Badge of shame

Any pain or shame Hester feels, she inflicts upon herself. She makes the decision to commit adultery and should take responsibility for her actions. As Hester ascends the scaffold, many townspeople notice that the scarlet letter upon her bosom is large and ornate. Hester…

These actions of atonement slowly change the perception society views her. Instead of seeing it as the sign of adultery, the Puritans see the letter pinned on her as standing for, “ Able; so strong was Hester Prynne” (106). After dealing with the shame and humiliation from the community, Hester Prynne grows as a person. This can also be seen when Pearl gives herself a replica of the scarlet letter as a sin for abusing nature. She dons the letter, but Prynne, unaware of what Pearl did, asks,”…

The Holocaust During the early 1930s, Germany experienced economic and social suffering because it was defeated in World War I by the Allies Forces, including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. Germany was forced to lose territory, reduce its armed forces, and admit guilt for the war. Germany was also mandated to pay a lot of money in fines for the wrongs they had committed, resulting in extraordinarily high inflation and tremendous unemployment. Adolf Hitler, the leader of…

In America some things left unsaid are usually less important to the public. Poor Discrimination was created by Joel Pett, an American Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist who is the leading illustrator for the Lexington- Herald. This picture informs people that the poor are in fact discriminated against, not because of their race, but because of their social class. Using a reinvented 12-step program, which is people normally attend to solve detrimental problems. This cartoon was created…

back of my head. “Wakeup sleepy head,” the last person I would’ve ever expected said, extremely creepy in a perverted old man’s cackle sort of way. “It’s time for you to see me consummate your marriage with your beautiful bride. It’s a terrible shame that she had some extremely ruff sex between the two of you the way she doesn’t like. You would think a whore like her who always had ruff sex throughout all four of her marriages would be used to it after all these years. Well, it doesn’t…

The society learns to respect and admire Hester the sinner. Through constantly helping people she gradually moves others and changes their opinions towards her. The townspeople would even note, ‘“Do you see the woman with the embroidered badge?”... “It is our Hester...who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comforting to the afflicted!”’ (Hawthorne 153). This shows that the townspeople are no longer embarrassed by her, but appreciate her. The “A” that Hester wears also no…

Gawain knots it around himself attaching it to his body as part of his armor, since the belt must be secured on him to be effective. When he finds the Green knight tricked him, he “kaght to the knot, and the kest lawsez” (2276), but adapts it as a badge of dishonor: “Loken under his lyfte arme, the lace, with a knot / In tokening he watz tane in tech of a faute” (2487-8). This example of loosening the knot parallels Gawain’s character flaw. No longer the seemingly perfect knight, he loses part…

Social philosophy claims to have prominent places for protest and mass movement. This paper is an attempt to explore these concepts in the eyes of three Modern Indian philosophers, i.e., Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. People protest for many reasons. Social psychology has lots to offer the study of protest. At the heart of every protest are grievances, such as experience of illegitimate inequality,…

So many people have centred the police officer profession with the bad eggs that appear in almost every job. Just about every job that you will look at, all has those select few that bring shame to the profession. I have heard almost every stereotype given to police officer, a few of them really get under my skin. All cops are bad, they are all trigger happy, and cops couldn’t care less about the people they swore to protect. Stereotypes are one thing they teach officers in the academy not to…

Scarlet Letter Essay In the sixteenth century Puritans traveled to the new world from England to escape the shackles of British rule. When the Puritans had finally arrived, they were able to begin a new chapter of their lives along with openly practicing their Puritan religion. Nathaniel Hawthorne, a nineteenth century writer, used his opinions and curiosity of these people to write The Scarlet Letter. In this novel Hawthorne illustrates the austere punishment and beliefs of the Puritan…