The Temptations

Hester Prynne after she has been found guilty of adultery. Hawthorne uses nature repeatedly in his novel, as well as subtly point out problems within the modern day world, to communicate to the audience how human beings are not bred to be perfect, as temptation overwhelms everyone at some point, and to some degree. Hawthorne tells the story of a broken utopia and the impacts such a narrow field of acceptance can be. Nature is used in the novel so frequently that it could almost be a…

The smells from the campfire dance through the young tribe members nostrils as they gather around one another eager to hear another tale. African slaves come to sing Negro spiritual songs passed down from generation to generation. Asian woman combine forces to discuss what women were once allowed to do. The pride, the tears, the stories and experiences of what used to be, that is culture. And every beating heart, every eager soul, every smile and every frown are common characteristics that we…

In her autobiography Zora Neale Hurston said it best “Love, I find is like singing. Everyone can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.” (p.249) Sometimes people get blinded by the materialistic view of the world and get distracted from their love. That was the case in Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six- Bits”. In “The Gilded Six-Bits” Missie May and Joe have a seemingly perfect Marriage. A new man with the name of “Mister Otis D. Slemmons,…

The events in many stories follow a specific pattern in order to make the storyline interesting and relatable. Joseph Campbell calls this occurrence the monomyth or in other words, The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey is separated into three parts: The Departure, Initiation, and The Return. Each of these sections consist of smaller events that mostly all happen within stories that obey the rules of the monomyth. One of the multiple movies that exemplifies this is Mulan. In this movie, the main…

viewed as “about fifty years old” (Hawthorne 2). Again, elder people are typically regarded as pure and legitimate, leaving the devil with an opening to woo Goodman Brown. His appearance of innocence makes Goodman Brown susceptible to his lies and temptations. Once Goodman Brown knew the true identity of the devil, he was distrusting of him. Age and appearance hid reality and allowed the allegorical figure of the devil and Abigail to tempt others. They were both falsely viewed as innocent. It…

teens because time spent online often interferes with family time and school work. Another couple of reasons are that allowing the internet only at certain times encourages disciplined internet use, blocking specific times of the day reduces online temptations, and blocking specific times of the day helps to establish parental authority. Overusing the internet can be a terrible habit, it really does prevent you to work done, unless the work is online. Teens tend to get distracted obsessive when…

impact that one bottle of beer will have on them. If the temptation of alcohol became legally available for teenagers then they would be more careless with their decisions affecting themselves and the people surrounding them. Teenagers that attended parties and had been drinking would rather look “strong” by saying they are fine to drive home when they really cannot even walk a straight line. The government should not put this huge temptation on this generation’s youth because it is not only…

Satan is to blame for giving humans temptations but it is their fault for giving into those temptations. There is an excellent example even back in the biblical times: the Garden of Eden story. Eve blamed the snake for convincing her to take the forbidden fruit and Adam blamed Eve for giving him the forbidden fruit. Nobody forced either of them to eat it, they did it upon their own free will. Adam and Eve gave into their sinful temptation to eat the fruit, in the end the two can only blame…

escapes the flames, but is saddened by her loss, but still keeps her faith in God. She knows that her earthly possessions are still "his own" and that God "gave and took" her things on earth. Bradstreet is grateful in that God has freed her from the temptations of earthly possessions which may have trapped her in "Hell's Spider's web" described in Edward Taylor's "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly." These possessions would prevented her from being able to be saved by God. 3. This is from the sermon…

in the depths of the land… it fascinated me as a snake would a bird- a silly little bird” (Conrad 5-6). The snake refers to the first sin from the book of Genesis when Adam gives in to temptation (Genesis 3 ESV). Because Adam sinned, man was forced to inherit sin. Just like Adam, Marlow cannot resist the temptation of sin, showing that man is inherently sinful. Kurtz's painting in the main station acts as another symbol of deception. It was an oil painting of a woman, blindfolded and clothed in…