...In "The Scarlett Letter", written in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne establishes commodity into the relationships between characters. Commodity in a relationship is where people must have a profit or gain something from the relationship otherwise they will not be apart of the relationship. The main victim of this commodity is Hester Prynne. The reason behind her rejections is because of her sins as an adulterer and social status cause many townsmen and regular people to reject her and avoid her at all costs. The other people in these relationships include Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. Perhaps the most important relationship in The Scarlet Letter is Roger Chillingworth and Hester Prynne. Although their relationship doesn't...
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...Alyissa Li Brown Mrs. Dick American Literature October 19, 2012 The Many Shades of Red The color red: it is beautiful, rich, and full of meaning. It represents many different things in today’s world such as love, danger, and revenge. Similarly, in the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the color red is especially prominent. Color is important in this novel because every color has symbolic meaning behind it. This device of symbolism is used well in the novel, especially through the color red. It is the most important color because it is used the most, in the title of the book, and the color of the ‘A’. The color red symbolizes passion, shame and ultimately love. In The Scarlet Letter, it begins with a detailed description of a rose bush which symbolizes Hester and her passion. Roses are obviously red so immediately, red is going to be a very important color. In the following quote, it describes the rose bush and how it represents Hester: “This rose bush by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, - or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door, - we shall not take upon us to determine” (50). This is the first encounter with red. It is the description of a wild red rosebush growing outside...
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...Marcelo Neto US History Hon Mr. Hershaw 11/15/2012 The Scarlet Letter By Nathanial Hawtorne Summary The Scarlet Letter opens with a long chapter explaining how the book came to be written. The narrator was the surveyor of the customhouse in Salem, Massachusetts, where the novel takes place. In the customhouse’s attic, he finds a number of documents, among them a manuscript that was bundled with a scarlet patch in the shape of an “A.” The manuscript detailed events that occurred some two hundred years before the narrator’s time. When the narrator lost his customs post, he decided to write a fictional account of the events recorded in the manuscript. The Scarlet Letter is the final product. The novel begins in the seventeenth-century Boston, when Hester is briefly released from prison so that she can be paraded through town, displaying her scarlet "A" embroided on her chest while standing on top of the town scaffold. She carries her baby daughter, Pearl, in her arms. After being Hester steadfastly refuses to reveal the name of Pearl’s father, so that he might be saved from punishment. Hester Prynne’s long lost husband arrives in the midst of this parade through town. He visits her in prison before her release and asks her not to tell anyone that he’s in town. His plan is to disguise himself so that he can ferret out...
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...In the era of the New World, puritans wanted to “purify” the Church of England. Puritans had various forms of punishments for many things. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, The Scarlet Letter, he sets the tone of his book in the old English Puritan days. Hawthorne describes one of the multiple puritan punishments that took place, he mainly focuses on the punishment for committing adultery. He ties it all together with the puritans’ beliefs, the effects it had on his life, modes of punishment, and crimes related to some in his book. Puritanism is a powerful political movement in the late 16th and 17th century that strived to “purify” the Church of England and thought they were pursuing God’s work (Gao 176). They believed that sinners could not...
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...North American Literature 2014-2015. Individual Freedom restricted by Puritans. Analysis of Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. [Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter] ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to analyze how Nathaniel Hawthorne deals with the theme of freedom focusing on the major characters such as Hester, Chillingworth and Dimmesdale. I argue that, there is a sign of individual freedom due to the fact that all the characters have the right to act in the way they do it but they will be always suppressed by the decisions of the Puritans. I also argue that, there is no collective freedom in terms of society because Puritanism restricts, punishes and judges individual actions. Key words: major characters, individual freedom, suppressed, no collective freedom. The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1850, is constructed by the main themes of isolation and suffering. Moreover, sin and the Puritan law are narrowly connected, making the wish of freedom almost an impossible achievement. Over the course of the novel, Hester is the only one who truly manifests her right of individual freedom. However, she has been punished by the Puritan law, which considers her attitude as a threat to the Puritan community and its religion. Hester’s freedom starts since the moment she decides to carry her punishment in New England and not going back to England, where she could have lived a new life without feeling guilty. Furthermore, her self-determination...
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...There are many “sinners” that believe their actions shouldn’t be frowned upon in the novel, The Scarlet Letter”, but many people do not recall which character had a greater outcome of sin making. Throughout the novel thoughts became obvious about who this character might be, but then the words jumped out at me as the thought of one character who was a greater sinner than most. It becomes obvious throughout the story that Chillingworth has committed the greater sin throughout his whole life. The Scarlet Letter is full of romance and redemption amongst all of the main characters in Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the 17th-century of the year 1642 to 1649. Hester, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth are three of the many characters in this “Master Piece” and they all have one very thing in common which is the fact that they all are sinners of their own making....
