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    Merit, Marriage, and Mistresses

    works of literature in particular shed light upon the development and consequences of these illicit relationships. These three works are Fortunata and Jacinta by Benito Perez Galdós, Adolphe by Benjamin Constant, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each of these books contains similar and distinct, relationship development, main characters, characterization of classes, environment depiction, and resolutions. Fortunata and Jacinta was written by Benito Galdós in 1887. Galdós, born on the

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    The Scarlet Letter

    presents the letter “A” as a primary character. Throughout the novel, the meaning of the “A” continuously changes and has different meanings for different characters as well. Specifically, Hawthorne indicates that the “A” signifies “Adultery”, “Able”, and “Angel”. Additionally, throughout The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne suggests that the letter “A” signifies abandonment in that Hester abandons traditional Puritan society and her femininity, and she is abandoned by Dimmesdale when he reaches salvation and

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    The Character Of Hester And Pearl In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author of The Scarlet Letter, conveyed that Hester Prynne would, “go about the country as a kind of voluntary nurse, and doing whatever miscellaneous good she might; taking upon herself, likewise, to give advice in all matters, especially those of the heart.” He found old writings about Hester’s life. The author took these pages into consideration while he presented Hester to be someone that through repentance of her adultery sin she evolved to be generous and empathetic

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    Frost

    Puritans followed “their own rigorous moral and religious strictures…” , which led many Puritans to believe most people are inherently evil and deserve punishment (Hunt 26). Puritans believed sin’s “penalty thereof is death” (Hawthorne 59). In Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne characterized the Puritan view of sin, the punishment of sin, and how the punishment of sin revealed Hester’s courage, but led to Dimmesdale’s demise. Hester and Dimmesdale committed the same sin and “while Hester’s sin is noticeable

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    The Story of Young Goodman Brown

    Destruction of Faith: The Story of Young Goodman Brown The story of “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, chronicles the dream of a young man struggling with his beliefs in the Puritan society in Salem. In the dream, Goodman Brown is forced to examine evil as it exists in men and struggles to maintain the balance with the good that he knows. He becomes acutely aware of evil through his encounter with the devil, and is completely disillusioned from the experience. The significance of the

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    Symbols In The Minister's Black Veil

    Nathaniel Hawthorne in ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ uses the symbolic black veil to symbolize one hiding private sins. Hawthorne wrote ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’. He convinces me through his extraordinary writing to agree with the fact that the black veil is a good symbol. To continue, Hawthorne represented well by making a label clear, showing rather than hiding, and proving an element to the “black veil”. What does a label even mean? First, everything has a label. In ‘The Minister’s Black

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    Evils Among Society

    are embodied among ordinary people put under various pressures to create an evil situation. These traits repeatedly appear among characters in both American literature and history in The Crucible by Arthur Miller, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and the events related to McCarthyism. Authority gives one the right the apparent right to demand obedience and expect the norm from “their people”. They are expected to use beneficial judgment and lead society

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    Role of Sin in the Scarlet Letter

    becomes a problem when it is kept within and develops itself into something larger than it was in the first place. Keeping secrets is an impairment to one’s life, which in a larger picture affects a whole society. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, “secret sin” is a predominant theme, which in this novel leads to changes in both emotional and physical being. In the early days of the Massachusetts colony, they are neither welcoming nor accepting of sin or different ideas and are suspicious

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    Essay On Light And Dark In The Scarlet Letter

    on in this essay were good and evil deed and actions they have done throughout the novel and how it affects the readers overall attitude at the end. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the symbols of light and dark to depict good and evil among the characters Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Hawthorne introduces Hester by saying, “She came forth into the sunshine” (72). The sunshine shows Hester has some light coming down on her instead of the town looking down on her and

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    Report

    The Hawthorne effect (also referred to as the observer effect is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify or improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. The original research at the Hawthorne Works in Cicero, Illinois, on lighting changes and work structure changes such as working hours and break times were originally interpreted by Elton Mayo and others to mean that paying attention to overall worker needs would improve productivity. Later interpretations

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