The Purloined Letter

Through a single independent clause, it is simply stated Hester is no longer confined in prison. However, her freedom is not that simple, due to her decision to stay in the community she is still confined within the puritan model of society. The syntax here used signifies that Hester being free from the prison is a small action and simple in the grand scheme of things. Thus, the syntax makes a subtle comment that Hester is to endure a much harsher form of confinement now within her community as…

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is about the vengeance of a man after his ex-wife suffers for her sin in a small town in Boston whilst taking care of her daughter she bore after cheating on him with the town minister. Herman Melville wrote a similar American gothic novel titled Moby Dick, which is about a wildly obsessed captain seeking revenge and death on a gargantuan white whale along with his shipmates. The Character, Captain Ahab, was written after King Ahab in the Bible…

This film starts off with the Vatican electing a new Archbishop for San Salvador. Those who chose him had aimed to choose the weakest and most fragile member of the church, Oscar Romero. They could not have been more wrong about this man. Oscar became aware of what was happening to the people of San Salvador. They were being captured, raped and killed for no reason at all. Many men, women, and children had gone missing and were never found again. In this time period, the government was at…

ligious imagery and thinking play a major role for Nathaniel Hawthorne. His perceptive insight into the organized religion that was Puritanism lends a sense of disillusionment and cynicism to his short stories. He is especially taken with the role of sin and man’s capacity for evil. He is both enthralled by it and at the same time repulsed. But he is acutely aware of its existence and uses this knowledge to highlight the hypocrisy and insincerity of a religion suffused with tyrannical clergy…

literally the churches dirty laundry, providing a comical outlook on an extremely relevant moment. This event also comes at a crucial time in the play, because the reader soon finds out that Sister Virginia has secretly written, sealed and sent a letter to the bishop in the hopes of changing things at the laundry, even going so far as asking him to delay his trip to Rome. Correspondingly this threat of exposure to even a small portion of the outside world justifies the head being screwed on to…

to help form characters and provide readers with an insight into crucial aspects of their identity. Isolation and alienation, two forms of torturous estrangement are very much experienced by the novel’s protagonists of ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘The Scarlet Letter’, Jane Eyre and Hester Prynne respectively. Throughout the two novels it can be broadly debated whether the characters are presented as outsiders due to their internal characteristics, or whether it is society and other external forces which…

to depict his inner struggles in writing, of what he sees as the hypocrisy of puritan society. Hawthorne uses syntax, tone and imagery to convey this hypocrisy through Hester’s supposed “sin”. Hawthorne utilizes syntax to structure The Scarlet Letter as a plane of fiction set in reality. His use of syntax portrays the changes that occur in specific people throughout the story through Dimmesdale, the Villagers, Pearl, and Hester herself. Dimmesdale changed when he began to use his sermons as…

These final chapters of the book demonstrate the struggles of the Mirabal sisters in their last years. At first, Dede experiences trouble deciding whether she should join the rebellion or stay loyal to her husband and sons. Leandro, Manolo, Pedrito, and Nelson are caught by the SIM and set to jail. Minerva and Mate are as well. Luckily, Patria is able to communicate with her sisters in jail and send them gifts through one of their half sisters. Patria starts to “pray” to Trujillo to set her…

Alex Canaday Mrs. Wood English Honors III 3A 2 October 2015 Word Count: 641 Scarlet Letter Final Essay Assignment In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is forced to wear the letter “A” due to a crime she committed. She is forced to wear the letter on every piece of clothing and is required to show it at all times to show people what she had done. Throughout the story, the letter changes meaning. It was supposed to be a symbol of shame and guilt, but ended up being a powerful…

We have all known someone we thought the worst of after first meeting them. Then, we change our minds about them after sharing some experiences with them. Raymond Carver used that paradigm in “Cathedral.” At first the Narrator embodies many of the negative traits associated with humanity, such as bigotry of what he does not understand, jealousy, and even perhaps a substance abuse problem. Yet, the more the reader travels through the story, the more the reader warms up to him. Despite his faults,…