The Last Letter Home

love encourages you to do the impossible and unimaginable things. My father and mother were my only obstacle that night, because they would not let me meet Muriel again. For this reason, I chose the best moment to get away, when my parents were not at home and my uncle Sid was…

“Secrets are destructive” (Hopkins) Hawthorne had a similar view on secrets in the novel, The Scarlet Letter as described by the characters: Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. They faced the effects of secrets on their mental and physical health. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne some believe the contrast between the scaffold and Hester’s house validate the theme secrets have a destructive effect on the secret keeper; however, the differences…

Enlightenment age, sharply, argued issues about women’s rights. Issues like her “natural rights” and liberation from the familial control were discussed. In his novel “Persians Letters” 1721, Montesquieu contradicted the eighteenth century, prominent gender view, which stated that women should only do domestic duties in their home and they should be confined in it, through criticizing the institution of the harem, which holds the same requirement of confinement. One of those thinkers who…

Caesar’s first parade a crucial warning was given to him from the town fortune teller, only for Caesar to laugh at him. “Beware the ides of March. / He is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass” (I.2.28-29). The fortune teller wanted him to be careful and stay home on the fifteenth of March. This is the first warning Caesar received about his soon to be tragic death, and he didn’t even give it a second thought.…

Saint-Amour, Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed a bunch of letters that was intended to be sent to him and after reading those letters which contained instructions where to get the money for his burial, Dr. Juvenal Urbino asked the officer and the medical student with him to start fixing the papers for the burial of his friend and no autopsy will be done since the cause of death is already known. But aside from the instructions of Jeremiah Saint-Amour the letter also contained a controversial…

Walton writes a series of letters to his sister Margaret, describing his expedition to the North Pole. At first everything is going smoothly until the boat gets stuck in a sheet of ice. Walton and the crew find a man,who is half dead, on the ice sheet and decide to bring him aboard. walton doesn 't have many friends so he is very happy to have an interesting person,who is going to tell his story tomorrow, aboard the boat. The new guy aboard the boats name is victor Frankenstein. Even in his…

she loves him. Allie’s father then walks in and tells her that in the next two days she must leave to college rather she likes it or not. Noah in the other room hears all that is going on, and decides she is best without him. Noah walks out of their home, and Allie runs after him. He tells her to go, knowing he loves her, and then tells her that he does not love her, so she can get a career, and make her family proud. This evaluation shows that a person is willing to give up the love of their…

The Scarlet Letter is seen by many as a story about sin, forgiveness and love and although these are all key points to the story, there are many other symbols and parts to the story that may not be plain to see at first glance. Symbols can be found in many different areas of the book, like the symbol for public shame, which can be found in the scaffold where Hester stood. Although there are multiple symbols found throughout the story, perhaps the most interesting and numerous one is the symbols…

In the Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne was convicted of adultery and had to wear an A on her chest that would mark her as an adulterer for the rest of her life. My project will be based on this subject but a bit more on the positive and brighter side. I chose four different characteristics and likings that started with the letter m to describe myself. These four attributes I picked are marine life, mindful, music, and meticulous. The great open ocean or “big blue” has always intrigued me since I…

would write to friends in neighboring states, husbands away for business, and family concerned for their wellbeing. Unlike the letters exchanged during the late 18th century, Abigail Adams’s letters to her husband were unbashful and full of witty banter. A series of letters deriving from March 1776 to May 1776 reveal a wife-husband relationship like no other. The first letter is from Abigail that dates back to March 3, 1776 and contains an unexpected introductory line: “I long to hear that you…