Misery

Scarlet Letter by accepting to live with a lie, yet in the end he spoke the truth.The theme Hawthorne illustrates reflects upon Arthur Dimmesdale’s selfishness that through secrecy causes him to feel guilty causing him to suffering and drown in eternal misery. However, through trials and subsequent changes leads the truth to be exposed no matter how hard he tries to hide it, eventually comes out. Proven a lie will always find a way out and if kept a secret it will only cause pain and torment. …

which is exhibited through the actions of Tess’s parents, Alec d 'Urberville, Angel Clare, and the community itself. Tess’s parents are Hardy’s representation of the extent that society can infiltrate and harm Tess. They inadvertently started Tess’s misery because they believed…

Gioia, 2013). C.H. Reeves (1952) points out that Aristotle first spoke about his theory on tragedy in general in “Poetics”. Aristotle asserts a true tragic hero is not: A good man going from happiness to misery, a bad man from misery to happiness or an extremely bad man from happiness into misery (Reeves,…

history. The Chilam Balam of Chumayel contains details of the overall agony inflicted by the Spanish on the native populations in excerpts such as “When misery came, when Christianity came…for this indeed was the beginning of misery for us”6. This account also adds “The beginning of tribute…the beginning of village strife…the beginning of misery and affliction” . These excerpts powerfully demonstrate that there was a very dark side to these conquerors. Howard Zinn was trying to convey the idea…

He has received this because he led him and his father out of misery and had revenge on his brother. If Edgar had not taken responsibility earlier on in the play, he wouldn’t have lived to confront his brother about betraying him and his father. Although Gloucester dies in the end, without the help from Edgar, Gloucester…

Oedipus The Tragic Hero Oedipus, Sophocles’ most well-known tragic heroes in the history of playwright set the standard for writing Greek tragedies. According to Aristotle, who defined tragedy as a story that begins with the protagonist being someone who is extraordinary compared to the typical heroes that audience are used to or a great hero’s reversal of fortune. The character’s personality leads to his or her own downfall at the end resulting in a more terrifying ending. Aristotle admired…

Sam Killermann once said, “If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are” (Killermann). This meaningful quote pertains to Dimmesdale and his personal interpretation of justice. Dimmesdale was respectable and upright, a G-d fearer and priest, an elite and a main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. When Dimmesdale realized he committed an unjust action, Dimmesdale attempted to keep other’s…

T is fascinated with an old house that survived the Blitz during World War II. As you know, T convinces his gang to destroy the house with him while Old Misery is away. This evil in this is pretty self explanatory with T, but later he is confronted by Blackie. Blackie asks, “You hate him a lot?” T fires back with, “Of course I don’t hate him. There’d be no fun in that.” This right here to me is where evil…

Salvador Dali was an artist born on May 11, 1904 in Figueres, Spain. He was the third Salvador Dali after his father and brother, who died 9 months before Dali's own birth due to meningitis. Dali lived in the shadow of his brother all of his life. This had a great impact on his artwork. A lot of his works were an expression of how he felt towards his brother. These works included deterioration, degeneration, and other disturbing images. Dali began painting at the age of 10 and some of his more…

The quest of identity was caused by the act of human will in response to fate, which is another prominent theme in this playwright. The reason for the King Laius tries to change his fate of dying by the hand of his son and marrying his wife, Jocasta, by abandoning him on the mountains of Cithaeron to die. Fate keeps Oedipus alive as the shepherd ordered to leave him on the mountain pities him, and Oedipus ends up being adopted by King Polybus and Queen Merope of Corinth. Oedipus grows up and…