Our story today is called, "The Ambitious Guest. " It was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Here is Harry Monroe with our story. Narrator: One December night, a long, long time ago, a family sat around the fireplace in their home. A golden light from the fire filled the room. The mother and father laughed at something their oldest daughter had just said. The girl was seventeen, much older than her little brother and sister, who were only five and six years old. A very old woman, the familys grandmother
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Evil, obsessiveness, and manipulative are some of the words describing what Roger Chillingworth is because of sin in The Scarlet Letter. From the beginning, we see Roger as an enigmatic character, knowledgeable in medicine from his time in captivity, as well as - unbeknownst to others except the audience - the wife of Hester Prynne. As the story progresses, - and when Roger finds about Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin, - Roger becomes a more sinister character, whose darker complexion is only matched
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The story begins with old Dr. Heidegger inviting four elderly friends over to his rather eerie study: Colonel Killigrew, Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and the Widow Wycherly. The four old folks have all fallen a long way from their prime; each squandered his own type of fortune (youth, money, power, beauty) and is now in a miserable state. The narrator also informs us that, when they were young, the three men used to fight over the attention of the Widow Wycherly.Heidegger's creepy study contains
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You'll encounter writing that addresses beloved, classic literature as well as modern, controversial novels. Find expository writing that discusses the life of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his chilling novel, "The Scarlet Letter." How is "the scarlet letter" in the story more than just the letter itself? What statement was Hawthorne making about the puritan beliefs of his ancestors? Read about Hemingway's life and how it compares with the lives of his protagonists. What were Hemingway's attitudes towards
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Novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his novel, The Scarlet Letter, is one of the most analyzed and most elaborate literary works in American Literature for several reasons. Hawthorne’s purpose for chapters 9-12 was to emphasize the good, Dimmesdale, and the evil, Chillingworth, and how their relationship will later affect Hester and Pearl. As Hawthorne uses several rhetorical devices to demonstrate Dimmesdale and Chillingworth relationship, juxtaposition and contrast was incorporated several times
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The morality of Competition Summary about competition often take the form of: Is competition good or bad? This is indeed the way the main contemporary researchers deal with the problem. Is competition good? They answer: No. Is it bad? Yes, in every way, bad psychologically, developmentally, physically, socially, educationally, and productively. But is this really the case? Surely competition is sometimes bad, but is it always bad, or always as bad as it sometimes is? Consider the following
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FICTION ESSAY WRITING STYLE USED: APA OUTLINE I. THESIS: A thorough analysis of Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” reveals that different literary elements, such as tone and setting, are used to convey the characters’ arrival at dark, sinister places. II. INTRODUCTION III. SHIRLEY JACKSON’S “THE LOTTERY” A. Setting the tone: Peaceful and relaxing B. Irony: Even though the mood is relaxing, there is a premonition of something bad to
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audience, especially the interpretation of the scarlet letter A inside of little Pearl. “She resembled…. an infant Pestilence, --the scarlet fever, or some half-fledged angel of judgment,--whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation” (Hawthorne 93). Pearl is somehow stricken to be sin itself, since she born of it. On Hester and Pearl’s trip to the Governor's Hall, Pearl’s red dress is described in great detail, and her obsession with the scarlet letter on Hester’s bosom is displayed.
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Journal #4 (Revised) Throughout the course of “The Scarlet Letter,” Hawthorne hints towards the fact that Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father without ever really giving it away. For example, in Dimmesdale’s first description, Hawthorne says “The young pastor's voice was tremulously sweet, rich, deep, and broken. The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy. Even the
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School of criticism: Feminist criticism (1960’s-present) Tex: The Birthmark, Nathaniel Hawthorne Question 1: What does the work say about women’s creativity? The portrayal of the woman represented in The Birthmark best identifies with the portrayal of women who are taught to deny their creativity and deem it as a social indifference that makes them less than. During this short story we watch as her husband becomes repulsed by the mere sight of his wife’s birthmark. During the beginning of the story
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