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…
have different plots, types of characters and conclusions. However, it is possible to make a comparison and find both similarities and differences in these stories. Events in the Young Goodman Brown took place in 17th century. The young, pious husband from Salem went through the forest to a mysterious meeting. He was temporally accompanied by a mysterious man who appeared to be the Devil or a powerful demon. The…
Comparison between “The Crucible” and “The Scarlet Letter” “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Crucible” written by Arthur Miller are two pieces of literature written around the same era. They were written in the early days of the Massachusetts colony. Both of the pieces of literature have many similarities including the theme, setting, conflicts, and some major plot elements. But the two pieces of literature are also very different. They both use have a common theme…
In Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, “The Minister’s Black Veil”, there are several themes, but the most ordinary and prominent is that everyone has secrets and sorrows hidden from others. In the story, the main character, Reverend Hooper, is a minister in a small Puritan community in Milford. The minister is described as wearing two folds of black crape, which entirely conceals his facial features other than his mouth and chin (240). This veil symbolizes many things, but most people assume that…
of the village. “But the strangest part of the affair is the effect of this vagary, even on a sober-minded man like myself. The black veil, though it covers only our pastor’s face, throws its influence over his whole person, and makes him ghostlike from head to foot. Do you not feel it so?” “Truly do I,” replied the lady; “and I would not be alone with him for the world. I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself!” “Men sometimes are so,” said her husband. …. “Why do you look back?” said…
Although the piece has the movement and the situation of shadows and light that are necessary in creating a realistic, three-dimensional aspect to the image, they are placed incorrectly in terms of reality. From the angle that light is coming from and the angles of the shadows on the ruins, a moon should either be seen at the top right-hand corner of the image or should be just off of the canvas, but besides the slight orange hue of the sky, there is no indication that there…
distracted by things created by man. Lastly, he makes the claim that man is undermining the beauty of creating. Instead of being left in wonder over the awesomeness of God’s creation, man fixes his mind on things which are not edifying and distract from God. 6. In Leo Tolstoy’s “The death of Ivan IIych”, Ivan’s colleagues are more concerned with their own carrier than his death. The narrator directly states, “So, on hearing of Ivan IIych’s death, the first thought of each of the gentlemen in…
The parallels and allusions to the biblical story of Adam and Eve further prove Hawthorne’s theme of the fall from innocence. Goodman Brown and Faith are the seventeenth-century Adam and Eve. The nicely dressed man with mysterious origins, supernatural powers, and the serpent staff represents the Devil. Faith and Goodman Brown are introduced as religious newlyweds…
overcome even his Faith. The entry from, a lightened place, into the dark forest portrays his first step towards a transgression that ends up becoming the only reality in his life from hereon. The dark path…
glory and pride of America, its tunes come from a deceptive origin: the “Anacreontic Song” that was dedicated to the Greek Writer Anacreon for his writings on women, sex and drugs. The patriotic melody also comes from a English drinking song which was the reason it was initially rejected as the national anthem for a hundred and forty years. The song is controversial, one that casts doubt and condemns the true American identity. Although the song comes from a questionable origin, it has impacted…