the puritan view seriously in the scarlet letter by depicting the gender…

England was under Queen Elizabeth’s I’s reign under the 1590s. She had been on the thrown since 1558 and kept the crown until her death in 1603. The era she ruled is known as the Elizabethan era, and it was a period of relative peace, commercial and imperial expansions and growing national confidence. But it was also a period that was overshadowed by the on-going religious resistance that were often extreme, sometimes violent. It was a tough life in London during the 1500s. We may not know if…

This book was a diary that was about the life of a young girl named Anne Frank. On Anne Frank thirteenth birthday her parents gave her a diary where she would confide all her secret thoughts. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who family was in danger, so they went into hiding during the World War II in a little section of Anne's father office building. For two years, eight people lived in the Secret Annex. The eight people were Anne, Edith, Otto, and Margot Frank, along with the Frank family was…