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 ultimately dies. When Hester commits adultery, she immediately abandons the strict Puritan ideals of the society that surrounds her. In this theocratic society, where “religion and law were almost identical,” a sin is equivalent to a crime and is therefore severely looked down upon (35). Hester demonstrates her rejection of Puritan
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“experiences sensations... Of burning heat” which perhaps portrays how the letter is used as a form of punishment and which is therefore why one can associate it with heat and fire and burning images. This demonstrates how strong god’s anger was towards Hester Prynne meaning that the letter still burns other people who come across it and pick it up... not just the sinner themself .This can relate to Edward’s Sermon as he says that gods anger “burns like fire” One could read this as a supernatural reading, this
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reaction to adultery. In the novel, the adultery of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale causes Roger Chillingworth, who is the betrayed husband, to react negatively to the events outside of his control, showing that Chillingworth has been removed from his role as the important male figure in his marriage to Hester. Dimmesdale, who is the minister, removes Roger from his legal role as a dominant male figure in Hester’s life by first sleeping with Hester and, later, by continuing the relationship despite
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撰写英语毕业论文是每个英语专业大学生离开校园，走向工作岗位之前必须完成的一项任务。此项任务完成得好坏，顺利与否直接关系到毕业生的按期毕业问题。毕业论文也是对学生进行综合实践训练，培养学生科学研究能力和创新能力，提高学生综合素质的重要环节。因此，笔者认为有必要向学生介绍一些写英语毕业论文的技巧，以便他们能顺利完成此项任务。本文虽然主要介绍如何写英语毕业论文，但从写论文的步骤、方法等方面来看对其他专业的学生也有一定的可借鉴之处。撰写英语毕业论文主要分以下几个阶段：准备、撰写提纲、第一稿、第二稿、第三稿、定稿与答辩。 I. 英语毕业论文准备 学生可以根据本专业教学大纲选定研究范围（英语教育、文学、翻译及外贸等），英语毕业论文选题应符合下列要求： 1.结合专业特点，符合专业培养目标的要求。 2.尽可能与社会实践实际相结合。 3.题目的难度和分量要适当。 在这个阶段学生们遇到的主要问题是如何限定课题范围。最好是课题已在学生脑子里酝酿了好长时间，并且他现在急于将他的思想观点诉诸纸上，与他人分享；最差的是课题由导师布置给他。他应该时刻牢记他要讲有用之词，而不仅仅是
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in the late 1640s in Boston, Massachusetts. In this particular society of puritans there seems to be no room for error. Hester Prynne is the main character whom commits adultery with the Reverend Mr. Arthur Dimmesdale and is forced to wear a scarlet letter upon her bosom. As a result of this sin, a child was born whom Hester named Pearl. When the rest of the town found out, Hester was forced to stand on the scaffold which was right in the middle of the town. She would stand holding little Pearl as
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sphere kind of represents the situation that was a result of the sin committed in the beginning of the novel; the sin of adultery and how the characters can and cannot escape from the situation or rather consequences of this act. In the beginning, Hester is very much isolated from society because of her ‘sin’ of adultery. In many ways, this resulted in her having to sacrifice her place in society. Hawthorne states “Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact
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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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Governor Winthrop died and Dimmesdale stood upon the scaffold, it was said that a faint A could be seen lighting the sky. Finally, as Hester lives out her final days in her cottage so many women look to her for advisory help. Starting on the scaffold so many years ago, stood a woman clutching a baby close to her with a bright letter distinctly upon her breast. Hester withstood this punishment as well as her scarlet A, she was grateful they had not put her to death. The scarlet letter representing
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The Original Sin in The God of Small Things Summary In that enchanted jungle, a divorced, upper-class mother of two children made love with an untouchable Paravan transgressing the boundaries of morality and breaking the law as to who should be loved, how and how much. The God of Small Things, like any masterpiece of literature, has been subjected to myriad interpretations and yet promises more to its readers every time it’s taken off the shelf. This paper seeks to study this maiden work of fiction
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This allusion is created by Hawthorne’s specific emphasis when Dimmesdale insists that Hester should trust his word especially when he says that her lover would be better off confessing today than suffer without hope of redemption all his life, implying that Dimmesdale himself is familiar with the latter option (65). Considering this content
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