Scarlet fever

In his novel, The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne presents readers with Pearl, the peculiar young daughter of Hester Prynne. Since Pearl’s birth, Hester and her daughter became isolated from Puritan society, living together with very little interaction with the rest of society. As a result, Pearl grew to have a personality that troubled even Hester. Though this anomalous personality disturbed Hester and was a constant reminder of the passion and sinfulness through which Pearl was conceived,…

Where is the place for trust in relationships? This is the very question Huston is asking the audience in The Maltese Falcon through his exemplification of numerous relationships that all have an underlying aspect of deceit and betrayal. Starting with the relationship of Miles and Sam, Huston tears apart all the values that are usually expected to be upheld in the simplest of relationships starting with friendship, all because of women. Huston’s settling of these tarnished relationships in the…

Oft compared to St. Augustine’s Confessions, Guibert writes in a style where he both is telling a history of himself and his land as well as confessing his sins to God. He crossed between growing up with a mother he likened to the Virgin Mary, particularly in that she patiently waited years to consummate her marriage and did not forsake her husband or wifely duties, and his guilt of not being a pious enough boy or man. He related tales of nobles he knew who became dedicated to the church through…

The Unnatural Enigma of Little Pearl Prynne. The novel, “Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduces to us a unique character that is often referred to as one of the most difficult children in literature: Pearl Prynne. Pearl Prynne is the bastard child to Hester Prynne and the respected Reverend Dimmesdale. Throughout the story, Pearl gives the impression of a rebellious, yet intelligent, child who is trying to get her mother and father to finally do the right thing. In Chester E.…

and their pride, Adam and Eve were forced to leave the Garden as punishment. Through their sin, Adam and Eve learned the difference between right and wrong. And through their repentance, God was able to forgive them. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter, he highlights the transgressions and penitence of his characters in a Puritan society. The story follows the trinity of Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth, who commit adultery, hypocrisy, and revenge respectively.…

Furthermore, the hard-boiled fiction has its own subcategory, the noir novel which developed in the early 1940s. The noir is different from its initiator in a several ways. First of all the protagonist is no longer the detective. The main character is the suspect or the victim, the one who is connected with the crime not the one who is involved from the outside. What is more, the noir novel stresses the physical relationships and emphasizes the disruptive features of the protagonist (Tuttle).…

This section of the textbook provides one of the works of Nicaraguan poet, Gioconda Belli about the impact poetry and revolution radically changed her life when she was much younger. During this time, she became well versed in foreign works that were attributed philosophical materialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism, socialist theory, and the works of other philosophers and political theorist. Her own works went on to featured themes of sexual liberation, exploration, and femininity which…

to do so, the mainstream ideas and beliefs of society can often fuel the flame of conflict for those who fail to conform. Generally speaking, society has a great impact on an individual’s mood, self-esteem, and can even mold one’s character. The Scarlet Letter takes place in a devout Puritan town where a woman named Hester Prynne, who refuses to reveal the identity of her child’s father, is found guilty of adultery. Due to this, not only does Hester Prynne have to fight her own quarrel against…

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-check" has been deciphered as an anecdote about the duality of human presence, the inclination for a thought over a human life, male feelings of dread of monthly cycle or potentially female sexuality, the murder of a spouse without legitimate outcomes, and even nineteenth-century work conditions and practices. In spite of the striking decent variety of these readings, they all concede to one key point: the over the top idea of Aylmer's response to the little…

“I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.” Actor Benedict Cumberbatch states, humanity will influence one to empathize with the character no matter what. Writers, through direct and indirect presentation, can provoke empathy for a character who was thought to be black-hearted. With direct presentation, the reader explicitly receives presented information about a character…