Nathaniel Ayers

How man responds to guilt determines future success in life. Godly sorrow leads a person to repentance, or condemnation torments them forever. In both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, protagonists Hester Prynne and John Proctor struggle with guilt for their sin. Both the novel and playwright take place in 17th Century Puritan Massachusetts, when adultery is considered witchcraft, and punishable by death. After Hester Prynne has an affair with Reverend…

The Scarlet Letter is a novel that was an eventful novel that was written in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel takes place in Puritan America. This setting serves as a necessary fuel for the novel’s gears to continually turn from its beginning to its conclusion. The relationships housed in the book are also extremely important for the sustained survival of the plot. Many characters display moral frailties throughout The Scarlet Letter, thus creating a novel that challenges the reader’s…

themselves or expect scornful, sometimes extreme, punishments for any action considered sinful by the faith. Many puritans of this community, such as those described by Nathaniel Hawthorne, trigger a chain reaction of sinful disobedience that greatly defies the moral standards of an entire society. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne, Reverend…

People who modelled or taught a religious way of life Mary Mackillop’s parents were very consequential influences in her life. Both were Scottish Catholics, vigorously committed to their faith. Mary’s father, Alexander,studied for the priesthood in Scotland and in Rome but was never ordained. He became a leading lay Catholic in the infant Catholic community of Melbourne. Alexander withal appreciated the paramountcy of edification. His extensive cognizance as well as his deep Catholic faith…

After the fire, Green’s life was a mess, she didn’t care for the garden, one of the only places where she felt like she could be who she was, and then she even let the looters destroy it. Then, she started to transform herself into a whole other person, a person with tattoos covering her body, a person with clothes covered by thorns, a person who was fearful of herself. She wanted to look so scary, so fearful, that nobody would ever disrespect her again. That was until love found her, it was…

that everyone carries a sin or inner sorrow around with them that they do not make known to the people around them. He wears the black veil because although his sin is visible to everyone, everyone else carries their black veil in their hearts. Nathaniel Hawthorne in this parable wants to show that everyone sins but he hide it in our hearts instead of showing it and letting people know in fear of what people might say about us. Hawthorne sends the message that everyone sins, everyone carries…

How much of the U.S have social media accounts? Seventy eight percent. (According to Statistica) How many of them can use these accounts to cyber-bully, humiliate, and harass people online? All seventy eight percent. That is thousands and thousands of people around the U.S able to do whatever they want and say whatever they want, which continues to add on to a huge problem today-- public shaming. To publicly shame someone is to harass, humiliate, and even threaten people online or in person.…

In Richard Byrd’s accounts, the author uses point of view to illustrate a pessimistic future that the author believes is inevitable. The central idea of the text is that the author believes his physical and emotional state are suffering extreme consequences as a result of prolonged isolation from civilization, and because of harsh weather conditions, which are to be expected from a desolate and harsh environment that Antarctica houses. Richard Byrd, according to his accounts, was stationed at…

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne adulteress Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ to mark her shame. Her lover, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains unidentified and is filled with gilt, while her husband, Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge. Even though Hester ends the story as a heroine,she plays a victim throughout via extreme societal judgement. After all, she is forced to wear the scarlet ‘’A’’ Hester wears it on her chest with her head held high on the scaffold. As she walks through the…

This book called The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson by Lois Simmie is based on true story that was gathered by Simmie. She heard this story throughout her life and wanted to see what exactly happened to this man. Once was a enough information was gained, she decided to make this into a book to tell this man story and to provide history background of Canada. This will tell you if her time spent doing this was worth it, the purpose of it, and does she accomplish this purpose. The purpose…