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...Megan Naylor Dr. DiCicco English 3664 March 29, 2011 Gender Roles in The Scarlet Letter and The Awakening During the Victorian era, the life a woman was immensely difficult. They were considered the property of their husband, and treated as such. Women were forbidden from owning their own property, even if they were given the property from their father. In such a case, the land would be transferred in ownership to her husband. A woman’s place was in the home, to dutifully care for her husband and children. Her job was to cook, clean, and bear children. Interestingly, a wife was treated similarly to her children. Obedience toward the man of the home was necessary from both the children and the mother. In contradiction to all of the restriction and repression, the nineteenth century produced two of literatures strongest women. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Kate Chopin gave American society two women who actively defied their husbands and who possessed their own strong moral codes. With The Scarlet Letter published in 1850 and set in the seventeenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne was taking a large risk in creating a novel detailing a woman’s adultery with the town’s minister and producing an illegitimate child in the process. Despite the treatment she receives, Hester does not waver in her promise to keep her lover secret, proving that she is a strong willful woman. As the century is coming to a close, Kate Chopin produced a work that sent shock waves through American society. The...
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...Imagine being an influential leader of the public but knowing deep down you disappointed them. Imagine walking through town knowing that you are a hypocrite. Imagine being the parent that gave birth to a “demon.” Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts these situations in The Scarlett Letter. He utilizes Arthur Dimmesdale and Hester Prynne, to demonstrate how owning one’s sin can positively impact one physically or mentally. Dimmesdale commits a sin by impregnating Hester. Unlike Hester, Dimmesdale never openly admits to his mistake. He copes with the guilt of sin aggressively, striking and whipping himself. Hester, on the other hand, handles the situation by doing charity work and being productive despite the criticism she receives for her previous actions. However, Hester is affected mentally more than she is physically. Before showing the difference between Hester and Dimmesdale, Hawthorne attempts to put them both on the same ground so they can be compared. He does this by making them both involved in the same crime. However, it is impossible to make both characters equal. Hester lived in the outskirts of town as a seamstress...
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...her face. Thirty days had passed since the siege started but it seemed a life time to her. Peachee Creek, Deccatur, Ezra church and Utoy Creek had been names of pleasant places to her now they were all devastated. At last, Scarlett heard from news that the Yankees were on the forth side of the town . She was terrified as Careen was very sick and Scarlett didn't know whether she was dead or alive. Lastly, a courier came from Jonesboro with news that the Yankees had been beaten back and a letter from her father who was in Jonesboro chasing for a doctor to go to Tara with him. The letter indicated that her mother and both girls had the typhoid. She was told that in no circumstances was she to come and expose herself and Wade to the desease . After reading the letter, the repeated thing left in Scarlett's mind was the prayers for her mother. For the next week , she stayed at home waiting for news from Tara in an intense anxiety but the mails were still disrupted so there was not a word from Tara. Scarlett had seen the typhoid in Atlanta hospital and she felt so helpless while her mother was seriously ill. She longed to be home in Tara . She blamed Melanie for this as she could have been home if it had not been for Melanie clinging to her so hard. Scarlett thought that she could go back to Tara with the help of General Hood but she promised Ashley to look after Melanie and Melanie might be dead without her care so She had to stay despite the burning desire for home. Everyone knew...
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...In the novel, Scarlett Letter, the Puritans live in a community bent on conforming to the common beliefs and values set by their society. Those whose ideas and values diverge from the norm are criticized and despised for their individualism. Hawthorne portrays this ignorance and conformity through the Puritans' belief that the forest is evil and unruly. However, because the forest is secluded far from the influences of society, Hawthorne suggests that in the forest people are able to express the individuality they are deprived of in their Puritan settlement. Thus, the forest, an embodiment of freedom and individuality, is used as a symbol to contrast the harsh Puritan society with the free nature of the forest in order to convey the importance of isolation from society in being true to one's self. In the beginning of the novel, the forest is used to reveal the Puritan's ignorance through their fear of the unknown. The Puritans assume the forest to be a savage and evil place because it is uncontrolled by Puritan law, thus reflecting how centered the Puritans were around their rigid society. Just as Dimmsdale enters the scene of the scaffold coming from the forest, the rigid "settlement of Christian men" (Hawthorne, 66) is immediately put into comparison with the "vast and dismal forest" (66) that is feared by the puritans. The use of the adjectives to describe the forest imply its dark, obscure and boundless characteristics, in contrast to the very structured society of the...
