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    John took such pride in his name and felt like signing the confession paper would be like signing to a lie. When wrestling with whether or not he should falsely confess, he wails, “I have given you my soul; leave me my name” (miller 207)! First of all, a lot of people use to admire John and follow what he did, if…

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    Hester suffer through her public shame without him and putting up a false image of himself to the public. Throughout the novel, Dimmesdale feels so terribly about the situation, he has to live with a so-called doctor, Roger Chillingworth to give him the medical attention that he needs, confirming that the shame had made him physically ill. At the end of the novel, Dimmesdale confesses, however he dies shortly after his confession to show that because Dimmesdale waits almost a decade to share his…

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    Dissension and Destruction of Arthur Dimmesdale The obligation or responsibility imposed on a person in whom confidence or authority is placed could be broken by those who are charlatans and ingenuine. These are the type of individuals the reader will encounter in the American classic The Scarlet Letter. Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts the conflict between outer appearance and inner reality through the internal dissension of the character Arthur Dimmesdale who struggles with day to day life while…

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    Bob's Interview Case Study

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    to be a threat to the employees whom he works within the same organization. He constantly denies the allegations and justifies his suspicious conduct. As a psychologist, interviewing bob will require a plan on how to conduct the whole process of confession. The main…

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    approaches them, and tells them of the messenger, Death. Both Kindred and Cousin give reasons they cannot go as well. Cousin even goes as far as saying he has an injured toe. Phoebe Spinrad said in her book “The Last Temptation of Everyman,” “Even the false friends have a cautionary role, showing the audience how not to behave at the deathbed. Not only do they fail to give spiritual advice, but also they sometimes even tempt Everyman to commit a few last sins (Fellowship, Kindred) or encourage…

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    Puritan Gender Roles

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    Introduction Early Puritans established many small towns in the new frontier which came to be known as New England. In these new towns, small commonwealths, otherwise known as families, created the framework for everyday life. The basic structure of a Puritan family was patriarchal. This type of structure creates very defined gender roles in a society. All of the governmental, ideological, and social values of a society must mirror the structures of each other in order for the society to…

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    In The Crucible, Arthur Miller displays various personalities and traits through his characters. Each person plays a distinctive niche and affects the story in a unique way due to their differences. Although John and Elizabeth Proctor are married, they have contrasting characteristics; John is courageous and inconsiderate, and Elizabeth is jealous and loving. John Proctor is the protagonist of The Crucible. He is around thirty years old, lives in the small town of Salem, Massachusetts, and has…

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    Cordelia In King Lear

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    King Lear is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous works and highly regarded as quite possibly his greatest play written if not one of the most tragic he's written. The original story that Shakespeare based his play off of is derived from the legend of Lair of Britain and is not nearly as tragic as the King Lear adaptation. The play depicts the main character King Lear and his decent into madness as he gives his kingdom away to his daughters. In comparison to her sisters, Cordelia, the…

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    The Piteseti Experiment

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    The Piteşti Experiment The word “Gulag” immediately conjures images of primitive concentration camps, buried deep in Siberia; yet, there were camps in other communist countries that rivalled, and even exceeded, Russian camps in intensity, like the Jilava prison and Piteşti prison in Romania. These names may mean nothing to many in the Western world, but to Eastern Europeans represent one of the darkest pages in their history. According to Sorin Iliesiu (2005), the Piteşti prison was a…

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    others: Mistress Hibbins, “the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate” (I:49) and the witch of Boston. Hibbins’ primary functions in the novel are to reveal to the reader what might have become of the protagonist, Hester Prynne, and to unveil the false virtue hidden in the puritan regime. Hawthorne uses Hibbins, specifically, to reveal this defect because “alone among the women of this rigid, straight-laced society, witches…

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