Shunning

not only those of the jury. Since the conclusion of his trial with the yielded results, the movie Black Mass has emerged in 2015. This movie starring Johnny Depp, has brought fame and judgement to the actions that Whitey Bulger has committed. The shunning and judgement of Whitey Bulger is similar to that of the shaming of Hester Prynne. Hester’s trial was a public occasion that every one of her town attended bearing witness to her publicly believed misdoings and embarrassments. All of her town’s…

himself. Because the adulterous affair which caused her birth was sinful, Pearl will forever be viewed as the product of sin by Puritans. While one might be able to justify removing Hester from the community, it is difficult to defend the society’s shunning of Pearl. While Pearl is innocent of sin, the townspeople, however unfairly, associate her with the actions of her…

Both authors agree that regardless of the form of love an individual feels, the stages of grief that they cycle through are clear: initially, individuals experience the sting of grief and attempt to protect themselves against its harsh effects by shunning reality, once their pseudo reality is shattered, their grief transforms into anger towards the entity that has wronged them. In the case of Homer’s hymn To Demeter, the goddess attempts to assuage her grief over the abduction of her daughter by…

birth father. When it comes to investigating King Laius’s murderer, Oedipus cannot put the puzzle pieces together because he is unaware of his own identity, his parents’ identities and therefore the effect of his own actions. Instead, he remains shunning the unknown murderer, by warning him or her of the consequences. In the play, Oedipus pledges his goal on finding the murderer and having him punished by the…

Mexican immigration occupies a complex position in the US legal system and the public opinion. The immigration laws have swung back and forth throughout the late twentieth and early twenty-first century at times welcoming them and then shunning them away. The present scenario though, Mexican immigrants have been able to make place for themselves across the United States and make a significant portion of the US population. The Mexican Americans as they call themselves now have also become one of…

Now, in the deep freeze of a professional shunning, James was going to be taught a lesson: know your place and stay there. Oh James would stay in place all night, but not in the way that the veterans had hoped. The stubborn little shit sat and pouted during the victory acclamation when Myke Adams…

Literature throughout the world differs from culture to culture. Literature is designed to reflect one’s own experience and characteristics of their culture, often giving the audience an insight on how it was for them during a certain time. Mexican American literature is no different. Mexican American literature is very well known for its topics of hardships, migration life, assimilation into American society and the struggle of identity for Mexican Americans. In Infinite Divisions: An Anthology…

Death can come at any moment in time, any place, and can happen to anyone. The thing is, nobody knows when death is going to creep up on them, it could be stalking them right now and waiting for the right moment to capture them. Death is a silent assailant. In Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death," and the episode of Twilight Zone directed by Lamont Johnson in 1959, called "Nothing in the Dark," both involve death thoroughly. Although, the short story "The Masque of the Red…

My time with the Bostonian Paper The interviewer asked “What can you remember from the time when Hester was up on the Scaffold?” Twas’ a crisp summer morning as I remember, Hester was coming out through the prison lane and onto the scaffold. Walking by the People were gossiping about her whilst she was on the stage, talking about her adultery with this, unknown male. Up there on the stage she was being scorned at by all the townsfolk, her baby in her arms. The light was shining bright upon them…

Considering Hawthorne and how he viewed society and people, it is simple to find that there is a similar tone throughout the novel and short story. Hawthorne’s views on Puritans was very critical and harsh because he thought they had many flaws in their society. This tone was shown throughout the stories because he wanted to show through the plot and characters how the Puritan society was. For example in the novel it states, “But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of…