The Scarlet Ibis

There was once a Goddess protecting the lustrous frosted stars. Among the other deities, she felt that nothing went her way and hated herself in any case. The stars were graceful and dazzling without her help. They grew to be independent of her power. To hide from all the pain and sorrow of feeling impotent, the goddess went off on a search for a place to hide away. There stood a soulless land, surrounded by a large body of water. In the depths of the vast dead sea, the goddess found a rocky…

On a cold, dark, night, Sir Charles Baskerville was walking alone down an alley. Creeping up behind him was the Hound of the Baskervilles. Sir Charles turned and saw the horrible hound. With terror in his heart, he ran as fast as he could in an attempt to escape the hound. He fell dead at the scene from heart problems and sheer terror. Sir Henry Baskerville has just moved into the hall that his family has owned for generations. The only problem is a hound-beast has been haunting the family.…

The Scarlet Letter focuses heavily on the romantic movement and what conflicted it at that time. Hawthorn uses these characters as outlets for showing the romantic movement and how it was put into action while also being ridiculed. Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter to communicate how following the beliefs of the Romantic movement helps lead people to achieving their best moral life; their passion is the most natural feeling, how society ridicules the people who: believe in the romantic movement…

What single sin could one woman have possibly committed to have the sun not shine on her? The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was written during the 1840’s in Salem and Concord, Massachusetts. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the main characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. The main character was Hester Prynne she had committed adultery which at the time was the worst thing anyone could do. Which…

Scarlet Letter Theme In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main characters Hester Prynne and Reverend Dimmesdale both committed the same sin, adultery. Hester became pregnant and was publicly shamed; however, none of the Puritans of Boston were the wiser about Dimmesdale’s sin. He alone lived with the constant knowledge of his sin. Whereas, Hester had everyone to share it with. Sin must be brought to light in order to be redeemed. Dimmesdale received many opportunities to confess…

short. . . . “Will it not come of its own accord, when I am a woman grown?” (275) The passage fits into the novel by adding character to Pearl, and an important motif about the comparisons between sin and humans. As previously noted, pearl is one of a kind in this community noting things that were not thought to be there at first. She later comes to be identifying the letter with “sunshine”, that she is short of from life. Because she is only a child she doesn’t understand what she. She…

stands in real life, Daniel Hawthorne proves its truth in his novel The Scarlet Letter. Within the novel, the townspeople punish the main character Hester for her sin of adultery. As a result, the townspeople and the jury require Hester to wear a scarlet letter upon her chest. The author hides Hester’s counterpart in the crime of adultery from the public and for seven years he never confesses his sin. Throughout the book The Scarlet Letter, the author, Hawthorne, conveys the idea that…

Puritanical Mores in The Scarlet Letter In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a young, female adulterer residing in a 17th century Puritan community faces public shame for her sin by wearing a scarlet letter A on her chest, leading her to support herself and her daughter single handedly, which reflects the inability of the various Catholic followers to escape their social expectations and follow individual will. Pearl, Hester’s daughter, metaphorically represents the purity from the…

Columnist, short story author, and poet Ambrose Bierce is remembered for his veracity and his acrimonious prose style. Bierce has evidently won the superlative for causing the most havoc when it came to his writing. The bad-tempered bravado of his gazette writing and his former appalling naturalistic war fiction led to him obtaining the appellations “Bitter Bierce” and “The Devil’s Topographer.” Antagonistic derision seemed to flow through Bierce’s writing, from his raging literary smites in his…

In The Scarlet Letter, an American gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing to represent adultery, the sin in which she has committed. Her partner, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains furtive and unidentified. This engenders Dimmesdale to have a burden of guilt brought upon him. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been gone for three years, seeks revenge on Dimmesdale. In Moby Dick, another American gothic novel, there is a great deal of revenge…