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...is an example of not putting others before yourself. On the other hand, Mr. Wilson is an example of putting others before yourself. We also see Toby acting selfishly (like his mother) but later he shows how to put others before himself later in the book (like his father). In the book Mrs. Wilson leaves her town so she can go try to win a singing contest in Nashville, Tennessee. She doesn’t really think of Toby’s or Mr. Wilson’s feelings or thoughts about her going when she leaves. She only thinks of herself, not her son or husband. You should be able to follow your dreams, but you need to make sure you’re not harming other people emotionally or physically when doing so. For example, on pg. 116, after reading a letter from his mom this is what Toby does: “I rip the letter into confetti, then throw the pieces out of the window.” He obviously is hurt and upset with...
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...Scarlett Letter | | Theresa Powell 9/11/12 EDU 350 Prof. Hall In the Scarlett Letter, there are obviuos meanings for the letter “A”. Adultery is the first that stands out, but through deeper readinbg one will find that there are, in fact, several meanings Hawthorne implies for the reader to contimplate. This twisted tale of marriage, love, family, religion, power and human mature is one of great depth and purpose. The Puritans became resolute in creating a colon y that would be a beacon of light to the rest of the “civilized” world by immulating what they feverently believed to be the true worship of God which was the strict following of the law. The sin of the law is simple in that mankind is incapable of adhereing to the law so strictly and that the power of the self righteous that ignorantly believe that they are in fact following the law, even if the actions are sinful in and of itself. This led the Puritans to sin not only against God of the Old Testement by breaking the law, but also Jesus in the New Testament for not exclaiming freedom from the law given by his death and the conquering of death by his resurrection. Freedom is representative of the “A” in numerous ways. As in the moment Hester pulls away from the constable and “stepped out into the open air” on “her own free will”. This is what the Puritans...
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...educational reform movement often referred to as Renaissance humanism. This American nationalism focused on the expression of modernism, technology, and academic classicism. Renaissance technological advancements include wire cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge in the State of New York, along with cultural advancements found in the Prairie School houses, Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in architecture and sculpture. The political heir of American nationalism evolved with the Gilded Age and New Imperialism school of thought. The American Renaissance produced major influential literary works from some of the most brilliant minds in U.S. history, including Ralph Waldo Emerson's the "Representative Man (1850)", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlett Letter (1850)" and "The House of Seven Gables (1851)," Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden (1854)," and Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass (1855)." American Renaissance Literary Masterpieces The American Renaissance, a literary and cultural period circa extending from 1820 to the mid-1860s, gained inspiration from the unresolved issues of the American Revolution. The American Renaissance literary style was coined as "Romanticism," an international philosophical movement that redefined the perceptions of Western cultures, and seldom refers to the preconceived notions of love. Some important authors arising out of this era include: James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Ralph...
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...which helped unveil the amounts of unseen potential that were in radio. Subsequently, rather than writing the sound medium out of movies, filmmakers started to realize the essentiality of sound in film, and how effective it is whether it is evident or not. (Arnheim, 1936) Early 2014, Spike Jonze constructed a highly complex movie in which he has set sound as a primary carrier of narrative in ways that are unfamiliar and unique in comparison to most movies seen today. As soon as the movie begins, it starts becoming more and more evident that it will not be a highly visual piece, as it will be more led by story. The movie is set in the near future and revolves around a sensitive and soulful man that earns his living by writing personal letters for people. He is left devastated after he separates from his wife and gradually becomes obsessed with a new complicated operating system, which is highly intuitive and can develop its own separate entity by evolving through space and time. He launches the program and meets Samantha a playful and friendly voice that is acted by Scarlet Johansson. Which is an operating system that consists of an earpiece and a small screen, the size of a cardholder. Throughout the film, the main character Theodore is played by Joaquin Phoenix communicates with Samantha, whom begins as friends but later develops into a more complicated relationship. Since Samantha is not a real person in the movie, all communication is based on sound and in rare occasions...
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...question1 What are the remedies available under the Law of Contract? Remedy is where the inured party enforce their rights or get a reward for a loss. It also means to achieve justice where legal rights are involved. There are many types of remedies and some of them may be ordered by court, granted by judgement, by agreement between two parties and operation of law. The remedies depend on the nature of the breach. The remedies available under the Law Of Contract are Rescission, Restitution, Damages, Specific Performance, Injunction,Mareva Injunction, and Quantum Meruit. Rescission has been defined as the cancellation of contract between parties. It enables the innocent party to cancel off the contract when there is any misinterpretation by the other party. Misinterpretation is as the defence if the innocent party is sued for damages or specific performance by the other party. Under the Sale of Goods, the innocent party has the rights to cancel off the contract when there is a breach of implied condition as to title, correspondence with description, merchantable quality, fitness for purpose and sale by sample corresponding to those implied in contract of sale. Restitution is sometimes referred as quasi-contract. Quasi-contract is a contract created by courts. Quasi contract is actually not a legal contract but it is actually a legal substitute which is formed to impose equity between the two parties. It does not rely on the plaintiff, person who brings a case against another...
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