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Unit 1- Native Voices- “AH ZEBENYA!” The Native Voices unit was all about nature and how nature doesn’t depend on us and in fact nature can run us over and not be effected at all. In this unit we learned that although we would like to think that nature would have mercy on us but in reality nature stops for nothing. The natives truly understand that about nature so they immerse themselves into nature in order to further understand the dangers so they can avoid them. As we saw with the story of…

sunshine. I have none to give thee!” (p54) As time passes, Hester’s endurance and determination shines through. Many people in the Puritan community “refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able; so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength." (p113) Pearl grows in her understanding of life in the Puritan society and in her understanding of her mother and father. The scarlet letter matures into a symbol of Hester’s perseverance, while…

The Scarlet Letter is a gothic romance novel published in 1850 and written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne focuses on the struggles and hardships of Hester Prynne, a young maiden dealing with the strict, austere, Puritan punishment for the adulterous birth of her child, Pearl. One of the most complex and intricate characters in the novel is Pearl. While seen by many as a minor detail to the overall theme of the story, she is a central aspect designed to make sure that…

In contrast, the Puritans in the Congregational church focused a huge portion of their attention towards education. The church wanted to control the teaching in their land, and enforce the ideal of a good Christian to all students and citizens alike. Though heavily religion…

theories to elucidate why the Salem witch trials occurred, yet I have found that the most reasonable explanation for this tragedy is it was a product of the political repression in Salem’s community. In 1692, the village of Salem was inhabited by the Puritans and was ruled by a strict theocracy whose “function was to keep the community together, and to prevent any kind of disunity that might open it to destruction” (Miller 7). However, while the intentions of the church and state of Salem were…

trials and all of them stem from the church and the direct view of the bible. The way that Puritan society functioned repressed human nature and caused normally good people to lash out at others because of their own sin. They also gained both societal status and monetary value from accusing others. The literal view of the bible led to a very skewed version of the court. Along with this the fact that the Puritans were very isolated from the rest of society made for huge amounts of paranoia. The…

Set in 17th century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter is a tale about a good woman who made a terrible mistake. She committed adultery. In Puritan society, adultery was the ultimate sin, and it was punishable by death. Since Hester Prynne gave birth to a child due to this sin, the townspeople decide not to punish her by death, but rather allow her to live out her days with her child while condemned to wear a scarlet A on her bosom. Many themes stand out in The Scarlet Letter, and readers will…

in a New Critical reading she is the protagonist. The Scarlet Letter opens with a clerk in a customs house sifting through several old boxes when he stumbles across a mysterious red letter “A.” He proceeds to read the story of Hester Prynne: the Puritan adulteress mother. In her story, readers learn that the father of her daughter, Pearl, is actually the young Reverend Dimmsdale who cannot admit to being the girl’s…

woman who suffered public humiliation, but shows a great amount of compassion in her character. Hester shows her compassion by single-handedly taking care of her daughter Pearl. Although Hester is seen as a subjective shameful Puritan who can not care for a child by the Puritan society, she is the best guardian to Pearl because she protects Pearl no matter her setbacks, she will teach Pearl the right ways to live, while influencing her to be good, and because Hester forms a strong connection…

Defining Congregational Worship The polemic surely has a clear-cut definition of congregational worship for music to be so abstractly removed from it a priori. If this definition is tested lexically against scripture, however, we find that it cannot stand, and the premise defeated. Whale believed that “worship is the only sufficient evidence of living religion” and Luther famously said habere deum est colere deum, or “to believe in God is to go down on your knees.” For such bold assertions to…